Elisabeth Moseng

Super Senses! Fun Facts About Your Senses

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Did you know that you can see and hear better when you’re in love? You can even run faster! That’s because being in love sharpens all your senses. The same thing happens when you’re scared.

Why can’t you see your own nose, even though it’s right in front of your eyes? And why can you get used to the smell of stinky feet?

Did you know that birds can see more colours than we can? Or that grasshoppers have ears on their knees?

Super Senses is packed with weird, funny and fascinating facts about our senses.

Elisabeth Moseng (born 1967) studied Visual Communication at Westerdals (Oslo), illustration and design at Kingston University in London, and completed her studies at the Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books in 2019. She has illustrated children’s books for 25 years and been awarded several prizes. Moseng has previously written and illustrated several picture books, and she is a member of the association Norwegian Writers for Children (NBU).