Book Review of Your Five Senses: Your Superpowers (Super You Series™)
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Your Five Senses: Your Superpowers (Super You Series™)
Written by Manal El-Ramly
Illustrated by Erica Bortoloso
Ages: 3-7 | 36 Pages
Publisher: Mattain Publishing, LLC (2026) | ISBN: 979-8-9893859-6-6
What to Expect: The five senses, sensory awareness, mindfulness, body awareness, and curiosity.
Your Five Senses: Your Superpower is a gentle introduction to a child’s senses, inviting them to discover their own built-in superpowers by simply slowing down and paying attention.
Part of the Super You Series™, this book takes a broad, foundational approach to exploring sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, and a mysterious sixth sense that ties them all together. Rather than following a single moment or event, the book invites readers to notice the sensory world around them—and the world within their own bodies—as an ongoing practice of awareness rather than a one-time discovery. It’s less a story to follow and more an experience to step into, page by page.
Manal El-Ramly writes with beautiful sensory language that encourages children to actively participate in the reading rather than passively listen. She prompts young readers to notice and seek out details in the illustrations and in their own surroundings. She introduces a “secret sixth sense” that adds an intriguing layer that gently nudges children toward finding a connection between sensation and feeling. The result is a text that feels less like instruction and more like an invitation to slow down and tune in.
Bortoloso’s illustrations use movement and flow to represent intangible sensations such as scent and sound visually. The soft, sketch-like, anime-inspired style keeps the pages feeling calm and unhurried, and the visual cues embedded throughout reward readers who linger and search, as the text encourages them to.
Ideal for read-aloud time, Your Five Senses: Your Superpower is a soothing, interactive pick for parents, caregivers, and educators looking to build body awareness and mindfulness in young children, helping little ones to start noticing their own superpowers with every page turn.
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About the Author
Manal El-Ramly is the creator of the Yara Universe™ and The Super You Series™, a collection of children’s picture books that invite young readers to slow down, experience the world with wonder, and trust their own inner knowing. Through imaginative storytelling and everyday adventures, her stories help children remember the superpowers they were born with: presence, curiosity, self-worth, and inner knowing.
A TEDx speaker, Insight Timer teacher, and author of Transcending Anxiety: From Fear to Freedom, Manal is known for making profound ideas simple, relatable, and practical for everyday life. With The Super You Series™, she brings that philosophy to children—creating stories that nurture presence, self-trust, and emotional confidence from an early age. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her family.
For more information, visit www.mattain.me/superyouseries.
About the Illustrator
Erica Bortoloso is an Italian children’s book illustrator and character designer whose expressive watercolor illustrations capture the wonder, imagination, and heart of the Yara Universe™.
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