Hands Can

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Hands Can by Cheryl Willis Hudson is a delightful children's book that explores all the wonderful things hands can do. Through simple and engaging text paired with vibrant illustrations, it celebrates the various activities hands are capable of, making it an enjoyable read for young children fascinated by discovery and learning.
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Format: Board book
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This delightful children's book may appeal to you if you cherish stories that celebrate the power and potential of little hands. Through vibrant illustrations and simple, rhythmic text, it encourages young readers to explore the numerous wonderful things their hands can do, fostering creativity and self-discovery.

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Hands Can

Rhyming text and eye-catching, full-color photos invite readers to discover the many things their hands can do in this colorful board book. Full color.

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Hands can do all kinds of things! A rhyming text with eye-catching colour photos offers just the encouragement young children need to explore their world — hands on.

Hands can hold things.
Hands can mould things.
Hands can catch
and hands can throw.

Hands can do much more, of course — wave hello and goodbye, play peekaboo, touch things, clap, even tie a shoe. For the very young, hands are a never-ending source of discovery and a means of mastery in an ever-unfolding world.

With singsong rhythm, simple design, and alluring colour photos of toddlers, Hands Can invites the littlest readers to discover the many things hands can do.

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Hands Can is praised for providing children with an engaging way to explore the world through their hands. It's described as an inviting book that encourages repeated reading and offers a sensory experience for young readers.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780763632922

Publisher: Candlewick Press,U.S.

Format: Board book

Date Published: 13 March 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: Candlewick Press,U.S.

Illustration: 4-COLOR

Contributors:

  • Photographs by John-Francis Bourke

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 176.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 323g

Pages: 24

About the Author

Cheryl Willis Hudson is the author of a dozen books for children, including Bright Eyes, Brown Skin (coauthored with Bernette G. Ford) and Come by HereLord: Everyday Prayers for Children. She says that Hands Can was inspired by her own children. "I was amazed by the versatility, dexterity, utility, and even gracefulness of such small fingers," she says. "I began to see hands as marvelous works of art, and I wanted to somehow capture that vision in a children’s book."

John-Francis Bourke was born in Dublin, Ireland, and now works in New York City. His photographs have been published in GQTV GuideESPN The MagazineNick Jr.Parenting, and Parents. He says, "Photographing people provides me with a constant stream of new faces, new words, new conversation - it never gets old. Photographing children gives you all that, plus innocence and curiosity. Wonderful!" This is his first book for children.

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