Whose Hands Are These?: A Community Helper Guessing Book
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If your hands can mix and mash, what job might you have?
Hands can wiggle, hands can clap.
Hands can wrap and flap and tap.
But hands can help—so raise yours, please!
Can you guess? Whose hands are these?
What if your hands reach, wrench, yank, and crank? The hands in this book—and the people attached to them—do all sorts of helpful work. And together, these helpers make their community a safe and fun place to live.
As you read, keep an eye out for community members who make repeat appearances! Can you guess all the jobs based on the actions of these busy hands?
Miranda Paul is an award-winning children's book author. Her recent books include One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia, a Junior Library Guild selection. She lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, with her husband and two children. Find out more at www.mirandapaul.com and www.oneplasticbag.com.
Luciana Navarro Powell was born in Brazil and worked as a product and graphic designer and before becoming an illustrator. She incorporates watercolor, photographs, and scanned objects into her artwork. She lives with her husband and two children in San Diego, California.
Miranda Paul
Miranda Paul is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books for children, including Right Now!, illustrated by Bea Jackson, Speak Up, illustrated by Ebony Glenn, and Little Libraries, Big Heroes, illustrated by John Parra. She is a founding member of the organization We Need Diverse Books, and lives with her family in Green Bay, Wisconsin. www.mirandapaul.com Twitter: @Miranda_Paul
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Reviews for Whose Hands Are These?
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This lovely little picture book is told in rhyming riddles. It will be a great conversation starter for a unit on community helpers.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5diverse picture book (preschool/kindergarten ages 3 and up; occupations/community helpers).
* Prominently features diverse characters: yes--there are no main characters, but the cast is ethnically diverse and reflected prominently on the cover; the different jobs have a pretty equal representation of women (and older folks); the potter wears a hearing aid; one of the kids in the classroom has a wheelchair.
* Good choice for preschool storytime - large, colorful illustrations; invites audience to participate by filling in the blank occupation after each set of rhyming clues. Some of the vocab will be new/harder to guess, but that's ok.
* Works for "community" theme. Yep, this would totally work for the preschoolers' "community helpers" theme. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From farmers to doctors, mechanics to police, the rhyming text in this engaging picture-book asks the young reader to identify the community helper being described. Each helper's activities are depicted through word and illustration on one page, with their identity revealed as one flips to the next page. More information about each helper and what they do is given at the rear...The format and structure of Whose Hands Are These?: A Community Helper Guessing Book make for an engaging and interactive reading process, as the reader or listener is invited to consider who the book might be describing. I can see this working very well at story-time, as the story leader stops at each helper's description, to allow the child attendees to guess who they are. The accompanying mixed media artwork from expatriate Brazilian illustrator Luciana Navarro Powell is colorful and appealing, capturing the essential goodheartedness of the text and what it is describing. I'd recommend this one to picture-book readers and teachers looking for titles about community helpers, and the different occupations that children might find interesting. It could be paired with Brian Biggs' Tinyville Town: Gets to Work!, which also offers a depiction of the different kinds of worker in a community.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As a teacher, I loved this book. Community helpers and future Careers are often taught in primary grades and this book is another way to introduce that unit. Told in rhyme it entertains. I loved that the illustrations showed both genders in the jobs as well as multi-ethnic persons. Some of the names might be different (ie. physicians vs. doctors) and some unusual in this type of book (architects) but it certainly gives children ample choices to make and introduces what some of the jobs are that are done by various professionals. I recommend this book highly for libraries and for families with young children.
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.