Maya is only three days into summer vacation and already bored. Outside her window, the street is full of neighbors. Coming and going. Earning and spending. Fixing and mending. Everyone has something to do--everyone's hands are busy. Except Maya's. When she opens her palms, they are empty. They are small. What in the world can her hands do? As Maya longs to do something useful alongside her neighbors--proclaim truth, stand for justice, or show mercy--she...

Animals present hand slapping skills to readers, just in time for the annual high five contest.

A little girl, baking bread with her grandmother, becomes transported by the tales her grandmother's hands tell -- those that spring from the rose-painted nails, a flower-banded wedding ring, and the way her fingers move and glide. These hands have many tales to tell. But only if you listen.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text reveal that hands, as they carry out ordinary tasks, are also showing love.

Photographs and simple, rhyming text present different things that hands can do, such as hold things, mix things, and wave goodbye.

This is my hand. It can do all sorts of things. Most of the time it does good things, but sometimes ... Kitamura introduces us to the wonders of something as simple as your hand - it can push, it can pull. It can paint, it can pat. And when your hand has a bad habit, it can pick your nose! Award-winning author and illustrator Satoshi Kitamura unfolds a wonderful celebration of the simple hand, also starring a favourite Kitamura character, Boots the...

Celebrates in verse, accompanied by photographs, the many things hands can do.

Young children describe the various things their hands and their mothers' hands do when they are together throughout the different seasons of the year.

"In this ode to family, the young narrator compares the hands of family members to plants in the natural world. She promises to give back all the love they have always given her"-- En este libro bilingüe imagen conmovedora, el joven narrador compara manos de miembros de la familia de plantas en el mundo natural y amorosamente representa los lazos familiares.

"Little Hamster learns to use his hands for playing with his friends instead of hitting them"--Front jacket flap.