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Hands Can

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It's a beautiful example of how some wonderful words can sing with amazing photography of children. The layout of the book is bold & bright and an instant eyecatcher. The photos capture the joy of the children as if you were right there with them. My 3 year old loves to follow along & point out all the activities on the pages. Just great! Highly recommended!

A MUST for all children's libraries! I bought this book for my now 4-year-old when she was 18-months. She loved it then and has continued to enjoy it to this day. Now that she's a preschooler, she enjoys "acting it out." My 21-month-old has loved this book since she was around 8-months-old and she's very picky, but has always especially enjoyed books with pictures of kids and babies. I can remember her crawling across the floor to get to this book! The title was one of her first 2-word sentences. She, too, loves to act it out and we all know it so well we can sit around the dinner table and recite it together word for word.

We actually checked this book out from the library, and while I didn't think my 16-month-old daughter would be super impressed with this book, she proved me wrong. For the past 2 weeks, it's the book she demands to be read to her very first, before all other books. If it looks like she's not in the mood for book time, all I have to do is get this book out and she will instantly calm down and sit still for every single page. She loves mimicing the pictures: smearing finger paints, giving hugs, pat-a-cake, peek-a-boo, and waving hello and goodbye. She loves pointing to all the hands she can find, and since reading this book, she has taken a very keen interest in hands and fingers, which leads us to be able to practice counting our fingers. I would recommend this book to anyone, it's sure to be a favorite!

"Hands can clap while voices sing. Hands can do all kinds of things." Hands Can, by author Cheryl Willis Hudson and photographer John-Francis Bourke, is a celebration of the wonder of little hands.

Hands Can describes and shows children using their hands in a variety of activities. It also shows a variety of hands. There are girl hands, boy hands, toddler hands, "big-kid" hands and hands of many races.

Young children will love Hands Can, with its simple, rhyming text, bright colors and delightful photographs depicting children having fun with their hands. They will want to wave hello like the little boy in beginning of the story. They will want to play Peekaboo like the little girl near the end. They will want to read this book again and again.

This is a wonderful book with lots of pictures showing kids doing all kinds of activities like playing ball, planting seeds, etc...and the text is easy to follow for my 14-month old son. He LOVES this book and will go through a huge box of books to find this and will then come sit on my lap so I can read it to him for the 100th time that day. Get this book - it's very kid-friendly.

We bought this book for our 21 month old daughter. She hasn't taken to it yet, and I can't decide if it's too simple, or if she just isn't interested. I think it would have been better to read this to her at an earlier age. She currently likes books that are geared for older children.

I have never reviewed anything on Amazon, but my daughter's reaction to this book is definitely worth documenting! I bought it a long time ago- before my 15 month old daughter was even born. I recently pulled it off the shelf for her (she is moving out of the board-books-only phase.) I am amazed how much she loves it! She brings it to us to read multiple times a day. She wants to go through the pages over and over, looking at kids as they do all of her favorite things... paint, throw balls, wave hi, clap, sing, etc. It is mesmerizing for her. I love how positive the book is about all of the things kids can do. Very highly recommended!

The book is fun to read and the pictures are amazing, my two year old daugther loves it!!

The photos are very real and keep the attention of the toddlers. The book is not wordy and has a nice rhythm to it. Great for visual learners as well as a pre-school class circle time.

The image on the front of this book reminded me of one of my favorite childhood books, so I purchased it for my niece. It will be an easy read for beginning readers, when she is a little older; and I found the pictures to be beautiful and captivating.