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Whose hands are these? : a community helper guessing book / Miranda Paul ; illustrations by Luciana Navarro Powell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Millbrook Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781467752145
  • 1467752142
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Lively rhyming clues introduce various jobs that hands can do from cooking pizza to bandaging a scraped knee, and prompt readers to guess which community helpers are being portrayed.Summary: Asks young readers to identify the occupation of each community helper from the type of tasks they perform and explains how these helpers work together to keep communities clean and safe and people healthy.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 331.7 P324 Available 33111011338114
Total holds: 0

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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.

Lively rhyming clues introduce various jobs that hands can do from cooking pizza to bandaging a scraped knee, and prompt readers to guess which community helpers are being portrayed.

Asks young readers to identify the occupation of each community helper from the type of tasks they perform and explains how these helpers work together to keep communities clean and safe and people healthy.

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