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Here Are My Hands

Name: Here Are My Hands
Author: John Archambault, Bill Martin, Ted Rand
ISBN: 9780833547484

by John Archambault, Bill Martin, Ted Rand

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Overview

Ideally suited to the board-book format, Here Are My Hands invites very young children to respond spontaneously and creatively as they learn the parts of the body. The rhyming text and bold illustrations do more than name the eyes, ears, nose, and toes. By featuring children of many different backgrounds, the book quietly celebrates the commonality of people around the world.

Owners of human bodies celebrate them by pointing out various parts and mentioning their functions, from "hands for catching and throwing" to the "skin that bundles me in."

About the Author, John Archambault, Bill Martin, Ted Rand

Bill Martin ,Jr., John Archambault, and illustrator Ted Rand have collaborated on several successful picture books, including The Ghost-Eye Tree, Barn Dance!, and Knots on a Counting Rope. Mr. Martin and Mr. Archambault also wrote Listen to the Rain and The Magic Pumpkin.

Visit Bill Martin Jr his web site: www.billmartinjr.com

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Editorials

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

winning collaboration, which portrays assorted body parts and their uses. Ages 2-6. (Oct.)

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot

The conversion to board book works quite well for this introduction to body parts. The rhyming text is accompanied by Rand's bold illustrations of a delightful collection of kids. It is a book that kids and caregivers will read many times. Little ones will soon be pointing to the right places on the pictures and then their own bodies. 1998 (orig.

School Library Journal

PreS A delightfully simple book of rhymes about parts of the body: ``Here is my head /for thinking and knowing. /Here is my nose /for smelling and blowing.'' The book includes hands, feet, head, nose, eyes, ears, knees, neck, cheeks, teeth, arm, and finally the ``skin /that bundles me in.'' A colorful double-page picture of a child showing the part of the body featured accompanies each rhyme. These are expressive and simple, and include children of various races and both sexes. Even though the featured part is sometimes lost in the gutter of the book, this is an enjoyable offering that should find its way into toddler story hours, nursery schools, and many children's hands. Nancy A. Gifford, Schenectady County Public Lib . , N.Y.