The Handiest Things In The World - Andrew Clements

The Handiest Things In The World

By: Andrew Clements, Raquel Jaramillo (Illustrator)

Hardcover | 1 June 2010

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Give hands a hand! Master storyteller and bestselling author Andrew Clements encourages children to think about a very handy tool-THEIR HANDS.

Ten fingers, two thumbs, two flat palms and all those knuckles-but our hands are so much more. Ear-muffs. A sun visor. A convenient pair of chop sticks. Cupped together, hands are a perfect bowl for scooping water or rinsing berries. Held up in the air, hands are an easy way to flag down some attention-or swat away a fly. Told in rhyme and illustrated with vibrant photographs, this simple concept book gives a real 'hand' to hands and reminds us all that work done by hands centuries and centuries ago has paved the way for many of our favourite and most useful tools-brooms, fans, buckets and rulers, just to name a few.

It turns out, the mother of invention is right at our fingertips.

About The Author

Andrew Clements is the author of the enormously popular Frindle. He has been nominated for a multitude of state awards and has won the Christopher Award and an Edgar Award. His popular works include Extra Credit, Lost And Found, No Talking, Room One, Lunch Money, A Week In The Woods, The Jacket, The School Story, The Janitor's Boy, The Landry News, The Report Card and The Last Holiday Concert. Mr. Clements taught in the public schools near Chicago for seven years before moving East to begin a career in publishing and writing. He lives with his wife in central Massachusetts and has four grown children.

About The Illustrator

Raquel Jaramillo is a designer and photographer. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Industry Reviews
This unusual concept book looks at all the things that hands can do and the tools that help do them better. On a typical double-page spread, two short rhyming sentences are paired with photos. The first shows achild’s hands performing a job, while the next shows them using a tool. The tool may be named (a child mixes batter in a bowl, accompanied by the text, “Sticky fingers make a mess. / Mixers make the mess much less”), but usually it is referred to by pronoun, creating a simple name-the-object game, as in “Tidy is the way to be. / This will help enormously.” In the first picture, a girl untangles her hair with her fingers; in the next, with a comb. A bit longer, more complex, and less predictable than most picture books presenting concepts, this may appeal to somewhat older kids as well as preschoolers. Excellent color photos of different children engaged in everyday activities enhance the book’s appeal. — Carolyn Phelan, BOOKLIST, March 1, 2010

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