Hands

Hands
By: Lois Ehlert
Copyright: 1997
Pages: 20
Reading Level: 4-8

Fun, interactive book, with photographs of vintage everyday objects. Its fun because as she is talking about gardening you are turning the page which is in the shape of a garden glove. Its a simple story of a child learning how to use her hands, which different tools and to do different things. She helps both her father and mother, and decides that one day she wants to be an artist. This book is super fun because the whole book is in the shape of a work glove, and then when you open it up each page is different. Some pages you lift up or open up to the side, so as a child reads it they too are using there hands exploring the pages.

Recommended to: Children ages 4 and up, its some what delicate. As even the copy in our library has some tape repair on it. I can see it easily being destroyed in the hands of a young child.
Problems: It kind of assumes the roles of parents are the mother sews and the father builds things.
My reaction: I really liked it, the vintage look makes it a very hip book. I also really liked the concept of it, and love any book with flip up pages and hidden surprises.