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Handy hands. What a unique tool! Explore the hand from a range of expected and unexpected aspects.
Did you know that sign language varies from country to country? Have you ever wondered why some of us are left-handed while others are right-handed? Can you imagine how the hand of a sculptor differs from that of a pianist or a bricklayer?
Sure you can't applaud with one hand, but there are still many things you can manage with just one hand. Find out in this book with original design and tactile cover.
Selected for the CBC’s 2022 November Hot Off The Press Reading List
"I wear a hand around my neck on a necklace. It's called a hamsa and the hand has always been a significant symbol to me that seems to symbolically speak to my soul and the essence of who I am. I am completely besotted with this book and it is exponentially expanding my love of the hand." —Librarian, Neill Public Library
Magda Gargulakova has a degree in Art History and is a co-founder and also curator of the OFF/FORMAT gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, which exhibits and promotes contemporary progressive art, mostly by young artists. She worked for a time in marketing, but her love affair with books has been a long one. For OFF/FORMAT, she has edited and published several art publications. Since 2019, she has added to this experience as an editor of literature for very young readers at Albatros Media, using her two daughters for quality control.
Glossary
Hands . . .
Are unique
Leave fingerprints
Have anatomies
Can do many things
Hold
Give & cooperate
Rest
Touch
Feel & recognize
Show your age
Communicate
Communicate verbally & nonverbally
Speak
Make gestures
Say how we feel
Make signals
Greet
Can replace eyes
Can replace ears & mouth
Create
Destroy
Can by famous
Belong to animals too
Evolved
Work with the brain
Are either left or right
Can get into trouble
Have different professions
Are used to measure
Are symbols
Get depicted
Can be decorated
Can have rings & accessories
Can use sticks
Can get injured
Can be replaced
Need good hygiene
Shouldn’t do certain things