This is a great book for primary children. This book talked about the hands of many community members. They used many descriptive words to talk about what they did for work and how they can help our community.

This book could be used for primary level students because it is about jobs in a community in simple words. The book describes some things the job does and then uses it to say what it is after the description.

The author and illustrator did an excellent job of representing diversity throughout the book, from males and females in all the jobs to people of all different races and hair colors to people with physical disabilities to jobs that require varying levels of education. Every kid can relate to someone in this book.

Note: I received a digital review copy of this book through NetGalley. I also received an F&G at an ALA conference. ( )

diverse picture book (preschool/kindergarten ages 3 and up; occupations/community helpers).
* Prominently features diverse characters: yes--there are no main characters, but the cast is ethnically diverse and reflected prominently on the cover; the different jobs have a pretty equal representation of women (and older folks); the potter wears a hearing aid; one of the kids in the classroom has a wheelchair.
* Good choice for preschool storytime - large, colorful illustrations; invites audience to participate by filling in the blank occupation after each set of rhyming clues. Some of the vocab will be new/harder to guess, but that's ok.
* Works for "community" theme. Yep, this would totally work for the preschoolers' "community helpers" theme. ( )

From farmers to doctors, mechanics to police, the rhyming text in this engaging picture-book asks the young reader to identify the community helper being described. Each helper's activities are depicted through word and illustration on one page, with their identity revealed as one flips to the next page. More information about each helper and what they do is given at the rear...

The format and structure of Whose Hands Are These?: A Community Helper Guessing Book make for an engaging and interactive reading process, as the reader or listener is invited to consider who the book might be describing. I can see this working very well at story-time, as the story leader stops at each helper's description, to allow the child attendees to guess who they are. The accompanying mixed media artwork from expatriate Brazilian illustrator Luciana Navarro Powell is colorful and appealing, capturing the essential goodheartedness of the text and what it is describing. I'd recommend this one to picture-book readers and teachers looking for titles about community helpers, and the different occupations that children might find interesting. It could be paired with Brian Biggs' Tinyville Town: Gets to Work!, which also offers a depiction of the different kinds of worker in a community. ( )