My Hands Make the World

Night and day, land and sea, birds and animals . . . it’s amazing what these hands can make! Through handprints, finger paints, and child-friendly language, this book retells the ancient story of Creation while encouraging young readers to celebrate their own capacity to imagine and create.\n“This brief but eloquent book for young children traces the link between the creation of the world and a child’s feelings about her own artistic productivity. The reader follows two small handprints dipped in paint as they bring new forms of life into being, just as God did in the book of Genesis….The simplicity of the book is appealing, and it offers a different entry point for children’s understanding of how the world came to be….Even the youngest reader can become involved in the act of creating a world.” – Emily Schneider for the Jewish Book Council, July 19, 2022