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In this encouraging, reassuring picture book, National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins invokes the Indian custom of namaste, meaning I bow to you, to show how little hands are capable of great love.

What's between your hands
when you namaste the world?

Maya is only three days into summer vacation and already bored. Outside her window, the street is full of neighbors. Coming and going. Earning and spending. Fixing and mending. Everyone has something to doeveryone's hands are busy.

Except Maya's. When she opens her palms, they are empty. They are small.

What in the world can her hands do?

As Maya longs to do something useful alongside her neighborsproclaim truth, stand for justice, or show mercyshe discovers that children like her can give the greatest gift of all: love.

Between My Hands

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    A Hardback by Mitali Perkins

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Published 10/14/2024
      ISBN-13 9780374388980
      978-0374388980
      ISBN-10 0374388989

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In this encouraging, reassuring picture book, National Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins invokes the Indian custom of namaste, meaning I bow to you, to show how little hands are capable of great love.

      What's between your hands
      when you namaste the world?

      Maya is only three days into summer vacation and already bored. Outside her window, the street is full of neighbors. Coming and going. Earning and spending. Fixing and mending. Everyone has something to doeveryone's hands are busy.

      Except Maya's. When she opens her palms, they are empty. They are small.

      What in the world can her hands do?

      As Maya longs to do something useful alongside her neighborsproclaim truth, stand for justice, or show mercyshe discovers that children like her can give the greatest gift of all: love.

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