Between My Hands

· Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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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 do—everyone’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 neighbors—proclaim truth, stand for justice, or show mercy—she discovers that children like her can give the greatest gift of all: love.
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 v...

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Mitali Perkins has written many award-winning books for young readers, including her first picture book, Between Us and Abuela, which was a Charlotte Huck Honor Book, an ALSC and NCSS Notable Book, and a winner of the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Her second picture book, Home Is in Between, received several starred reviews and was an NCSS and CLA Notable Book. Between My Hands marks the third book in her “Between” collection, which helps children explore the space between themselves and the world around them. Mitali was born in India and currently resides in Northern California.

Naveen Selvanathan is a visual-development artist specializing in illustration and game and movie concept art. Naveen was born and raised in India and was always interested in art as a child. He eventually moved to San Francisco to pursue his master’s in fine art at Academy of Art University. He has worked with Disney Interactive Studios, Sony Pictures Animation, and DreamWorks Animation and has contributed to movie franchises such as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Hotel Transylvania, and Puss in Boots. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California.

Mitali Perkins has written many award-winning books for young readers, including her first picture book, Between Us and Abuela, which was a Charlotte Huck Honor Book, an ALSC and NCSS Notable Book, and a winner of the Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Her second picture bo...

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