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A charming rhyming book that celebrates God’s good design for our hands, motivating children aged 3+ to use their hands to glorify God.
Part of the Training Young Hearts series.
This charming rhyming book celebrates God’s good design for our hands, motivating children aged 3+ to use their hands to glorify God.
Children will be inspired by all the creative and interesting things their hands can do—they can even use them to bring comfort and joy to others! They’ll discover that Jesus had hands just like ours and that he always used his hands in the most amazing ways, including to save us.
Not only that: the way that Jesus used his hands means that we can be forgiven when we use our hands in the wrong way. Children are invited to pray for forgiveness when they make mistakes, and for help to use their hands in the ways God intends. The book’s fun rhyming style and colorful illustrations make it easy to engage with this life-altering message of repentance, forgiveness, and grace-fueled obedience.
Your Amazing Hands is part of the Training Young Hearts series, which consists of board books for toddlers as well as rhyming books for children over 3. All the books in the series train young hearts through the gospel, both by showing Jesus as an example and by explaining how his grace enables us to change. Parents, teachers, and other loved ones can refer back to these resources when specific behaviors need to be both corrected and connected to forgiveness, grace, and growth.
| Age range: | 3+ |
|---|---|
| Contributors | Abbey Wedgeworth, Emma Randall |
| ISBN | 9781784989699 |
| Format | Hardback |
| First published | June 2024 |
| Dimensions | 8.3" x 8.3" x 0.4" |
| Weight | 11.75 oz |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 32 |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
The Training Young Hearts series is a favorite in our family. Abbey Wedgeworth packages big truths in bite-sized, understandable refrains that impact the hearts of children and their parents!
If you've parented a toddler, you've probably found yourself saying something like, "Hands are for helping, not hitting." We know what it means to teach our children to use their hands to serve and help rather than harm. Abbey Wedgeworth has written a beautiful book that frames this instruction in light of the Bible's redemptive story. It will help your kids see that God is the one who made our hands and forgives us when we use them wrongly. His Spirit empowers us to use hands for his redemptive purposes!
I adore how Abbey has brought her distinctive, gospel-centered encouragement and equipping to this series! Your Amazing Hands is a fun, engaging read that kids and caregivers will reach for often. They’ll find themselves slowly shaped to use their hands in a way that esteems the way Christ used his hands—to save us and bring us to himself.
This book is for kids 3 and up and I LOVE IT. I like how it talks about how our hands can be used to do good or do bad, especially for this age. My little one knows what the word hands means and sometimes he is known to hit, so I love talking about this with him right now.
I also like how this book has a Christ focus and talks about what Jesus did with His hands and how our hands are good because God created them.
I would definitely recommend this one for your littles.
@abbeywedgeworth knocks it out of the park with this sweet book about how our hands can be amazing. This is the first hardcover picture book from Training Young Hearts. Abby has 4 other books geared towards toddlers while this one is towards the preschool/early elementary age.
While the books talks about how amazing our hands are it also points to how they can go against what God says. With rhyming and gorgeous illustrations me and my kids both loved this book. We also saw how Jesus used his hands here on earth to heal, serve and wash feet. It’s a beautiful reminder of how we can use our hands for the glory of God.
I have seen Abbey Wedgeworth's lift-the-flap toddler books in the "Training Young Hearts" series all over Instagram. My youngest son is 3, so I wanted to avoid investing in new board books. When I saw that Abbey had written a rhyming picture book in the same series, I was very excited to read it with my kids.
This book is set to become a staple in our home. With four young boys who are highly physical, I am constantly looking for practical ways to teach them how to act. There's no better example than Jesus, and I love how Abbey shows how Jesus used HIS hands.
On the surface, this may look like a simple, sweet book. But it goes much deeper than most Christian children's books, and I am so impressed. For a book about hands, I am blown away by the beautifully clear gospel message aimed at preschoolers. The gospel is presented not only clearly but practically. Even the basics of repentance and sanctification are touched on in a very age-appropriate way.
The illustrations by Emma Randall are bright and engaging.
I HIGHLY recommend this book for all Christian families and classrooms. You will revisit it again and again.
This book is part of the Training Young Hearts series. I've had the privilege of reading all their board books and they are absolutely wonderful for young kids. This book is a level up from the board books. It is still written for young children but adds a fun rhyming element along with more descriptive words.
I especially appreciate that Abbey lays out the entire Gospel in this book. She transitions so well from discussing the beauty and difficulties of our hands to Christ dying on the cross for our sins and renewing our hearts and minds to use our hands as He pleases.
Young children will not only enjoy the fun rhythmic writing, but also be able to comprehend the truth of Christ and what He has done for us.
The illustrations are also quite engaging. Many pages depict a young child(ren) utilizing their hands in beautiful ways (some non-beautiful ways as well). We also see depictions of Christ and the cross.
My only wish is that Wedgeworth would have included a list of fun activities for parents to do with their kids or a section of Scriptures that reveal the importance of our hands and/or Christ's sacrifice on the cross for parents to read and expand on with their kids. Providing these simple additional resources would have been a great bonus to the overall book.
I received a copy of this book from The Good Book Company in exchange for an honest review.
I've really enjoyed using the Training Young Hearts books with children, explaining how our hands, eyes and more can lead us to understand who we are and what God is like. This is a version for slightly older children with rhyming lines and it's a lovely addition to the series explaining how our hands can remind us of Jesus and what he has done!
