About this item
For young makers and artists, brief, lively poems illustrated by a NYT bestselling duo celebrate the pleasures of working with your hands.Building, baking, folding, drawing, shaping . . . making something with your own hands is a special, personal experience. Taking an idea from your imagination and turning it into something real is satisfying and makes the maker proud.With My Hands is an inspiring invitation to tap into creativity and enjoy the hands-on energy that comes from making things.
About the Author
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater is author of children's books including FOREST HAS A SONG (Clarion) , EVERY DAY BIRDS (Scholastic) , READ! READ! READ! (WordSong) , DREAMING OF YOU (Boyds Mills Press) , WITH MY HANDS: POEMS ABOUT MAKING THINGS (Clarion) , WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! (Wordsong) , THAT MISSING FEELING (Magination) and the forthcoming IF THIS BIRD HAD POCKETS: A POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY CELEBRATION (Wordsong, March 2022) . She is also author of POEMS ARE TEACHERS: HOW STUDYING POETRY STRENGTHENS WRITING IN ALL GENRES (Heinemann) and co-author, with Lucy Calkins and Stephanie Parsons, of POETRY: BIG THOUGHTS IN SMALL PACKAGES (Heinemann) . A former upper grade teacher, Amy received her MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, has taught writing for over twenty years, and blogs at The Poem Farm and Sharing Our Notebooks. Amy lives in Holland, NY with her family, pets, and books. Find her at www.amyludwigvanderwater.com (website) , www.poemfarm.amylv.com (blog) , www.sharingournotebooks.com (blog) , and on Twitter and Instagram at @amylvpoemfarm.
