What Makes Hands Beautiful? Blog Tour: Review and Prize Pack Giveaway

Each person has a unique pair of hands. What do you think makes hands beautiful? Raniya and her mom explore possible answers to this question in J.F. Bierlein's picture book What Makes Hands Beautiful?. Enter to win a signed copy along with three other books from the author!

My Review:

Starting with a little girl's curious inquiry, What Makes Hands Beautiful? creates an uplifting and thought-provoking story about love, kindness and diversity.

Wondering if her hands are considered beautiful, Raniya asks her mom what beautiful hands should look like and what makes hands beautiful. Her mom encourages her to think about all the wonderful things hands can do to make them beautiful as well as the diverse ways that beautiful hands may look.

With simple sentences and lively pictures, the book introduces different professions in which hands are used to perform different functions and provide important services. In addition, it suggests various ways hands can be used to offer help and show kindness. Its message regarding how to define beauty is gentle yet clear. Whether hands (and people) are beautiful depends on what they do, regardless of what they look like.

The expressive, gorgeous illustrations completes the story by portraying people from all walks of life in everyday scenarios that young readers can easily relate to. The inclusion of characters with various ethnic, age and gender features corresponds to the book's theme on diversity. Meanwhile, the manner in which the characters interact in the pictures indicates that we should treat one another with care and respect.

Short and sweet, What Makes Hands Beautiful? provides an engaging read to teach about kindness, respect and inner beauty.

About the Book:

Ages: 4-6 | 29 Pages
Publisher: Independently Published (2024) | ISBN: 979-8336568356

In this charming story, a young girl learns from her mother that it is not appearance that makes hands beautiful, but what they do, and the love that motivates the hands. The book is a celebration of the values of kindness, service, and respect for others and their work.

Purchase links: Amazon | Bookshop.org

About the Author:

The author, J.F. Bierlein, is a writer, business coach, consultant, and part-time consultant. His website is jfbierlein.com. Bierlein has written several other books, including Parallel Myths, which has sold more than 100,000 copies, been selected as a textbook, and been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean. During his long and totally fun life, he has worked on Capitol Hill, taught as an Adjunct Professor for 10 years, and worked as a consultant in a wonderful firm for the past 20 years. He loves to travel, especially to Istanbul, and keeps in touch with a wide variety of friends throughout the world. Mr. Bierlein is also the Chair of the Monte Azul Foundation, which supports sustainable agriculture and youth employment and training in rural Puerto Rico. For more information, check out jfbierlein.com.

About the Illustrator:

Houda Zahid is a Strategic Life Coach, Udemy/MOCC course creator, Arabic, French, and English language coach, and graphic designer based in Casablanca, Morocco. She is the mother of Raniya and Isla, both primary school children, who helped inspire this book. She loves traveling and has been to many countries around the world. She also has a big passion for swimming.

One lucky Grand Prize winner will receive a signed set of JF Bierlein’s books, including What Makes Hands Beautiful?, Parallel Myths, Kindness Matters, and the upcoming River Stones!

Nine additional winners will each receive a signed copy of What Makes Hands Beautiful!

Giveaway ends 1/4/25. Open worldwide. Please enter below. Good luck!

What Makes Hands Beautiful: Book Giveaway

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by the J.F. Bierlein. All views and opinions expressed are my own. icefairy's Treasure Chest is not responsible for winner selection or prize fulfillment.