Hands Up!

By Breanna J. McDaniel

Book Overview

This triumphant picture book celebrates Black joy by reclaiming a charged phrase and showing readers how resistance can be part of their everyday lives.

A young Black girl lifts her baby hands up to greet the sun, reaches her hands up for a book on a high shelf, and raises her hands up in praise at a church service. She stretches her hands up high like a plane's wings and whizzes down a hill so fast on her bike with her hands way up. As she grows, she lives through everyday moments of joy, love, and sadness. And when she gets a little older, she joins together with her family and her community in a protest march, where they lift their hands up together in resistance and strength.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593326644
• ISBN13: 9780593326640
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.9" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3