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Posted on: July 9, 2019

With My Hands: Poems About Making Things

With My Hands

by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater; pictures by Lou Fancher and Steve Johnson

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.

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