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Hands Like Daddy's: A Picture Book for Kids Whose Dads Build, Fix, and Hold the World
Hardcover
Series: Hands Like..., Book 1
FamilyGeneral Juvenile FictionHoliday
Publisher: Cordis House
Published: Jun 15 2026
Pages: 50
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Before the sun, a truck pulls out. And somewhere across town, hands are at work, fixing, building, mending. Hands like Daddy's.
A picture book for the kids who hear the truck before anyone else. Whose dads come home with worn boots and rough hands. Whose own small hands will, someday, fix and build and hold the world too.
Across fourteen tender spreads, follow a young child through a single day, from the pre-dawn ache of waiting in bed, through the trades that hold the world together (plumber, carpenter, electrician, roofer, HVAC, mason), to the homecoming embrace and the bedtime promise: hands like Daddy's worked all day. Hands like Daddy's. Home to stay.
Written by Ron Smith, who grew up in his family's HVAC business and has spent his career advising owners of family-run businesses, this is a bedtime book for trades families everywhere.
Book One of the Hands Like... series from Cordis House.
For children ages 3-7. A read-aloud favorite for working dads and the kids who wait for them at the door.
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