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📖 The Kissing Hand Series

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👤 Author
Audrey Penn
📚 Genre
Fiction
🎯 Interest Level
LG
📊 ATOS Book Level
2.7
🔢 Quiz No.
30793
📝 Word Count
492
🔗 Series
Kissing Hand/Tales of Chester Raccoon;
🏷️ Topic
Character Traits-Caring; Community Life-School; Emotions-Fear; Emotions-Love; Life Experiences-Growing Up; People-Daughters, Sons, & Nonbinary Offspring; People-Parents & Parental Figures;

🌟 Recommendation Details

The Kissing Hand is an American children's picture book written by Audrey Penn and illustrated by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak. It features a mother raccoon comforting a child raccoon by kissing its paw. Since it was published, it has been used "to reassure children upset by separation anxiety." The National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children." It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal. It has been translated into at least five languages and has been followed by several sequels.

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