Your Amazing Hands: A Training Young Hearts Rhyming Book

by Abbey Wedgeworth, Emma Randall (Illustrator)

Overview

This charming rhyming book celebrates God’s good design for our hands, motivating children aged 3+ to use their hands to glorify God.  

Children will be inspired by all the creative and interesting things their hands can do—they can even use them to bring comfort and joy to others! They’ll discover that Jesus had hands just like ours and that he always used his hands in the most amazing ways, including to save us. 

Not only that: the way that Jesus used his hands means that we can be forgiven when we use our hands in the wrong way. Children are invited to pray for forgiveness when they make mistakes, and for help to use their hands in the ways God intends. The book’s fun rhyming style and colorful illustrations make it easy to engage with this life-altering message of repentance, forgiveness, and grace-fueled obedience. 

Your Amazing Hands is part of the Training Young Hearts series, which consists of board books for toddlers as well as rhyming books for children over 3. All the books in the series train young hearts through the gospel, both by showing Jesus as an example and by explaining how his grace enables us to change. Parents, teachers and other loved ones can refer back to these resources when specific behaviours need to be both corrected and connected to forgiveness, grace and growth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784989699
Publisher:	The Good Book Company
Publication date:	06/01/2024
Series:	Training Young Hearts
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	278,862
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.35(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Abbey Wedgeworth is a wife, mother, and writer. The author of Held and the Training Young Hearts series, she is passionate about discipleship and Bible literacy, and loves to see the way that the gospel transforms how people think and live. Abbey lives on the South Carolina coast with her husband, David, and their three children.

Emma Randall is a freelance illustrator specializingspecializing in children’s illustration, including the hugely popular Diary of a Disciple. She lives with her family near Bristol, UK.

Editorial Reviews

If you've parented a toddler, you've probably found yourself saying something like, "Hands are for helping, not hitting." We know what it means to teach our children to use their hands to serve and help rather than harm. Abbey Wedgeworth has written a beautiful book that frames this instruction in light of the Bible's redemptive story. It will help your kids see that God is the one who made our hands and forgives us when we use them wrongly. His Spirit empowers us to use hands for his redemptive purposes! (Pastor of Families

I adore how Abbey has brought her distinctive, gospel-centered encouragement and equipping to this series! Your Amazing Hands is a fun, engaging read that kids and caregivers will reach for often. They’ll find themselves slowly shaped to use their hands in a way that esteems the way Christ used his hands—to save us and bring us to himself.

Caroline Saunders (Author

The Training Young Hearts board books will help parents encourage positive behavior through one of the most effective methods of learning—play! These engaging books will not only instruct kids but parents too, by equipping both with training refrains based in biblical truths. Abbey has provided us with an incredible tool to help us clearly and intentionally communicate with our kiddos in a way that points to them to Jesus.

Hunter Beless (Founder and Host

The Training Young Hearts series is a favorite in our family. Abbey Wedgeworth packages big truths in bite-sized, understandable refrains that impact the hearts of children and their parents!

Gretchen Saffles (Founder

A delightfully creative and insightful book that teaches our kids that Christianity is not just about behavior change, but heart change, too.

J.D. Greear (J.D. Greear is the pastor at The Summit Church)

This series can help our littlest ones to use their senses for Jesus. Hallelujah!

Ed Drew (Ministry Director

One of the most important ways we can train young children is to teach them what is right as well as teach them what is wrong. In the Training Young Hearts series Abbey Wedgeworth faithfully shows children how to live while also telling them the good news of God’s grace. These board books are such an engaging (and fun!) way to teach big truths to young hearts.

Melissa B Kruger (Women’s Ministry Coordinator

Simplifying biblical truth for children takes a lot of hard work, and Abbey has done it creatively, faithfully, and accessibly. Your Amazing Hands will help children to see the wonderful gospel story—and help parents to see gospel opportunities in everyday situations.

Jane Watkins (Director of Mentoring

I love the Training Young Hearts series for kids. These are concrete, practical, gospel-centered books that will help young children make meaningful connections. What great resources for parents and educators!

David Thomas (Therapist and best-selling author of Raising Emotionally Strong Boys and Are My Kids o

I am incredibly excited about these new books from Abbey Wedgeworth. Engaging, helpful, and full of truth, these books are sure to become a favorite in your home!

Laura Wifler (Cofounder