my love for children's books grows as i have found a new one for the book shelf...i find it amazing how children's books can relate to us as adults...for example...the kissing hand, by audrey penn tells the story of a little raccoon, chester who is afraid to leave home to go to school...so his mother plants a kiss in his hand and explains that she will always be with him no matter what & that if he takes his hand & presses it to his cheek, it as if she is there with him...chester feels better and heads to school...and at the end the roles are reverse...chester grows up and is ready to leave his mom...so...
"chester took his mother's hand in his own & unfolded her large, familiar fingers into a fan. next, he leaned forward and kissed the center of her hand."
"now you have a kissing hand too," he told her. and with a gentle "good -bye," and "i love you," chester turned and danced away."
mrs. raccoon watched chester scamper across a tree limb and enter school. and as the hoot owl rang in the new school year, she pressed her left hand to her cheek and smiled. the warmth of chester's kiss filled her heart with special words. "chester, loves you," it sang. "chester loves you."
so as i journey to & fro... know that you too have a "kissing hand" & i love you!
<3 KA
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