Author: Martine Agassi
Format: Paperback
Published: Free Spirit Press, 2000

A classroom library staple, Hands Are Not for Hitting uses straightforward text and bright, simple illustrations to depict the many things hands are meant to do – greeting and communicating, drawing and writing, playing and learning, eating and drinking, hugging and applauding, and much more. It reminds children that hands are not for hitting, examines some reasons kids might feel like hitting, and explores alternative ways to release emotions. Clinical therapist Agassi also includes pages for grownups to help them expand on the ideas in the book.