The main characters are raccoons and it's called The Kissing Hand. And it's a great story to read at the beginning of a new adventure and also at the end. We're also going to do some shared writing.

Penn shares some of her advice for parents reading the book or their own kiddos heading to school. Penn said, “I would like people to understand the book is not to be read, The Kissing Hand is ...

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“The Kissing Hand was a book I read in a Children’s Literature course in college, and I promised myself that when I had children, I would read this book the night before their first day of ...

In the children's book, "The Kissing Hand," Chester Raccoon is scared to leave his mom and go to school for the first time. His mother tells him the secret of the kissing hand. She kisses the palm ...

The Kissing Hand 25th Anniversary Edition by Audrey Penn, illus. by Ruth E. Harper and Nancy M. Leak. Tanglewood, $19.99 Sept. ISBN 978-1-9391-0018-4. ADVERTISEMENT. PW Children's Bookshelf Archive ...