MY HANDS CAN

Tafuri's simple, close-up pictures in thin line and flat color show ""my"" hands (but never a face or much of the body) buttoning buttons, zipping zippers, tying laces, making music (with a kindergarten-band triangle), cutting (with scissors) and pasting (with the familiar lidded brush), rolling out dough, building with blocks--in short, engaging in all those manipulations a nursery school or kindergarten child might just have mastered. ""Best of all, my hands can hold other hands""--a satisfactory, if uninspired, ending for this strictly functional but well-focused classroom supplement.