# Made By Hand: A Crafts Sampler

**Author:** Carole Lexa Schaefer
**Grade range:** Grades K–5
**First published:** 2018
**Page count:** 0
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780763674335`
**ISBN-10:** `0763674338`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/made-by-hand-a-crafts-sampler
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A beautiful, one-of-a-kind volume invites readers to marvel at the time, effort, and care that went into creating handmade toys, tools, and treasures of the past. Whirr, buzz, hum. Before busy machines in factories turned out most of what we need and use, people crafted these items by hand. From a globe to a pie crimper, a butter churn to a rocking horse, this unique collection highlights fourteen one-of-a-kind objects — each one drafted, stitched, painted, or engraved by hand. Author Carole Lexa Schaefer draws inspiration from real historical artifacts to create thirteen short works of fiction, imagining the hands that might have made and used each item. Several artifacts can be traced to their origin, while others remain complete mysteries, making for a fascinating patchwork of fact, gue

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