A bedtime book for kids whose dads build, fix, and hold the world.
Coming soon from Cordis House. Book One of the Hands Like… series.
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For the kids who hear the truck before anyone else.
Whose dads come home with worn boots and rough hands.
Whose own small hands will, someday, fix and build and hold the world too.
Three of the fourteen spreads.
Before the sun, before the day…
Who fixes it? Hands like Daddy's!
Hands like Daddy's worked all day. Home to stay.
Ron Smith grew up in his family's HVAC business. He's spent his career advising owners of family-run businesses — many just like the ones in this book — through the moments that matter most.
Hands Like Daddy's is for his nephews, Easton, Hayden, Aiden, and Liam. And for the kid he was.
Cordis House is the publishing imprint of Cordis Global — building a library of books for and about the people who hold up the world quietly: families in trades, founders of small businesses, the makers and menders.
Illustrations by Cordis Studio. Audio versions and follow-up titles in the Hands Like… series releasing across 2026–2027.
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