the heart in the bottle by oliver jeffers

I appreciated how the paper pages are thicker than in most books and sturdy, but this is not a board book.

There is a perfect amount of text and of pictures. I came close to crying, but this overall this is an uplifting book that also made me smile. It’s also a great bibliotherapy book for children who are grieving. It would make a wonderful present for children who’ve lost a loved one, or someone of any age who’s suffered a loss, both recently and long ago. This is the best picture book about complicated grief I’ve ever read, and one of the best books about it on the subject, period. I love the artwork of Oliver Jeffers, with lots of contemplative space and lovely watercolors and slightly elongated depictions of people. And I like the reciprocity of support suggested here: Grandpas help kids, kids help adults. Will kids get it? Oh, I think so, with some talk with adults (which is in a way one of the very things the book is about, reading and talking together with kids), to help them make sense of the unspeakable things we all face from time to time. So this is a metaphor or analogy for the grieving life, and a lovely simple and sweet one. One day she meets a young girl, though, who helps her remove that heart from the bottle. This doesn't make her life easier finally, as one might imagine. Her grandpa is gone, and since she feels like she can't risk too much strain on her heart again, the girl grows up solitary, putting her heart in a bottle which she wears tied to a string around her neck.

Yes, it's that subtle, the chair is just empty, no explanation, really. A little girl likes to read with her grandfather as he sits in his rocking chair, and then one day she faces an empty chair. And we can encourage them to see things in the stars, find joy among colors and laughter as they play.Oliver Jeffers delivers a remarkable book, a touching and resonant tale reminiscent of The Giving Tree that will speak to the hearts of children and parents alike.Available for purchase at:AmazonBarnes & NobleBooks A Hudson BooksellersIndieBoundPowell'sTargetWalmartApple Books - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks.A picture book about grief. or we can find another special someone who understands the magic. They encourage us to see things in the stars, to find joy in colors and laughter as we play.But what happens when that special someone who encourages such wonder and magic is no longer around? We can hide, we can place our heart in a bottle and grow up. We don’t realize it at the time, of course. There is a wonder and magic to childhood. From #1 New York Times bestseller Oliver Jeffers, comes a poignant and beautiful story about finding joy after loss.

The heart in the bottle by oliver jeffers