The Heart and the Bottle
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780007429004 (0007429002)
Publish date: September 1st 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
I love this subtle story about grief and healing. It’s a good introduction to loss for kids. If a child has recently experienced a death in the family, I might pair this book with one more explicitly about death.
This is a smack-you-over-the-head-with-a-message type of book that will leave many kids feeling very puzzled and potentially annoy their parents as well. It might be a good pick for a child who has experienced loss of some kind. And yet it deals with the topic in such an indirect way that I'm reall...