"A book to return to time and time again."
Award winning Oliver Jeffers’s latest book is wholly compelling for the importance of its message and the brilliance of how that is conveyed in words and pictures. To overcome her sadness when her grandfather dies a little girl decides to protect her heart from any further suffering by putting it in a bottle. For a time it works, but living without a heart turns out to be living only part of a life and soon the little girl needs to get it back. Luckily, there is someone who can help her. A book to return to time and time again.
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Award-winning picture book star Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love and loss in this life-affirming and uplifting tale.
Once there was a girl whose life was filled with wonder at the world around her…
Then one day something happened that made the girl take her heart and put it in a safe place. However, after that it seemed that the world was emptier than before. But would she know how to get her heart back?
In this deeply moving story, Oliver Jeffers deals with the weighty themes of love and loss with an extraordinary lightness of touch and shows us, ultimately, that there is always hope.
The Heart and the Bottle features in the following genres: Young Adult Fiction, Early years: first experiences, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Early years / early learning concepts, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts, Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics
The Heart and the Bottle is available in Paperback
The Heart and the Bottle was written by Oliver Jeffers and published by HarperCollins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Heart and the Bottle has 32 pages
£7.19
