![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, aren’t we each ‘ much like any other‘? Don’t we each have heads ‘f illed with all the curiosities of the world‘? Thereafter ‘ with thoughts of the stars‘ and ‘ delight in finding new things‘. It seems as though loss impacts us that it is feels as though the heart’s fractured. ( Harper Collins) The Heart and the Bottle is a story of a heart’s fragility. The Heart and the Bottle’is a deeply wonderful, subtle, weighted picture book. Through vast, meaningful pages, with sparing text and every shadow carefully considered Oliver Jeffers leads the reader through an experience of shutting off and then reengaging. However, shutting ourselves off and away from feeling denies us questions, experiences, relationships and life. Children will experience this for a spaghetti whirl of reasons. Thereafter, we guard away our hearts and shut out the world. Sadly, each of us will have been in a place wherein we want to protect ourselves from feeling again, for whatever reason. I have given this book to friends and family, and been given copies too. ![]() They demanded to read it again, together and then individually. I recall my tears the first time I read it, and the heavy silence that met it when I shared it with a class of children for the first time. The Heart and the Bottle is one of my desert island books, i.e., it is so special that I need it. ![]()
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