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The Heart and the Bottle

Oliver Jeffers

Hardcover | Pages: 32 pages

Rating: 4.39 | 4466 Users | 692 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Heart and the Bottle
ISBN:	0399254528 (ISBN13: 9780399254529)
Edition Language:	English

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A picture book about grief. 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. Yes, it's that subtle, the chair is just empty, no explanation, really. 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. This doesn't make her life easier finally, as one might imagine. One day she meets a young girl, though, who helps her remove that heart from the bottle.

So this is a metaphor or analogy for the grieving life, and a lovely simple and sweet one. 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. And I like the reciprocity of support suggested here: Grandpas help kids, kids help adults. We can be good for each other. I love the artwork of Oliver Jeffers, with lots of contemplative space and lovely watercolors and slightly elongated depictions of people.

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Title	:	The Heart and the Bottle
Author	:	Oliver Jeffers
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 32 pages
Published	:	March 4th 2010 by Philomel Books
Categories	:	Childrens. Picture Books. Fiction. Death. Family. Psychology. Emotion. Love

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Ratings: 4.39 From 4466 Users | 692 Reviews

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After wanting to read this book for a while and it being on my list of betterment of books that I want to read, I finally bought it. I can say that I was not disappointed with this book and it offers lots of talking points in the story, such as Why is the chair empty? Why did the girl take her heart out? It also shows that how as we get older we sometimes lose our imaginations and curiosity that children have and that it takes a child to release it again. Although this book is very different to

Celebrated (and prolific!) author/artist Oliver Jeffers explores the nature of grief in this poignant picture-book, following the story of a young girl who is filled with wonder at the world, and who shares that wonder with a beloved elder. When that elder - a father, perhaps a grandfather? - disappears from her life, the girl shuts her heart in a bottle, in order to protect it from the griefs of life. But without her heart, she finds that she has become blind to the beauty and wonder she once

This book spoke a lot to me. Its sad but reassuring.

Overall, the artwork and impact of this book was fantastic. However, I did feel it was a slight bit cliche, as "creativity" and "unfollow the norm" is becoming more and more popular to force idiosyncracy out of individuals. Furthermore, about halfway through the book I was rather confused at one part. It was a sudden jump, and I thought I skipped a page. Yet, I loved the ending, I loved the book, and the last sentence was marvelous. Despite that, I only deemed it three stars for it's sudden

Well punch me right in my heart book. Jeez. I've been looking for some books to help my six-year old understand sadness, grief, and death because her beloved grandpa and my dad died way too soon from a horrible and incurable brain tumor. This one was a little over her head and hard for her to conceptualize, but it really really struck home for me, the grownup. I think the inclusion of a male presenting character (to me a grandpa) who has a beloved chair (just like my dad), and an adoring little

The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers is a contemporary childrens picture book published in 2010. It sticks out to me as a book worth reviewing because of the difficult subject it tackles. Despite at first being mortified at what could be interpreted as the tragic events of the book, the way in which Jeffers has narrated and illustrated the story poetically and colourfully addresses the grief that the main character suffers, and makes for a beautiful if inevitably sad read.The book centres

I've often said that many children grow up over-protected. Many parents dread addressing the big issues with their kids and therefore don't prepare them for what is out there - often claiming that they don't want to be cruel. I disagree with that policy. Should I ever have children, they will never think that there's a farm up-state where all the old animals go. I will certainly not replace a dead pet with one that looks just like it either. Death, as heartbreaking as it is, is also a part of