The Heart And The Bottle By Oliver Jeffers
The Heart and the Bottle by award-winning Brooklyn-based children’s author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers is a picture book for children ages 5 years and up. The main character is a little girl “whose head was filled with all the curiosities of the world” — until the day she loses someone important to her. She puts her heart in a bottle and hangs it around her neck for safekeeping, but as she grows older her life becomes joyless and the bottle becomes heavy and awkward. When she wants her heart back she has difficulty extracting it, until someone helps her to recover it. This book is a poignant and thoughtful story of grief, with rich illustrations.
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Popova, M. (2015, September 25). The Heart and the Bottle: A Tender Illustrated Fable of What Happens When We Deny Our Difficult Emotions. The Marginalian. https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/05/14/oliver-jeffers-the-heart-and-the-bottle/