Take Heart, My Child
A Mother's Dream (With Audio Recording)
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Now available as a giftable board book, popular FOX news anchor and New York Times bestselling author of I’m So Glad You Were Born Ainsley Earhardt’s New York Times bestseller Take Heart, My Child is a lyrical lullaby that inspires children to follow their dreams and passions.
FOX and Friends cohost Ainsley Earhardt shares precious life lessons parents can pass onto their children so that they can follow their hearts, dreams, and passions.
Take Heart, My Child is a lyrical lullaby in which Ainsley shares her own hopes and dreams and lets her child know that whatever challenges life brings, “Take heart, my child, I will—or, my love will—always be there for you.” It’s a universal message, one that all readers will relate to.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In her debut children's book, Fox & Friends cohost Earhardt assumes the voice of a mother expressing her hopes for her daughter, advising her child to take risks and be independent. In a sequence of vignettes, the story moves from the sea to the forest and into the night sky, initially described in fanciful terms: "Before you were born/ Before you shared my day/ I dreamed a love song/ Near a grand deer ballet," reads one spread as newcomer Kim shows a young woman and six deer prancing through a field. The light-dappled illustrations play well with the text's ethereal references to nature, alternating between images of the mother-to-be on her own and ones of her daughter swinging from a tree, peering at the moon through a telescope, and flying a kite on the beach. Though the advice can be syrupy or overfamiliar ("May you take the high road/ Through the road may be long/ Pledge to follow your heart/ So your heart will grow strong"), Earhardt's you-can-do-it message is consistently encouraging. Ages 4 8.
Customer Reviews
Take Heart My Child
Loved it. Read it to my 5 year old daughter before school. She loved she said read it again Nana.