Heart String
-
- $8.99
-
- $8.99
Publisher Description
There's an invisible string binding us all together! Beautifully illustrated, this heartwarming picture book reminds readers that we're all connected.
Through backyards and neighborhoods, over mountains, and across oceans, this colorful heart string ties us all together. Invisible yet undeniable, it joins our hearts so that we are never truly alone.
Follow the thread of this reassuring story to see how, even in a world as vast as ours, there is always a bond that connects us to the ones we love—and to the world we share.
WE ARE CONNECTED: Whether we're loved ones or strangers, this book is a poignant reminder that one person's joys and sorrows impact us all.
REASSURING MESSAGE: Nervousness or anxiety about distance or separation are universal feelings! From attending the first day of school to a traveling parent or distant grandparent, any kid will find comfort in this book.
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP: These colorful heart strings weave through streets, neighborhoods, mountains, and oceans—across the globe—showing us that love can overcome both distance and hardship, and ultimately revealing the threads that bind us together as one global community.
Perfect for:
Parents and grandparents
Teachers and librarians
Gift-givers
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With light verse, whispery artwork, and a single, rainbow-hued line that loops and soars through the pages, Boynton-Hughes (Brave Molly) introduces the idea that all human beings are linked. "There is a string," the narrator starts, addressing the reader directly, "an invisible string,/ that ties my heart/ to yours." A child and adult, portrayed with brown skin, hug before the child sets off for a nearby community garden, wagon in tow. The titular string—which reads clearly as a conceptual element rather than a literal one—starts at the child's hoodie and leaps off the edge of the page, connecting the youth to an elderly, white-presenting neighbor. Soon, the child is seen working in the garden within a bustling neighborhood, the cord glowing gold as it passes through individuals and groups portrayed with varying abilities and skin tones. Pulling farther out, Boyton-Hughes draws the line swirling across an ocean and desert, around the earth, and back at last to the neighborhood, where the hoodie-clad child offers the neighbor garden vegetables, acknowledging their connection: "My heart to yours,/ and yours to mine." An upbeat variation on Karst and Lew-Vriethoff's The Invisible String, Boynton-Hughes's work offers a glad vision of a world connected. Ages 3–5.