The Heart and the Bottle
Oliver Jeffers, . . Philomel, $17.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-399-25452-9
When a small girl loses her father, her only parent (Jeffers represents the loss with the father's empty chair in a moonlit room), she decides “the best thing” is to put her heart in a bottle and hang it around her neck. All the bubbly curiosity that had made her sparkle disappears, “but at least her heart was safe.” Not until the girl, now considerably older, meets “someone smaller and still curious about the world” is her heart restored to her. Jeffers's (
Reviewed on: 02/15/2010
Genre: Children's
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