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The Heart and the Bottle (Book Review)
A Tender Illustrated Fable of What Happens When We Deny Our Difficult Emotions
Popova, Maria http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/14/oliver-jeffers-the-heart-and-the-bottle/?mc_cid=cb83cb3909&mc_eid=d4e723364f
Resource Type: Article
A review of Oliver Jeffers' book The Heart and the Bottle.
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“Children … are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth,” E.B. White famously asserted in an interview, admonishing: “Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.” And yet down we write still, deaf to White’s wisdom and to Tolkien’s insistence that there is no such thing as writing “for children” and to Gaiman’s crusade against the spiritual disservice of shielding children from difficult emotions.
Nowhere is this disservice clearer than in how we address children’s experience of life’s darkest moments, as evidenced by the minuscule the pool of intelligent and imaginative books that help kids make sense of death and loss. And nowhere is there more heartening an antidote than in The Heart and the Bottle by the inimitable Oliver Jeffers.
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