The Heart and the Bottle

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urn:lcp:heartbottle0000jeff:epub:431fb011-ca85-4b2e-9874-ef902f53d26e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier heartbottle0000jeff Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3914qp2w Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780399254529 Lccn 2009026404 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-beta-20210815 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.8456 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200051 Openlibrary_edition As parents we always strive to shield our children from getting hurt, making sure the sharp corners of the furniture around our house are safely child proofed even before they come into this world, placing our hands strategically below their bum when they start taking their first steps, running along with them when they first learn to ride their bikes, holding them tight and close when they face their first failures or just being there when they are heart-broken. The Heart and the Bottle is an immeasurable delight from endpaper to endpaper. Complement it with other exceptional children’s books about grief— including the Japanese pop-up masterpiece Little Tree and the Norwegian gem My Father’s Arms Are a Boat— then revisit Jeffers’s equally wonderful Once Upon an Alphabet, one of the best children’s books of 2014.

Look at the sketches on the inside covers of the book. Can you think of some captions / speech bubbles / thought bubbles for each of them? The message of the book, despite some probably describing it as "dark", is actually uplifting - like I said, because it gives you a way to cope with the unthinkable. Life and death are part of life; much like day and night. Without one the other is not possible; it’s like The Cause And Effect Theory of Philosophy which focusses on light-oriented thinking. Oliver Jeffers makes impressive use of space in this affecting story of friendship … illustrations capture feelings of loss and loneliness through the most delicate nuances of facial expression … and body language.” Julia Eccleshare, The GuardianThis is the best picture book about complicated grief I’ve ever read, and one of the best books about it on the subject, period. It’s lovely in every way. It would make a wonderful present for children who’ve lost a loved one, or someone of any age who’s suffered a loss, both recently and long ago. It’s also a great bibliotherapy book for children who are grieving. This is a three-week Writing Root using the text The Heart and the Bottle by Oliver Jeffers, with explicit spelling (through vocabulary acquisition) and grammar objectives embedded within the sequence of learning. It begins with children ‘discovering’ the setting from the text of the empty armchair and posing questions to make predictions about the book. Children explore the text further, writing character descriptions using a range of descriptive vocabulary. The story and the sequence of lessons have strong PSHE links and these need to be approached with sensitivity. Having explored the passing events of the story for The Heart and the Bottle through an emotions graph, children then create their own stories where a dilemma occurs and there is an emotional response (again, with links to PSHE). Synopsis of Text: Jeffers has also explored the subject of grief with equal subtlety and genius in a grownup project celebrating the art of bearing witness.

The loss of a parent or the loss of a child is rather depressing in itself; a pain so crushing that often one shuts off completely from the world and glides into the shadowy darkness slowly. Things of profound importance suddenly seem illogical and fatuous.Experiences and journeys that once brought happiness and added value to our lives suddenly become worthless. As parents the greatest lesson we can teach our children is conceptualising loss and pain: from as trivial as losing a toy in school to losing someone dear to your life, because the inevitable cannot be fortified. the little girl who is now a grown woman finds her light; light which finally opens the Pandora Box, the bottle, and sets the girl free from the dungeon of captivity and re-find ‘Happiness’ once more. The little girl stands in front of an empty chair, the chair where the father daughter duo used to drift into the surreal and enthralling world of their books. She is holding a picture she has drawn illustrating one of her animal stories she had read with her father. The picture turns from day to night yet the chair is still empty and the girl is still waiting. Her sole companion in all her fantasy worlds is no longer there. Make a list of words / phrases that describe how the girl feels at the start of the story, when she finds the empty chair, and at the end of the story.

Overview:

She puts her heart in a glass bottle so it can't be hurt, and grows up into a young woman who has no curiosity about the world at all. But her heart is safe. Then one day she encounters a little girl, a girl just like she had been, full of questions about the world. Use the first line of the book (‘Once there was a girl, much like any other’) to start your own story. How will it be similar / different to this one? Once there was a girl who was full of wonderment at how the world worked. She shared all her dreams and excitement with her father, who always had the answer to every question. That is until one day when his chair was empty, not to be filled again - how would the girl ever find meaning from her life again? This book helps in that regard. The story is simple: a little girl grows up with her grandfather who frequently reads to her, goes with her to play in the snow etc. Until one day he is no longer there and she needs to find a way to deal with the loss. It's also about having had her grandfather in her life shapes her as an adult later.

Jeffers anatomises loss and the processes of grief with an honesty and ingenuity that will move adults and children of any age.” Telegraph It's the story of a little girl, "much like any other, whose head was filled with all the curiosities of the world." Her grandfather takes her to the forest, the beach, and listens to her stories and all her many questions. But then one day his armchair is empty. The story is about a young girl who is curious about her world, engaged, creative, dreamy, joyful, and who has a loving bond with an older person (someone who appears to be akin to a grandparent based on the book’s illustrations). The story is also about the girl’s experience of loss when the older person is no longer there, of the emotional pain she feels, and of how she copes with that pain, of what follows. This stylish and moving picture book from Best New Illustrator, Oliver Jeffers, explores love and loss and offers an ultimately uplifting resolution. The story is about what many of us do with emotional pain at some point in time or another, how we sometimes attempt to find relief from the pain by doing our best to seal the pain—or even our whole hearts that contain the pain—into something akin to a glass bottle. We try, one way or another, to stuff the pain into a jar and to put on a lid.An inquisitive little girl, who is enchanted by the world around her, is badly shaken when she loses someone she loves. The girl takes delight in finding new things. Plan an activity / trip in which you would be able to find out new things about a topic of your choice. What will you need? Where might you go? Who would come with you? Lovely illustrations. They’re colorful and sweet and interesting and many are very intricate, except for the also sweet, meaningful, simple drawings on the inside front cover. Award-winning picture book star Oliver Jeffers explores themes of love and loss in this life-affirming and uplifting tale.

Some of the illustrations have speech bubbles that show pictures instead of words. Can you think of the words that the characters might be using? Jeffers tells the story of a little girl, “much like any other,” whose expansive and exuberant curiosity her father fuels by reading to her all sorts of fascinating books about the sea and the stars and the wonders of our world. The girl’s head is filled with ‘all the curiosities of the world’. What does it mean to be curious? What things are you curious about? How could you find out more about them? Oliver Jeffers graduated from The University of Ulster in 2001 with First Class honours. His outstanding talent has been recognised by several high-profile awards, including the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award. ‘Lost and Found’ animation was broadcast on Channel 4. Oliver lives and works in Brookyln, New York. • Beautifully produced and profoundly moving… It made me cry, and I’m pretty sure I won’t be the only one.” The Irish TimesAccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-10-13 10:15:28 Boxid IA40257703 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Our zest for being parents and thinking of what is best for our child makes us weave a cocoon around our children, a cocoon so strong and dense that even the strongest of all pain, rejection and deception will be left ineffectual. But loss is a part of life, very much like eating food or drinking water or just breathing air because death is inevitable and loss is just its shadow. So she sets out to liberate her heart from its glassy prison — but the bottle has been fortified by years of self-protection.