The Heart and the Bottle

Well, it's a tear jerker. The Heart and the Bottle is a beautifully illustrated picture book about a young girl experiencing death and grief for the first time. Oliver Jeffers has so simply put in to pictures what loss can feel like to a young soul. After attending a seminar about suicide prevention in the classroom, death education and potential curriculum has been floating around in the back of my mind. This book, for me, seemed sensitive to the thought process that can occur during grief. It is full of conversation starters and big questions that we need to be asking one another including how do we help our loved ones while they grieve?