Overview
Funny, emotional, and uplifting picture book about separation and love, to help children understand their emotions. Everyone loves everyone in Tess's house, but when Tess has to leave for school for the very first time, she is worried that her family's love might not stretch that far. Mom explains that love is like a string, it connects people together even when they are far away. At school Tess notices that all the children have strings! Some are new, some are old, some stretch a long way, and some even stretch right up into the sky. But what happens when a string breaks? Love is the third in a trio of feel-good picture books from author Corrinne Averiss (Joy (2018), Hope (2019)) - a pure delight from start to finish. A wonderful story that subtly tackles difficult topics of death, grief, separation, and overcoming anxiety.
Full Product Details
Author: Corrinne Averiss ,
Kirsti Beautyman
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Imprint: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 29.50cm
Weight: 0.481kg
ISBN: 9780711255470
ISBN 10: 0711255474
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 19 January 2021
Recommended Age: From 4 to 6 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A reassuring read for those with separation anxiety. --Publishers Weekly This will help children name their separation issues, and give parents a loving metaphor for reassuring them. --Debbie Tanner, S D Spady Montessori Elem., FL, School Library Journal An intimate story about the lasting connections love creates. --Danielle Ballantyne, Foreword Reviews, starred review
An intimate story about the lasting connections love creates. - Danielle Ballantyne, Foreword Reviews, starred review---
An intimate story about the lasting connections love creates. - Danielle Ballantyne, Foreword Reviews, starred review
A reassuring read for those with separation anxiety. - Publishers Weekly This will help children name their separation issues, and give parents a loving metaphor for reassuring them. - Debbie Tanner, S D Spady Montessori Elem., FL, School Library Journal An intimate story about the lasting connections love creates. - Danielle Ballantyne, Foreword Reviews, starred review
Author Information
Corrinne Averiss is the author of My Pet Star, winner of the Sainsbury's Children's Book of the Year, the Stockport Children's Book Awards and in over 450,000 homes as part of Booktrust's Pyjamarama campaign. Her first book, A Dot in the Snow, illustrated by Fiona Woodcock, was shortlisted for the CILIP Greenaway award, featured on CBeebies' Bedtime Stories and in The Sunday Times' Books of the Year. She is the author of Joy, Hope, Sorrel and the Sleepover, The Boy on the Bench, and Floss the Playground Boss. She is drawn to themes of identity and belonging in her books and aims to deliver big feelings with humour and tenderness. Kirsti Beautyman works from her studio in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, using a range of mediums to build layers of texture and detail which are combined digitally to create her illustrations. She finds inspiration within mundane observations and is often staring vacantly into the distance thinking up narratives and ideas. Kirsti won Picture Hooks Illustrator of the Year Award in 2017.
