Our latest recommendation for younger children is ‘The Invisible String’ by Patrice Karst.
The Waterstones Review
Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two children that they're all connected by an invisible string.
"That's impossible!" the children insist, but still they want to know more: "What kind of string?" The answer is the simple truth that binds us all: An Invisible String made of love. Even though you can't see it with your eyes, you can feel it deep in your heart, and know that you are always connected to the ones you love. Does everybody have an Invisible String? How far does it reach? Does it ever go away?
This heartwarming picture book for all ages explores questions about the intangible yet unbreakable connections between us, and opens up deeper conversations about love.
Recommended and adopted by parenting blogs, bereavement support groups, hospice centres, foster care and social service agencies, military library services, church groups, and educators, The Invisible String offers a very simple approach to overcoming loneliness, separation, or loss with an imaginative twist that children easily understand and embrace, and delivers a particularly compelling message in today's uncertain times.
"This book is a beautiful way to begin to try, as parents, to instill in children the impenetrable power of the heart, the energy of love, and the flow that can be felt from the grace in every moment.”
Tony Robbins
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Our recommendation for older children is 'Flotsam’ by David Wiesner.
The Best Children’s Books Review
Flotsam by David Wiesner is another visual extravaganza from one of our favorite illustrators, David Wiesner. In the story, a young boy at the beach stumbles upon a barnacle-encrusted box camera floating in the water. Intrigued, he runs to a local store to get the film processed, but he's totally unprepared for the mysterious photographs that he gets back---images of an advanced underwater world. The use of varying perspectives and layouts makes it even more exciting. Read it for fun, or as a fun intro to the mysterious, largely unexplored ocean depths!
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