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Amazing Book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 6, 2023

This book is so sweet. The book itself is great quality and the story & pictures are beautiful.
I bought it to read with a 5 year old child at my child care centre to support him after the sudden loss of his grandfather. He really enjoys the story!

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I was disappointed

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 23, 2022

After reading glowing reviews, I purchased 2 copies to give as gifts. I have a Montessori program and I am always looking out for excellence in children's books. I found the story a bit off-putting. The ending seemed jumbled and not cohesive. I really do not care for the illustrations. They are too simple and cartoonish.
I will not be giving these as gifts.

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Recommend for younger kids ages 2-5

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 31, 2021

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This book has had such amazing reviews, I was honestly expecting there to be a bit more to the story! Although it’s a good message, I had thought there’d be more to it. We still read it and used it for our teaching tool, for family leaving the country and moving away. It’s helped the kids even tho it’s a tad simple. It did prompt a lot of Q & A after reading it so it was still very useful as it got the conversation started and the dialogue going.
Would recommend maybe for smaller kids ages 2-5.

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Helen Surprenant

Good story & illustrations

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 16, 2021

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This was a gift for my grandson who is starting kindergarten. The quality of the book was good and the story was age appropriate.

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Terry

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 15, 2020

Good kid book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 10, 2017

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I want to clarify my rating - my theee year old and I love this book and it's been a great way of introducing connections with people even if you can't see them. I just wish it didn't use the concept of "heaven" or the word "heaven" or have a note to say heaven is used.

We changed the word heaven to died/dead when reading the book.

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Trish

The illustrations are really quite simple (and perhaps a little dull for the price of the book)

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 25, 2017

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Appreciate the messsge. Generic and therefore applicable to many and all scenarios. The illustrations are really quite simple (and perhaps a little dull for the price of the book). However great, simple to understand messsge for children to know that love connects,

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AKK

Three Stars

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 20, 2017

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it's ok. A little awkward.

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N.Tillotson

Mentions heaven.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 15, 2023

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This book could have been great. Unfortunately, for us, it is ruined by the mention of heaven. It was suggested to us as a non-religious book to help explain the feelings associated with separation and grief, so I was surprised and disappointed to find the mention of heaven. This renders the book useless for us as we don't believe in heaven and won't be teaching that story to our child. If it had said something like "does the string reach to someone who has died? or someone in your memories?" Then I think the book would have been brilliant and would have still been useable for us (and others who don't teach heaven).
It's a well-illustrated book that will hold a child's attention and the story is nice. The overall message is comforting and wholesome, even if it is sickeningly cheesy.
I just won't ever read it to my child because of the religious mention. A real shame.

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Sian Townsend

Mentions heaven which was disappointing as didn’t realise it was a religious book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 9, 2023

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Nice idea but doesn’t mention loss much and mentions heaven. I didn’t expect this to be a religious book so was disappointed. Nice idea but could be a little more focussed on loss and remove heaven.

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WDEJG's Mom

Beautiful sentiment, less than stellar delivery.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2016

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I was actually disappointed in this book after a few years of people recommending it. I had hoped to add it to my collection of grief books for children and have it blow me away because I kept hearing such great things about it. Some things are great about it, but if I had flipped through it in a store, I don't think I would have bought it.

It's incredibly important to me that children's feelings are acknowledged, allowed, and assured that their feelings are normal, healthy to express, and that we value their rights to feel them. It's also important to me that children know they have an adult in their life that they can go to for help, to feel safe, that can handle their big emotions, and just to be there for them if they need them.

The first pages of this book immediately belittle, ignore, and tell the kids it's not OK to feel scared during a thunderstorm (it's just a thunderstorm, it's nothing to be scared of - um, I'm mid 30's and thunder still scares me!) and that they shouldn't go to their mom when they're scared, instead relying on this invisible string connection.

I would have loved to see the mom acknowledge their feelings as acceptable and introduced the invisible string as a way to help them when they truly can't get to her as a reminder that they're connected always, even when they can't be together. Instead, it came across as not wanting them to come to her for something as silly as fear of thunder. It was just disappointing and made me feel sad for the kids. If you want that invisible connection when you aren't there, you gotta work on the actual connection first!

In case anyone is curious, there is a mention of an uncle that died and is in heaven, so keep that in mind. I was surprised by that only because people consistently told me the book isn't about grief/connection to the dead. I actually took so long to buy it because it wasn't a book for grief around a death and those are the types of books I need. But I did I buy this book to help a 7 year old with the murder of her previous kindergarten teacher. I loved the idea of this to help her deal with this horrific death and help her sweet little heart heal a little, but I would hate for her to get the idea that fears or other feelings shouldn't be expressed or that she shouldn't seek out help from trusted adults so I haven't let her borrow it yet. Darn those pesky few beginning pages!!!! If those weren't in it, I would like this book a lot more.

The sentiment is absolutely beautiful, but the delivery was unfortunately not so great.

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Kyle

Cute idea for small children. Not what I was looking for.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2021

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I bought this book after a few adults had talked about it on Facebook. They gave it to their children while they navigated divorce and other family situations where someone is no longer around. Although it is a cute idea I found it to just be, meh. You do not need a book to teach a child what this book talks about with unconditional unwavering love. This is something that should be easily thought. To be honest I bought this for my mom because my father just died and I thought it would be cute to put with some gifts for Christmas to remind her he is always with us and help her grieve. If that’s what your looking for like something similar. Don’t get this. It’s very childish. I understand it’s a childrens book but I see a lot of adults saying it helped them get through something and after reading it myself I just found that to be silly. I bought 3 copies. 2 for my kids and I returned 2 because I didn’t feel they were worth it. I bought my kids beginner bibles instead to help with our grief and have since found other books on separation that I found more helpful for my situation.

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