The Heart Is Big Enough
Language: English
Published by Harcourt Childrens Books, 1997
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In each story a child overcomes a difficult situation such as a physical disability, parental divorce, or aging grandparent. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
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- Title
- The Heart Is Big Enough
- Author
- Michael J. Rosen
- Publisher
- Harcourt Childrens Books
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0152014020
- ISBN 13
- 9780152014025
- Illustrator
- Valiquette, Matthew
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Rosen (This Is Our House, 1996, etc.) has written five short stories about protagonists on the cusp of adolescence in tales that are honest, captivating, and occasionally inspiring. In ``The Trust of a Dolphin,'' Matt, who is hindered by a partially-plastic hip, realizes his dream when he lands a job at a summer camp for teens interested in ocean life, and swims with a pod of dolphins. The best story of the collection, it is the deft blend of vivid detail and spare prose that makes palpable Matt's excitement and his joy at overcoming a minor disability. Learning to interact with others as equals is at the center of Frayda's story, ``The Walkers of Hawthorn Park.'' Although her grandmother is a kind-hearted woman willing to spend hours teaching her gardening, she wants Frayda to keep her distance from her strange neighbors, transients who live in a group home next door. Relationships with grandparents are part of other stories, too, where young characters learn to accept their aging relatives' physical and mental limitations and show them their love. Rosen's message is uniformly empowering: Even in the face of disease, divorce, or disability, the human heart is truly big enough. (b&w illustrations) (Short stories. 9-12) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Gr. 5^-7. Nature plays a thrilling role in these five short stories about preteens who reach beyond age and disability and prejudice. In the longest and best piece, a boy with a partly plastic hip feels heavy and clumsy and is in constant pain until he swims with the dolphins at a marine biology center on Key Largo, and they bond with him. There's nothing mystical or reverential about the connection. In all the stories, the excitement is grounded in hard work, biological fact, and physical particularity, whether the setting is the ocean, the beach, or the yard. A girl helps the mentally-ill residents of a group home make a garden, and they become part of the neighborhood. A boy feels a constant, "almost nervous amazement" about his grandmother's lifelong collection of biology specimens; he loves handling them, naming them, classifying them. The human connections are natural, too: edgy, sometimes difficult, nurturing, growing. To have illustrations by Matthew Valiquette. Hazel Rochman
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