Home is Where My Heart Is
Age 4+
Picture Storybooks Personal & Social Issues: Family Issues
A profound and poignant story that celebrates the true meaning of home, from award-winning and bestselling Smriti Halls and rising star Alice Courtley.
Award-winning Smriti Halls presents this heartwarming tale that teaches us that home is always in your heart.
What does home mean to you? Home is where you’re known, understood and where you can truly be yourself. But is home a place, or is it a feeling? Following Bear’s journey far from home and back again, you will see that home is not one place, it’s the people who love you. And most importantly, you can hold it with you wherever you go.
Creators
Smriti Halls is an internationally bestselling, award-winning children’s author, published in more than 40 languages worldwide. Her best-loved stories include Rain Before Rainbows, the I’m Sticking With You series, The Little Island and I Love You Night and Day (Publisher’s Weekly #1 bestseller, Wall Street Journal bestseller). Whether humorous or lyrical, her books are full of hope and heart and are loved by children and adults alike. Smriti is a former Writer in Residence for Booktrust and is a patron for the School Library Association. South Indian by birth, British by nationality and London-loving at heart, she lives and works near Richmond Park with her husband and their three sons.
Alice Courtley is an award-winning illustrator who studied on the prestigious Cambridge MA in Children’s Book Illustration, where she developed a passion for character and print-made texture. Alice is based in Cambridge.
Reviews
Smriti Halls’ cumulative and repeated text surrounds the reader like the ‘home’ that is being evoked … An attractive addition to the picture book boxes and a quiet moment in a busy classroom.
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