SuitabookLove expressed in different ways
Harriet identifies hugs, drawings and spoken words as ways of saying that she loves someone.
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Barbara M. Joosse - Author
This is a playful exploration of love through Harriet’s feelings and actions. It makes room for affection alongside anger, sadness, jealousy and worry, while using rhyme, illustrations and a few factual comments about hearts.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a playful exploration of love through Harriet’s feelings and actions. It makes room for affection alongside anger, sadness, jealousy and worry, while using rhyme, illustrations and a few factual comments about hearts.
Harriet identifies hugs, drawings and spoken words as ways of saying that she loves someone.
The book links love with feeling angry after time-out, sadness when someone is missing, jealousy around a friend’s birthday and worry about a treasured stuffed animal.
Some families may want to pause over the book’s unusual comparisons, heart information and occasionally forced-sounding rhyme. The emotional range is broad, but the treatment may feel more associative than smoothly structured.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: another book-specific source is still needed.
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