Home Is Where the Heart Is

by Emma Dodd, Emma Dodd (Illustrator)

Overview

Just what IS it that makes home such a special place to be?

Home's an extra special space you hold within your heart to keep you very close to me when we must be apart.

A charming celebration of what home means to all of us, featuring a wise cat and an adorable little kitten who discover that there really is no place like home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781536217124
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	07/06/2021
Series:	Emma Dodd's Love You Books
Pages:	24
Sales rank:	386,004
Product dimensions:	8.13(w) x 8.17(h) x 0.39(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Emma Dodd has created many books to critical acclaim. She works from a studio in England. When not working, she and her family spend as much time as they can surfing and walking in all weather.

Editorial Reviews

2021-05-05
A kitten and cat parent explore the concept of home and their close relationship.

“What is it that makes our house / a special place to be? / Let’s think about this place called home / and maybe we will see.” Their house is a place to snuggle and to be themselves. They leave for adventures (through the cat door) but always return home. Their house is where their good stuff is and where they play and snooze. During scary storms, it’s the place they feel safe and dry and warm. Though the parent kitty may need to be away sometimes, home is where the kitten can wait for the parent to return. “So this I will remember / my whole life through: / Home is where the heart is… / and my heart is with you!” With this small volume, Dodd adds another sweet, simple, and short title to her list of picture books in which adorable animals stand in for humans and impart reassuring sentiments. Her smudgy-lined art features a huggable duo of smiling kitties just being cats in a clean, pink house that’s clearly inhabited by humans, though none ever appear. Though it’s unquestionably sentimental, Dodd keeps it just this side of syrupy. Toddlers, whether cat lovers or no, will identify with the small, white kitten.

Appealing but not saccharine. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews

With this small volume, Dodd adds another sweet, simple, and short title to her list of picture books in which adorable animals stand in for humans and impart reassuring sentiments. Her smudgy-lined art features a huggable duo of smiling kitties just being cats in a clean, pink house that’s clearly inhabited by humans, though none ever appear. . . . Toddlers, whether cat lovers or no, will identify with the small, white kitten.
—Kirkus Reviews

Word and picture combine to convey a sense of security in this 13th volume of Ms. Dodd’s ‘Love You’ series of short, sweet picture books for children ages 2-5.
—The Wall Street Journal

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