{"id":42033,"date":"2024-04-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=42033"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:01:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T20:01:09","slug":"hole-in-the-heart-hattie-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/hole-in-the-heart-hattie-hudson\/","title":{"rendered":"Hole in the Heart \/ Hattie & Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Books That Belong On Paper<\/strong>\u00a0first appeared on the web as Wink Books and was edited by Carla Sinclair.<\/em>\u00a0Sign up here<\/a>\u00a0to get the issues a week early in your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A MOVING AND REFRESHINGLY HONEST LOOK AT RAISING A CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Hole in the Heart: Bringing Up Beth<\/em>
by Octavia E. Butler (Author), Damian Duffy (Adapter), John Jennings (Illustrator)
Penn State University Press
2016, 288 pages, 6.8 x 0.8 x 9.5 inches, Paperback<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This isn\u2019t an easy read, but it\u2019s an important and memorable one. Hole in the Heart<\/em>, a memoir about giving birth to a child with Down syndrome, expresses anger, frustration, guilt, and many other parenting emotions. The book is moving and feels searingly honest, for instance when it explores Beaumont\u2019s ambivalence about the outcome of her daughter Beth\u2019s heart surgery. She struggles with the thought that it might not be such a terrible thing if Beth doesn\u2019t make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The colors are starkly monochromatic, but Beaumont does expressive, figurative things with them that communicate emotional depths. This includes crying fat tears that threaten to drown her, or showing differences in moods using shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parents are under such pressure to be perfect, including saying all the right things. It\u2019s brave of Beaumont to give voice to such complicated and difficult feelings in Hole in the Heart<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Christine Ro<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A LITTLE GIRL AND HER COLOSSAL FRIEND TEACH A MONSTER-SIZE LESSON ABOUT PREJUDGING OTHERS<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Hattie & Hudson<\/em>
by Chris Van Dusen
Candlewick Press
2017, 40 pages, 10.1 x 0.4 x 11.7 inches, Hardcover<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hattie & Hudson<\/em> is a beautiful book in every way. When Hattie McFadden paddles out on the lake one summer morning for her daily dose of exploring, she is so happy, she begins to sing. \u201cSo come with me \u2018cause there\u2019s room for two, \/ We\u2019ll be together, you and I. \/ Out on the lake in my little canoe, \/ Paddle, just a paddlin\u2019 by.\u201d Her calm, sweet song unexpectedly charms \u201ca monster\u201d at the bottom of the lake who can\u2019t help but respond to the invitation. Though Hattie can see Hudson for who he really is, the townspeople are not so welcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story is a great in for getting kids talking about everything from persistence to profiling. Concepts of home and belonging, of loud, angry grownups acting out of fear, of power and voice all make it a book that works for many kids, on many levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visually, Hattie & Hudson<\/em> rivals Chris Van Dusen\u2019s 2009 release, The Circus Ship<\/em>, in its breathtakingly gorgeous Maine-inspired landscapes and achingly expressive Rockwell-meets-Pixar characters. But where The Circus Ship<\/em> is silly and bouncy and quick, Hattie & Hudson<\/em> uses the time (and space) needed to tell the story of a quietly righteous little girl and the power of friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Mk Smith Despres<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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