All the things that home is and provides are celebrated in this warm, uplifting picture book. Starring a cuddly bear – big but clearly a youngster - and assorted animal friends, it explains abstract ideas, such as feeling out of place or uncertain, in ways that young children will understand and which will be very reassuring, because ‘home’ is always there, allowing you to grow, explore emotions, and helping you be ‘the best that I can be’.
The text rhymes, regular use of the word ‘home’ providing a gentle, repetitive beat. The illustrations by Klaus Flugge Prize shortlistee Alice Courtley are really special, a vibrant palette creating vivid and varied landscapes, from a busy city to a lakeside picnic site, and a gorgeous nighttime scene, lit by lanterns. This is one to win a place in readers’ hearts.
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.
Smriti Halls is an internationally bestselling children’s author whose award-winning books have been translated into more than 40 languages. Her stories are loved by children and adults alike and include picture book classics Rain Before Rainbows and the I’m Sticking With You series, as well as Publishers Weekly #1 bestselling I Love You Night and Day.
Smriti is South Indian by birth, British by nationality and a Londoner at heart and her stories, whether fast-paced and funny or lyrical and tender, are filled with hope, humour and heart, where every child can find themselves
