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Heart in the Pocket

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I enjoy this story every time I read it to my daughter. I believe I have read somewhere that this book is translated from French into English. This may explain why the language is a bit more flowery and poetic than what I normally encounter in most children's literature. The baby kangaroo, joey, is frightened to leave his mother's pocket where all is safe and warm. The mother responds to each of his fears with understanding and descriptions of the beauty and adventure that lie in the world around them. In the end the mother realizes that what joey fears most is that if he leaves her pocket her love for him will end. She warmly dissuades him from this fear and he steps out into the world ready to enjoy it on his own two feet grounded in the knowledge that his mother will always love him. Nice message about loving your children enough to let them go.

Heart in the Pocket is a tender children's picturebook about the unbreakable bond between parent and child. An anthropomorphic mother kangaroo adores her little Jo-Jo very much; it's time for him to grow up and venture out from the safety of her pocket, but she will always treasure him. A gentle storybook brought to life with simple, heartwarming color illustrations. "Mama Kangaroo loves her Jo-Jo a lot, lot, lot. / She sings him sweet songs. / She finds him beautiful desert flowers. // And she will always hold his heart in her pocket."