Heavy

Name: Heavy
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781761111020
Price: 24.99 NZD
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By Dannika Patterson

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Heavy by Dannika Patterson is a touching children's book about a young boy who feels weighed down by worries. Through engaging illustrations and a gentle narrative, the story explores how he learns to manage and share his burdens with others, offering a heartfelt message about dealing with emotions.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate children's stories that celebrate the little things in life and embrace themes of resilience and mindfulness. Its engaging illustrations and gentle narrative encourage young readers to find balance and strength despite life's challenges, making it a delightful read for nurturing empathy and emotional insight.

Heavy

Nina teaches her family of incredibly strong women how to takes a break from their busy and exciting lives with her amazing inventions. The author and illustrator blend exciting language with dynamic artwork to create a fun story for children about letting go of our burdens. Heavy is author Dannika Patterson’s twelfth book

Description

A light-hearted story about carrying heavy loads and the strength to be found when women and girls find ways to lift each other up.

Heavy is an empowering children’s picture book about intergenerational and societal patterns of burden carrying for women and girls. It addresses the glorification of busyness and burden-carrying in today’s world in a gentle, age-appropriate, and accessible way, with lightness and humour. It’s an anti-multitasking story for 4-8-year-olds that advocates for lighter living and focusing on just one important thing at a time to avoid overwhelm and burnout.

At the wild animal rescue centre run by her family of incredibly strong women, Nina watches as her older female relatives piggyback polar bears and carry boa constrictors.

Every day, they pick up more and more. The trouble is, they never put anything down!

Seeing her family struggle, Nina is determined to find a way to show them that just because they can carry heavy things around all the time, doesn’t mean they have to.

Will Nina’s inventions help lighten their loads?

Heavy is an empowering picture book about the value of rest and the lovely lightness one family discovers when the youngest, Nina, suggests they could all do things a little bit differently…

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Heavy by Dannika Patterson is praised for its deceptively complex narrative, delivering strong themes through simple writing. It is described as an empowering tale focusing on prioritisation and finding beauty in different approaches to avoid burnout. While the central message might seem evident to older audiences, the book's engaging animal antics offer young readers plenty of opportunities for creative storytelling.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781761111020

Publisher: Wombat Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 March 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Wombat Books

Contributors:

Illustrated by Davilyn Lynch

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 5.0mm

Width: 215.0mm

Height: 265.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 32

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Dannika Patterson Young Adult

About the Author

Dannika Patterson is an Australian children's author with degrees in Psychology and Journalism. After a successful international career using her wordsmithing skills to help businesses tell their stories, Dannika has found her true passion writing stories and presenting workshops for children.