My Heart
New York Times Best Seller
PNBA Book Award Winner
Indie Next List Pick (Top 10)
Nerdies Best Picture Books of the Year 2019
Book Page Best of the Year 2019
SOI Original Art Show 2019 Juried Selection
The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) Best Books of the Year 2019
Indiebound Bestseller
A gorgeous picture book about caring for your own heart and living with kindness and empathy.
My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide.
Some days your heart is a puddle or a fence to keep the world out. But some days it is wide open to the love that surrounds you.
With lyrical text and breathtaking art, My Heart empowers all readers to listen to the guide within in this ode to love and self-acceptance.
“An emotional intelligence primer about the capacities of the heart, about love as a practice rather than a state, about how it can frustrate us, brighten us, frighten us, and ultimately expand us. What emerges is one of those rare, miraculous “children’s” books teaching kids about some elemental aspect of being human while inviting grownups to unlearn what we have learned in order to rediscover and reinhabit the purest, most innocent truths of our humanity.”
—The Marginalian (Formerly Brain Pickings)
★ “This message of this quiet book should be shouted from the rooftops. It begs to be read aloud, and it is a masterful blending of text and illustration.”
—School Library Journal, starred review
★ “Soothing, simple phrasing and masterful printmaking harness metaphors to make a heart's complexity accessible to children just recognizing its many manifestations… Sensitive, stunning words and pictures speak directly to young hearts.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ “it’s an empowering notion: Whether their hearts are closed or open, broken or full, children have autonomy over their own interior lives.”
—Book Page, starred review
“Rhyming verse and sweet-tempered artwork by Luyken explore childhood emotions through images of the heart.”
—Publishers Weekly
“A beautiful and lyrical picture book.”
-Mr. Schu