The Invisible String (The Invisible String, 1)

The Invisible String is the kind of book every child should have on their shelf. Whether it’s grief, separation anxiety, or just missing a loved one, this story offers a gentle and beautiful reminder that love keeps us connected—no matter where we are. As a teacher, I’ve read this aloud in class during difficult times, and it always brings comfort, even to adults. The message is universal and timeless. The illustrations are sweet and the language is simple enough for young kids to understand, yet powerful enough to move anyone. Highly, highly recommended.

This book is such a sweet and comforting read for kids. It’s helped my children understand connection and separation in a meaningful way after a loss in our family. A great gift for families or classrooms.

Came on time and is a pretty book. It is large which I appreciate when trying to read it to my child. I have not read it to my baby yet though and am waiting til she is a little older.

I really enjoyed this book. It was beautifully written and illustrated. Still I think it was too deep for my 3 1/2 year old grandson. Hopefully he’ll understand it by 5 years old because they moved across the country to another state.

Get this book if you need help explaining to your littles that even though they cant see their best friend anymore, we can still feel them 🩷

Bought for my kids to help with separation. They always talk about their invisible string.

I bought this book for my kids because their dad is an over-the-road truck driver and he's gone for about 4-5 weeks at a time and home for 1 week. I have 3 gripes about this book and admittedly two of them are just personal preferences, but I'll start with something I really like about it.There is a sentence in the book that says how love is stronger than anger and I just really like that part. I also love the scenes where the kids are imagining themselves in different places like in a submarine, on top of a mountain, in space and asking if the string reaches those places.My 3 gripes are as follows:1. There is no father in the book. I understand that the author is a single mom and that there are many different families out there, but I bought this book specifically because my children's dad is gone a lot so that kind of sucks for my purposes. However, it's a personal preference and in the part where she talks about being away from the kids I just interject in the story and talk about how it's the same for their dad when he's out on his truck working hard.2. There is page that asks if the string can reach all the way to heaven. I'm agnostic and am raising my kids to be free-thinkers. My oldest is six and has a receptive speech delay and I'd prefer not to really bring up the after-life until absolutely necessary or until he's able to grasp a conversation about how different people believe in different things. Again, it's just a personal preference and i just skip over that page.3. This one is less of a personal preference and more of a flaw in logic on the authors part. The book is called The INVISIBLE String. It's about an INVISIBLE string, but when the mom introduces the INVISIBLE string she holds it up to the kids as if they can see it! I just don't understand it lol. Why would you hold up something you know they can't see? HOWEVER, it's only about a total of four sentences where it's about her holding up the string and the kids trying to see it. I've crossed those parts out with a pencil and just skip over them. The main point of the string is still told in between those sentences where she says it's a special string made of love and again where she says that you can't see it with your eyes, but you can feel it with your heart.Overall, if I skip over the few parts I don't like and interject the sentence about "Dad", it's a good book and I'm glad I purchased it. It tells a decent story about Love being a force that knows no bounds.

Well written & my 7 year old years reads it 3-4 times a day. All the cousins too! Daddy may be in Heaven but he can alway stay with her & everyone else. The Best book for children when they learning how to grieve.