INSPIRATIONAL CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Love really is forever The story behind the bestseller The Invisible String Love. What is it? This essential question is what has propelled my book, The Invisible String, into a bestselling phenomenon. I have had a lot of time to ponder just why the book’s simple message about love struck such a chord with young and old alike from across the globe. And the answer is as simple as the message itself: love is what binds and connects us together. Love is the heartbeat of life. Love is the only thing in the end that really matters, and love transcends time and space. When I was a single working mum in the late 1990s, the story of The Invisible String was born. My son Elijah suffered painfulto-the-core separation anxiety
when I had to drop him off at pre-school each morning. It broke my heart to leave his tear-stained face with his teachers, who had to pluck his clinging, shaking body from me as he held on for dear life whenever I kissed him goodbye. One morning, what poured out of me as I held him was the story of how we had an invisible string that would connect us all day long. I mean—didn’t everyone know this? Because of this magical string, when he missed me, all that he needed to do to feel my love again was tug on his end of the string, and I would be able to feel him and tug his love right back. A never-ending dance of connections would tether us all day long until we would reunite
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each evening. Voila! His tears dried. “Is there really an invisible string, Mumma?” His little voice asked me. “There sure is, and it connects our hearts forever,” I replied. This simple answer changed both of our lives in unthinkably magical ways. For the first time ever, Elijah’s separation anxiety vanished, and in its place, security, confidence and comfort washed over him. We could both breathe again, and our days were joyful instead of panicked and worried. Soon, his friends asked me to tell them too about this wondrous invisible string that connected them not only to their working parents, but to their pets that had passed, their grandparents who lived out of state, and their best friends who had moved away. The kids soaked up the message like the little love sponges that they are and were the inspiration for me to sit down and write my book, and to devote my life to spreading this message of love to the planet. Hugs and tugs! PATRICE KARST, Author of The Invisible String www.patricekarst.com
