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Title: Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch, Sheila McGraw ISBN: 0-920668-37-2 Publisher: Firefly Books (J) Pub. Date: April, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (415 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: This book is not for children.
Comment: This book is sweet and touching if you happen to be trying to explain the cycle of life and death to your toddler (that is,that one day you will die and they will too). Otherwise, I think it's completely inappropriate for young children. It's sad and depressing. Reading time should be fun for kids. While we may want them to ask questions and experience a wide range of emotions, this book only serves to give them an insecure, queasy feeling that they are too young to name. I don't know about you, but that's not the reaction I'm aiming for when I read to my kids. I know others have said it but believe me, it bares repeating. This book is creepy.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Beautiful, Touching Parable
Comment: This little classic is readily and easily digested by one who has known the true love of a mother. My mother gave me this book during the first Christmas with my new baby daughter in 1992. I had no idea that within the year, my father would be gone, and I would begin to give tender care to my precious little mother who would begin "getting very sick" much like the mother in the book. I cried a bucket of tears as I read it aloud with my wife, mother and father for the very first time. When my mom passed on, it was a tender and precious time at her bedside, and very reminiscent of this tender little book.
Today, my two girls go for it regularly on my shelf at bedtime. They tease me because I can't get through it without crying. Funny to me that they have a very good grasp of allegory and they, unlike some of the book's critics, understand that the scenes with the mother coming to the man's apartment are actually his memories of her love. They understand, as I explain to them that the love poured into the son by his mother, has taught him how to love his new baby daughter at the end.
Love begets love, and this little childrens' parable is a powerful reminder! I highly recommend _Love You Forever_ to anyone who enjoyed a wonderful love with their mother. To others, I'm sorry but you simply won't (and obviously don't) understand. It's not written for you.
Rating: 3
Summary: I don't care for it, but my son loves it...
Comment: My three-year-old son has both Love You Forever and Guess How Much I Love You in his bookcase, and he never asks for Guess How Much I Love You and always asks for Love You Forever. I don't particularly care for it; it's not very well-written and the illustrations bother me, but I have never felt it was weird or creepy. Isn't part of being a parent recognizing that your child may have preferences that are different from yours?
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Title: Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney, Anita Jeram, San McBratney ISBN: 076360013X Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Goodnight Moon Board Book by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd ISBN: 0694003611 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 30 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein ISBN: 0060256656 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: June, 1964 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book by Eric Carle ISBN: 0399226907 Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr., Eric Carle ISBN: 0805047905 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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