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Summary: The Most Beautiful Book I Have Ever Read
Review: I found this book as an adult. I was looking for a gift for my
Grandmother who was blind at the end of her life and I used to read it to her most evenings before bed. Eventhough the pictures really tell the story, she got the message about love. Every parent should own this book and read it to their children!
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Summary: Not Creepy, or a symbol for incest
Review: Those of you who came out of the reading of this book with ideas that it is creepy or otherwise dealing with incest are simply wrong. This book is obviously a children's book, and as a child having it read to me, I felt it was a powerful message about love. Now as a teenager and perfectly capable of jumping to such SICK conclusions as incest, I never have and never wpould have until I read some of the reviews here online. I believe this book to be quite touching, about the depth of a parent's love for a child who isn't perfect. A child having this book read to them simply understands that if they make mistakes, their parents will still love them. Only an adult with a sick or demented mind would jump to the idea that the relationship the mother has with her son is somehow "creepy". Get a life, people, and pull your minds out of the gutter. I love this book.
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Summary: Mother's Day Story
Review: This story was read to the children of our church during their time with the pastor on Mother's Day. He has read the same story every year since the book was published. It reduced the congregation to tears and no mother had a dry eye. It is one of the most beautifully powerful, yet simple, stories I have heard since The Giving Tree. It is purely about unconditional love. Nothing more.
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Summary: I don't care for it, but my son loves it...
Review: 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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Summary: Are you kidding?
Review: I was astonished to discover that people see this wonderful book as being about stalkers, incestuous relationships, guilt, etc., etc. NOW I know who comes up with the subjects for vile talk shows - and who watches them.Get a grip, people. This is a book about the deep, unceasing love that parents have for their children, and which they pass on through the family. Love creates love. It takes it to absurd lengths to make a point. If you're taking it literally, you seriously need psychiatric help; or maybe you've never loved.
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Summary: no
Review: i hate this book ... seriously, i do. it's not about incest or whatever, it's about death ... it's telling a little kid: "hey, your mommy loves you a lot...and you love your mommy, right? well, shes going to die, and youre going to experience it." is this something you want your kid thinking? "my mommy loves me ... but someday she will be dead." I read this as an adult and it left me feeling like crap, thinking about it still does.
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Summary: BELOVED CHILDREN'S BOOK
Review: This is a wonderful story about the unconditional love of a mother for her son.
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Summary: Tender & Loving for Children & Adults
Review: This book is a realistic and child-appropriate portrait of the very natural process of life and growing older, and the bond between parent and child. Ultimately, it is a tear-jerker for adults and incredibly touching for kids. Kids are able to see that no matter how old they get, no matter how far away they move, they will always be cherished and loved by parents. The cute, little repititive rhyme on every other page is especially appealing to children.
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Summary: For adults, not kids
Review: This book chronicles a woman cradling and chanting a poem to her "baby" as he grows from an infant to an adult. "I love you for always, I love you forever, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be..." or something like that. It ends with the man cradling his dying mother, chanting the same poem. This is the only book I've ever actually thrown in the trash, because I didn't want it read to my son. I want him to thrive for just a little while in the wonderful, happy world of childhood where there is no death, no guilt, no forcing of love. Give it to your graduating high school senior, if you like. Read it for yourself to make yourself cry. But PLEASE don't read to your toddler... I think it's filled with underlying love-guilt messages that are manipulative and confusing for a toddler.
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Summary: I am shocked and disgusted
Review: and not at this book. It is so sweet and put me to tears while I read it to my baby boy. I am disgusted that people would read such awful things into such a sweet story...incest and stalking...thats just ridiculous.. I also let others read it and they also found it nothing but sweet.....
I know I'll teach my son that it means that a mothers love for her child has no end and that no matter what, I will always be there to comfort and soothe him no matter how old he gets and that when I need him, I know he will be there for me....
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