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Summary: Love you Forever
Review: This book is a very good book. I would say a child 7 or 8 years old would like this book the most. A child 4 or 5 would not like this book much because it might be to boring for them they might not get it as say a child 7 or 8. They also might not understand the whole meaning about the book. They also would not be able to enjoy the book either. Love you Forever is about a mom who always sings her son a song even when he is a adult. When the boys mom gets old he sings the song to her insted of her singing the song to him. I would say boys or girls would like this book because it just is a very good book.
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Summary: this is NOT only a childrens book!
Review: When I was a little girl my mom used to read me this book and I was close to tears after each time!
Today when I'm an adult. it still brings me tears.
We sice lost our old copy, and as a touching nostalgic present to my mother I bought her this book.
It's a book about a parents love for their children. For children and adults alike, it's a touching and beutiful story about love that can never be taken away, or replaced.
A MUST HAVE book in every house, whether in the family room ar childrens room!
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Summary: A Mother's Love
Review: This story is a wonderful example of a mother's love for her children. Watching a child grow up and mature into an adult only deepens the love a mother feels. Ask almost any mother of any grown man and she will tell you that, that grown man is still her baby. There is a bond between mothers and their children that can't be broken. This book deals with that. There is also a bond fathers have with their children, and in the end when the tradition goes on and is passed on to his own daughter, the circle grows.
As a parent, I choke up reading this book to my toddler. What's more this is one book I want him to appreciate through out the years and share with his own children someday.
There is a bit of silliness in the fact that she still rocks her grown son, but it is still a children's book and I think it's appealing to their sense of humor at that point. The overall theme and emotions are A+.
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Summary: Unconditional love lasts a lifetime
Review: Reading this book makes you realize that someone was able to put into words and pictures just how deeply the love for your children goes. My son loves to hear the mother whispering sweet nothings to her son while rocking him and loving him at every stage of his life.
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Summary: Bring on the hankies!~!!
Review: Someone sent me this book while I was caring for my terminally ill mother at my home. This unconditional bonding between mother and child exists and never is broken, although the two may reverse roles a bit when approaching death. I cannot read this without tears streaming down my face. It ranks up there with "The Giving Tree."
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Summary: Distorting the nature of love
Review: There are problems in the text and problems in the drawings. The cover shows a child who has messed up the bathroom with toilet paper. Other pictures show the child having done other naughty things... but the mother loves her child and always sings him her little song..."I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my Baby you'll be." He gets big and doesn't want her rocking and singing to him so she sneaks into his room at night and does it anyway, and when he's a man and lives across town, she drives over with a ladder and climbs in a window and rocks and sings to him. Then she gets too old to do these things and he takes over the rocking and singing, changing the lyric to: "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my Mommy you'll be." What's wrong with the text? Does love stay the same during the period of sixty years? Do we intrude on the privacy of adult children? Doest the function stay the same? Now, before folks defend... I bought this book in two seconds. It spoke to my need for unconditional love and for my children to stay true to me. (See the reviews that come before this one.) But I never actually read it to a child, because I felt some restraint about it, and later I learned what I've written here from a wonderful teacher of children's lit. The book has a hook, I fell for the hook, I expect you did too (it's a huge bestseller). It helped me that I had the opportunity to rethink this, but it was painful to do so. Give it to adults, if you must, but not to little children who are forming their images of what love is... since they must learn that love changes and grows, if it is to endure.
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Summary: Incredible book about a mother's love for her son
Review: I bought this as a "1st christmas" gift for my infant son. I wrote a note in the front of it and my hope is that he will read this book to his own children one day. Everytime I read it to him I get tears in my eyes. A very touching book.
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Summary: a man in tears
Review: and i dont care who knows. ive loved this book ever since i first read it. going thru part of my life without the love of my real mother makes this book extremely difficult for me to finish without crying. i may not have been held (ever) by my mom but when she is old i fully plan on holding her and singing this song. whenever i am at a book store i have to read this story and always finish with a tear... a must read for all moms and dads.
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Summary: Great Book for All!
Review: When I read this book I loved it! I don't think many younger ones would really grasp the idea of the mother rocking her son while he was a man. But it definitly shows the love the mother really has for her son. Even if it wasn't really shown from her son to her until both of them were very much older. Many times that is the cirumstance though with relationships between mothers or fathers and their children. When the children are younger they don't really realize how much their parents do for them or how much they mean to them. Yet when they get older, most of the time, these burdons are put on them so they finally know what it's like. They might even recognize it before then. Going back to the book, it's very good because the pictures really bring out how many different things both of them went through. Then at the very end, it told of the mother calling the son, telling him he needs to come see her because she is very old and sick. So he goes to see her and when he got in the room with her, she started singing the song:
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always...
But she couldn't finish because of her being too old and sick. So her son picked her up and rocked her back and forth, just as she had done to him. And he finished the song:
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my Mommy you'll be.
When he does this, he shows that he remembers this and he is finally making it up to her, letting her know that he cares for her as well. Even if he didn't show it before. Then, when he goes home, he stood at the top of his stairs, thinking. Then it shows a picture of him with his new born baby girl, rocking her back and forth singing the same song his mother sang to him at night. Most of the time that's how things get passed down from generation to generation with much care in mind. I know this because I have a ring that was my great grandmother's which has been given to me. There's no way I will give it up and when I have a little girl(hopefully I will), I will pass it down to her.
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Summary: The unconditional bonds of love
Review: I read this to my daughter and son when they were very young, but it was my son who most closely related to it. He was two when I first introduced the story to him, and even today, at age 11, when he is dealing with independence and girlfriends, we still recite the verse to each other on those rare occasions he lets me cuddle with him. I am perplexed by those who consider this story creepy, and can only feel that they may not understand the true nature of unconditional love, or the reality of the life cycle. A child's greatest fear is the loss of a parent, but it is a reality that some children suffer that loss. We can let our children understand that our love for them supercedes even death, and will continue on in the love for their children. I recommend this book for every mother and child.
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