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Summary: This is the cutest book!
Review: I work at a school, and when I read this to my preschoolers, they loved it. Not only did they listen to the entire book, but towards the end they were singing along with me. This a favorite of all the kids. And has the potential to be a very sentimental book for parents and children. I give it 2 thumbs up.
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Summary: Love you forever
Review: I have never read a book that made so many grown women cry. It is so sweet and tender and reminds all mothers ,young and old
,what being a mother is all about. I bought six copies to send to
my sisters and close friends.
Charlotte Springer
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Summary: File this one under "Wastebasket"
Review: This one is laughably bad. The first page was good but then it quickly goes downhill from there. Based on the reviews, we were expecting a book on par with Goodnight Moon or Love You Forever. Instead, my wife and I could barely make it thru this one without busting out laughing in front of our little baby. Like other readers, we had tears in our eyes but they were tears of laughter. The story is poorly written and the words don't flow. The poem that is repeated throughout the book is supposed to be tender and touch the reader deeply. Instead, it's so poorly conceived, it's like listening to fingernails on the chalkboard. Except for the cover, the illustrations are terrible. The illustrations have all the tenderness of a First Aid manual. And why is the grown man sleeping on his mother's lap? I understand the author is trying to convey the strong emotional bond that exists between mother and son throughout their entire lives but there must be a less disturbing and ridiculous means of doing so! Besides, isn't this book supposed to be for the little ones?
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Summary: Whats with the criticism??
Review: People who have criticized the book calling it "creepy" need to lighten up! This is a children's story book, not a parenting manual.If you take the story for what it means in the metaphorical sense, it's very touching to any mother. The mother cradles her baby all through his life into adulthood, but the cradling is more SYMBOLIC than the author suggesting you haul out your ladder and creep into your grown son's room!! It is saying that no matter what, no matter how you grow I will love you. I think it's a great message. Take it for what it is! You could read it to your child and simply explain that it's a storybook, not to mean that the actions should or would be carried out by mom. As far as Dad, why does there have to be a dad? Why can't we just focus on a mother's love for her child? I loved this book, and it made me cry as I'm 9 months pregnant with a son of my own. I plan to read him this book to illustrate my love for him, but also let him know it's just a story. People really need to lighten up!
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Summary: THE sweetest children's book!
Review: The first time I read this book, I cried. My mom had bought it for my baby brother. It's one of those books that shows children that no matter what, they are always someone's baby. This is a must for all parents!
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Summary: Not a little bit disturbing
Review: I know myself to be in the minority on this one, but this book has given me the willies ever since I first discovered it while working in a children's bookstore. Unlike 'The Runaway Bunny', a book which comforts children in an age-appropriate and metaphorical way, 'Love You Forever' seems to be written to comfort parents. The book only details the negative things that the son does, seemingly implies that the mother loves him 'anyway'. The pictures are distinctly odd, giving one the impression that the illustrator has never looked on a living teenager. While the idea that a mother loves her son no matter what he does is very sweet and comforting, the idea of an old lady driving across town with a ladder strapped to her car in order to climb into her grown son's window is not. There is no father in this book, making the obvious Freudian assumptions a little too real for comfort. Books like 'Guess How Much I Love You?' and 'Emma Bean' show just as much love, but in a gentler, more subtle way that I think children can appreciate better than the literal message of unconditional love of in 'Love You Forever'. Although I've had this book recommended to me many a time since my son was born, I think I'll stick to books that both of us are comfortable with.
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Summary: Get the Kleenex ready...
Review: The first time I read this book to my child, I had a hard time not crying. The wonderful description of a new mother and her child and what lenghts she'll go to to be sure they are safe and sound! The ending shows the role reversal from parent taking care of the child to the grown child taking care of the parent....and in a VERY touching and heart warming way. I sugggest this book to every parent and as a gift to expecting parents.
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Summary: A Must Have
Review: I read this book and cried. and I still have a hard time geting through it dry eyed. The part where the mother climbs into her adult sons house is a little silly, but it is also funny, and I think that every Mother should have this book.
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Summary: Literal, so a child can understand
Review: I shared this book with a co-worker one day and was somewhat dismayed at her critical comments about the woman going to her grown son's home to hold him. I told her I believed it to be written in a literal form so that it could be shared with a young child and that they could understand the more abstract concept of a parents love for their child, that no matter how old they are that their parents love for them does not diminish. I find that to be one of the most moving messages in this book. It is one of the first things I think of as a gift for new parents.
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Summary: Made me cry cuz it frightened me so!
Review: My friend gave me this book when my daughter was born. She said she cried every time she read it to her girls. I anxiously sat down and read it that night. I was stunned at how much I abhorred this book. A mother crawling into her son's room, climbing into his window when he's an adult... too much! It gives me the creeps just thinking about the story and the picture of him cradling her in his arms in the end. Creepy, creepy, creepy.
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