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Summary: Sweetest Book I've Ever Read!
Review: Someone introduced this book to me at a playgroup this morning wow! I read it right there & was teary eyed with a big smile on my face... I came home & ordered a few! It's not just for those with boys, it can apply to girls too. But being a Mom to two boys, it really hit home.. the author starts off with a Mom signing to her newborn boy & then follows him throughout his life, always picking him up signing a certain little poem, even when he is an adult.. it is then the "boys" turn to hold his sick Mom & the story begins again when he is signing this poem to his baby daughter... for me, I thought of my husband who lost him Mother several years ago.. I think he will appreciate this book also... the story has beautiful meaning & great illustration.... I would highly recommend this book to one & all!
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Summary: Hate to be another party pooper but...
Review: This book is absolutely horrible for children! It's right up there with The Giving Tree in terms of giving kids a warped view of what real life and realtionships should be about. Nevermind that even the angles of the illustrations promote a feeling of sneakiness, nevermind that the mother's face is half hidden behind the bed as she's crouched stalking her sleeping child. Nevermind the fact that this woman is driving across town at midnight to break into her adult son's house and ordering him to come see him because she's old and sick... Not once, the entire time he's growing up, does she express this (obsessive) love she has for him during the day when he can be a part of it. That, I think, says it all. This is a book of pure nostalgia and it is meant for adults. By reading it to children you put the burden of love and codependence on them. That's not fair.
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Summary: Wonderful Book!
Review: I started crying at about halfway through when I picked this up at the bookstore last weekend and was bawling even just telling my husband about it. It's a book more for a parent than a child, and being grateful for what you have.I honestly have no idea why anyone would find this book to be 'creepy' at all -- some of what several of the negative reviewers were saying was not anything I saw in the books at all -- nor would it be anything any other reasonable person would see. If they interpret such messages from such a simple book one could suppose that they went into reading it looking for such trouble instead. Take the book for what it is -- the simple lesson of sharing love from one generation to the next.
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Summary: Demented
Review: I totally agree with the librarian who wrote about this book being a horror story. I think people are too caught up with the theme of a story of "tables turned" which is "as a young child is taken care of BY his/her parent, so must the parent eventually be taken care OF." However, an old "granny" as depicted in this book, is able to climb a ladder nightly to cradle her adult son - come one! get real here! In addition, the illustrations are totally out of proportion and give a sense of oddity to the whole story. One final warning, be careful who you give this book to. I gave it as a gift to my aging mother, who thought it was a nightmare! She didn't cry out of sentiment, but took offense and thought I was ready to spoon feed her and carry her up to her death bed!
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Summary: Great gradution gift
Review: My son is 19 and going to college next year, and I am giving him a copy of this book for his gradution gift. The book says what I want to say to him at this time of his life.
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Summary: IF you have a son this is the one for you!
Review: Love you Forever was given to me when I first had my son. I cried half way through this childs book! Who ever thought a childs book could be that touching for adults? If you have a son, your love is expressed right through this book. A mother talks to her son when she sneakss in his room at night just to hold him and tell him she will always love him,and be there for him. As he gets older she does this often,even when the boy becomes a man. This may be comical to some but for all you mothers you will understand this and bond wit this book, as a mother bonds with her baby boy. In the end when the boy is a man he goes to his mother because she is old and tired, he holds and rocks her and repeats to her what she has told him all his life,about "loving you forever",he goes home that night and shows the same unconditional love to his baby daughter. What a touching story for all ages.If only more writers could express a mothers true love for her child. Give this book to all the moms you know.What an excellent mothers day gift!
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Summary: An Unintentional Horror Story that Makes "Psycho" Look Tame
Review: I'm a school librarian, and before that I was a children's librarian. I've listened to many people discuss the way this moved them. Judging from many of the comments here, it continues to do so. I have always found this book to be one creepy story. It starts off fine. A mother sings to her boy when he's little, picks him up and rocks him. She loves him forever. Fine. Very sweet. I'm with the story at this point. Much later, the mother is elderly. The boy--now a man--takes his frail mother in his arms, and gently rocks her. He tells her that he'll love her forever. Then he goes to his own child's room, picks up his child, and, just as his mother did to him when he was a boy, whispers that he'll love the child forever. Great. That's fine, too. The scenes in the middle of the book, though, have always struck me as something that meets at the intersection of "Oedipus Rex," "Hamlet," and "The Grifters." The images of the mother cradling her adolescent son are disturbing, and the image of her driving to her grown son"s house to continue this nighttime ritual makes me hope that this man doesn't make his living by running a hotel in which Janet Leigh is due to take a shower. These "nightly visits by Mommy" scenes also make the book's conclusion disturbing. The father will now carry on this same ritual with his child, coming into bed even when the child has grown to adulthood. These nighttime visits will become part of this child's upbringing as well. Yikes. I've enjoyed many stories concerning a parent's love for a child ("Olivia" and the Little Bear books come to mind, as does "The Velveteen Rabbit."). If this book were the story of father's love for his daughter--a story of a dad who makes nightly visits to his daughter for coddling and nursery rhymes, even after the girl grows to womanhood--many more people would write about the creepy qualities of this book. Sorry folks, but this book is a great icebreaker for a parent who wants to put the moves on his or her child. Beware.
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Summary: I have yet to read this book without tears!
Review: This is such a powerful, sweet little story. Every time I read it to my kids I get choked up.. have to stop.. try to pull myself together. It's very emotional, without being morose at all. Just a simple story, a sweet little song, and a "circle of life" theme that, in its simplicity, has this amazing power to bring one to tears. And it's not just me; I handed this one to my friend to read in a bookstore, and she started crying, too. I joined in, and we were both very embarrassed, and laughing and crying at the same time. You have to read this one for yourself, in order to understand. The story itself does not appear to be wringing out one's emotions intentionally; it's just there, a simple little song, but it just sort of pulls on one's heart and creates this wonderful effect. Recommended, but don't blame me if you cry over it.
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Summary: You'll cry even after the 1000th reading!
Review: This was a gift when my son was born in Feb. '98. We have read it over and over. We even have a "tune" that we sing the "I'll love you forever" to. Every time I read this book, tears flood my eyes. It makes you appreciate how valuable and prescious the time with your children is. The book is about a mother that sings a song to her ever growing son, as she rocks him on her lap. It takes you from infancy right through adulthood. It is a fantastic book that every mother, father and child will adore for years to come.
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Summary: A Mommy Must Have
Review: I gave this book to my mom on her first mother day's and she was thrilled. I loved the pictures and I love the little poem. I will love you forever/ I will like you for always/ As long as I'm living/ My baby you'll be. It is so sweet and the mother sings it to her new born, then he grows and she sings it to him every stage of his life. Baby, toddler, nine-year old, teen, and grown man. But then one the mother gets sick, and the son comes over and rocks her back and forth singing the poem. Then he goes home and sings it to his new born. It is a beautiful story, that I think every mother should own. I know my mom loves it.
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