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Summary: The Underlying Creepiness Makes For A Sick Book
Review: On the surface, it's a really sweet book about a mother who really loves her baby boy as he grows to manhood, no matter how goofy or annoying he may be in the process. Periodically she visits him and sings the song.If it were just that, it'd be an all time classic. But it takes the simple concept to disturbing extremes that have to be seen to be believed. Anyone who's had a baby in their family knows there's nothing cuter than looking at them while they're sleeping. The mother in the book knows this and sneaks into his room at night to peek at her angel, and sing her little song to him. Nothing wrong with that, right?Only it doesn't stop there. When the boy is a teenager she CRAWLS into his room on all fours and, "If he was really asleep she picked up that great big boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth" while she sang her song. I don't know about you but if I was 15 and woke up in my bed with my Mom holding me like that, I'd probably scream. Who knows what kind of weird dreams this poor boy was having? Well at least when this poor lad moves out of the house, he won't have to deal with his mother's obsessive habits anymore...or does he? Yep, once he's full grown, according to the book, "...sometimes on dark nights his mother got into her car and drove across town." YIKES! Not only is that scarier than hell that she's driving with a ladder strapped to her car in the middle of the night, but she makes a regular habit of it. Mommy climbs up his house, crawls through his window and does the same thing. Man this guy sleeps better than anyone I've ever known! Well, you can see by looking at this small single bed that he never got married. And he had such a healthy upbringing, too. Though the book takes a poignant dramatic turn when he hears his mother isn't doing well and he goes to visit her. As he holds his dying mother in his lap, he turns the tables and sings the song to her. But wait a minute! I thought he was asleep during all those other times. Looks like he was playing along with this little sick little game a little too eagerly. At this point, you feel bad for making fun of the book at all 'cause his mother has passed away. The son returns home, though, and picks up his baby girl and sings the song to her. But from everything we've seen in the book, the guy lives alone. The only woman he ever sees at night is his Mom. Leaving the only possible mother of his child to be...OH MY GOD!!! If you still think this book is sweet and that I'm missing the true spirit of LOVE YOU FOREVER, just switch the genders of the characters in this story and tell me that wouldn't be extra creepy.
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Summary: Beautiful Book
Review: I absolutley love this book!!! I have no children yet, but everytime I read this book I cry! It's such a great book with beautiful pictures. I can't wait to have children of my own so that I can read it to them. I know I'll love them forever!!! Anyone who has children has to have a copy of this book. I just think about it and get teary eyed. I recommened it to everyone of all ages.
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Summary: My Children Love This Book
Review: It took me a gazillion read-throughs before I could end the story dry-eyed, but my children have adored this book forever (they're now 4 and 7). They think a lot of it is hysterically funny (the shenanigans of the younger children, the ridiculous idea of the mother driving around at night with a ladder on her car so she can snuggle her grown son), but they also find it tremendously comforting that, no matter what a child may do, Mom will love them forever. "Love You Forever" is different in tone from the rest of Munsch's work, which tends to be far more lighthearted and even more wonderfully ludicrous (e.g. giant farts attacking all the grownups, or a little girl trying to find someone to take care of a baby she's pulled out of a hole in the sandbox). Give 'em a try as well!
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Summary: A classic for parents and kids
Review: I think this book is sweet and it brings across the message of unconditional love. Those reviewers that talk of it being creepy or weird at the end need to be reminded that it is fiction and is written for kids. I think the author is trying to drive home the message that your parents will love you FOREVER not just when a child is little. I find the end interesting - it becomes the child's turn and I like that.
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Summary: A Beautiful, Touching Parable
Review: 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.
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Summary: Worth Sharing
Review: My youngest son's kindergarten teacher gave me this book 8 years ago - and since, I give this to everyone close to me that is expecting a son. The story line to to be taken symbolically and I weap each time I tell someone about the book. I have a 15 year old & 13 year old sons, and would do far more than drive across town and crawl in their windows to be able to express my love for them. I believe it shows how a mother can teach a son/man how to cherish precious things in his life.
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Summary: Schmaltzy
Review: Okay. People are supposed to like this book. I think this book was not written for children at all. It was written for parents to read it to children, and it was written to make the parents cry. Now this is my opinion. Lots of people love this book. It probably got awards, but I'm writing this to say that I think this books stinks. Kids, if they were to learn anything from this book might come away with this: parents love their kids when they're sleeping, and kids miss their parents when they're dead. And people grow up and have kids. And then the old people die and the younger people have kids and then everybody gets older and then there are more kids and more dead people. The text of I Love you Forever thinly disguises my paraphrase. Do kids have a better understanding of the life-cycle than adults do? By and large, I would say yes, they do, and it is only two-dimensional, time line books like this one that cause kids to lose their understanding and start to ask questions from adults who, perhaps, know less.
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Summary: Great gift for a parent/ adult child
Review: This is a very sweet book -- I got it because of one of the reccs here, and I liked it so much I gave it to my mother and my mother-in-law as well! Although it does make me cry at the end.
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Summary: I love this
Review: i have loved this book ever since i was a young child.It always made me happy to see that the parents love is unconditoinal.I will share this with my children as they learn and grow in to young women. Thanks, Megan Swenson
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Summary: From Generation to Generation
Review: My mom bought this book for me before I left for college. That Christmas she bought it for all of my brothers AND my new born nephew. She carried that tradition on for her next two grandchildren before she passed away. I have taken it upon myself and continued her tradition of purchasing this book for each new born niece or nephew. Some families have 4 copies! A mother, grandmother or aunts love never fades - it just gets stronger! I highly recommend this book to everyone out there.
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