Love You Forever

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Summary: Very sweet childrens book....a true mothers love!!!
Review: My teacher read this to our 8th grade lit. class. She cried through the book and I wondered why as an 8th grader she was crying from reading a childrens book??? Now that I am grown and a mother of 3 children, I now understand!!!!! Something incredible happened to me---I turned into a mother and now I love this book. Always makes me tear up! My kids love it!!!

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Summary: very emotional
Review: This book gives us a view of the beginning to the end of life, and causes us to really contemplate our values.

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Summary: Touching
Review: I first heard this book when I was at a conference and it brought tears to everyones eyes. The meaning this book brings across is one to hold on to and remember all through your life. This is a very touching story to read no matter what age you are.

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Summary: Family Favorite
Review: The first time I read this book I cried. It was so touching. It has become a favorite that my children read often even though they are all teenagers now. We have experienced many of the same feelings as both the mother and child in the book and always give this to new parents. It is a good way to start a family tradition of reading and singing the song. I also find it a good way to begin to open the lines of comunnication with your child(ren). If you are hesitant or unsure of what to say. This mom allowed her child to grow up, move away but still remained close without smothering him.

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Summary: Love You Forever
Review: A lovely, silly story about a mother and her son. Time after time, mother slips into her son's room, and no matter what sort of mischief he has gotten into, she sings her loving song to him. "I'll Love you forever, I'll love you for always. . . " The ending is too wonderful and touching to tell you. You will just have to read it.

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Summary: Didn't Love "Love You Forever"ÿ
Review: Okay, I admit it--the first time I read this book I teared up, but the emotion didn't remain in further readings. The mother's picking up a grown man is improbable and unnecessary to the story and the pictures are crude. The author had a good idea, but somehow it didn't work for me.

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Summary: One of my ALL time favorite books!
Review: My mother gave this book to me a few years back when I was having a very difficult time leaving my abusive husband. My parents lived 2500 miles away from me and it was very difficult being so far apart. When I read it the first time, my heart opened like a flood gate; emotions and love became overwhelming. I now read this book when I am feeling homesick and/or need a dose of unconditional love. This book is a WONDERFUL gift for Baby Showers. If I could offer a COMPANION: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. These books will bring you such love, comfort and joy. They are truly two of the most personal gifts you can give. You will not be disappointed in either book.

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Summary: Very moving!
Review: I do not have any children, but I love this book. I have purchased it for all my friends with children, as well as my boyfriend's mother. This a wonderful story about the cycles of life and I highly recommend it to anyone at all. I cry EVERY time I read it.

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Summary: Love you forever.
Review: I bought this book when my daughter was born. It translated in words all the meanings of becoming a parent. I recomend this book for everybody, especially new moms like I was. It is such a loving reality. I just love it.

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Summary: Moving Story about Loving Your Child
Review: This is a fantastic picture book that is a metaphor for the overwhelming love one feels for their child (no matter what age). For all of those readers who can only read in co-dependent, Oedipal, or Freudian themes into this book, you have missed the entire point and have hearts of stone! The fact is that the author Robert Munsch wrote this book as a tribute to his TWO still-born children and that makes this story even more moving especially if you've lost a child or had a miscarriage. The story is an expression of imagining his kids and what they would have been like and how much he would have loved them their whole lives. I found this to be a very emotional and touching story (and I am not a sentimental woman at all). My 3-year-old, rough and tumble, only-loves-the-outside-and-trucks kind of boy really likes this story and has been requesting it for bedtime almost every night. He especially enjoys the verse that is the theme of the book, "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as you're living, my baby you'll be." My son wants to hear us say that to him. And again to all those who wrote and thought that this book was "sick"; face it, you might not have liked how this book was portrayed, but you'll love your kids forever, no matter how old they'll get, and in spite of what they will do throughout the phases of their lives that might frustrate you. In fact, my husband likes this story so much that he plans to get it for his mother for Mother's Day. This is a must-have children's book!