Love You Forever

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Summary: Adults, along with kids, love this book.
Review: I have a summer library program at our local school and we've read lots of books, but this book stands out as a favorite. the love that is shown between the mother and son and the way their roles are reversed, always touches the kids and me as I read it.

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Summary: This is a very sick book
Review: Love you Forever portrays a bizarre and sick relationship between a child and mother. It portrays the mothers' dependency on her child's infancy as an ideal. Where is the father? Why is this mother crawling across the floor to see her sleeping son? Why is she climbing a ladder and crawling across the son's bed when he is grown? What is the moral of this book? That a mother will always perceive her child as a baby and not as a mature adult? I cannot understand the popularity and praise of this extraordinarily disturbing book

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Summary: A story of love that transends generations...sweetly.
Review: When I found out that I was going to be a grandmother for the first time (just a few weeks ago) I knew that Ihad to find "Love You Forever" to give to my son...soon to be dad. When I first read it, in a friend's home, I knew it would be the book to give someday for this happy announcement. I hope my son knows that I will love him forever and hope that this wondeful feeling will soon grow to include his child. This is a classic book to express love between mother and child..and soon to be grandchild. Sandra McCaffert

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Summary: Beautiful and touching book for anyone who has loved a child
Review: This is one of the best children's books I've ever read. It will make you roll over laughing one minute and bring tears to your eyes the next. The illustrations are delightful. Anyone has ever raised or loved a child will feel that this story is about them

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Summary: Love is.....
Review: For a truly heartwarming love story of parent and child, don't miss this sure-to-be classic. I first heard this lovely tale read on "Grandparent's Day" at my kindergartner's school. With all the children sitting around on the floor at her feet, the teacher read and sang the story. Eyes misted, tears fell, and I was hooked. I am raising four of my grandchildren. We each have our own copy and we read...and sing the song of the heart. I also sent copies to my other two grandchildren who live out of state. I call them on the phone and sing "the song". If they are not home I sing on the answering machine. Next to receive the book will be my grown children. We are so blessed to be a part of Robert Munschs' inspiration. This is more than a book. It is an experience. I hope that when my grandchildren are my age, one of their fondest memories will be "Love You Forever"

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Summary: The greatest!
Review: If you want to see a bunch of hardened Social Workers cry; read them this book. We sat around and boo hooed like babies. If more parents read this book to their children I might be out of a job; wouldn't that be wonderful? May "Love You Forever" never go out of print.

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Summary: Read with a box of tissues
Review: This is a short and sweet story that captures the parent/child bond of love. It brings a tear to my eye every time I read it. It runs along the same line as "The Giving Tree" and makes a great Mother's day gift.

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Summary: A 15 year old girl's perspective.
Review: I adore this book! My mom read it to me all the time when I was little. This is a wholesome book that sends a message of love, not death to a child. I'm sure there are a handful of children who focus on the ending, but not many. And the adults who focus on the ending are obviously unable to handle the concept of death. This book doesn't send a message of incest or inappropriate interaction between a mother and child. It tells the story of a loving relationship between a mother and son that lasts beyond the realm of childhood. In fact, when I have children of my own, I will buy my own copy (perhaps sooner) and read it to them.

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Summary: I think this book scarred me for life as a child
Review: My Mom used to read this book to me as a child. I am 19 now, almost 20. I believe that this book contributed to my early anxiety about death. I can remember my Mom reading this to me when I was younger, and afterwards, there would usually be tears in her eyes because she found it so sweet and touching. I, on the other hand, hated this book. It made me sad and scared about getting old and having my Mom and Dad get old as well. Eventually, I asked my Mom to stop reading it to me.

For most of my childhood, I was scared of my parents dying. I also had a lot of anxiety about growing up, even at the tender age of 9. I remember crying myself to sleep the night before I turned 10 years old because I knew that after that night, I would no longer be a 1-digit age, but a 2 and maybe even a 3-digit age number. I didn't want to get older because I knew that someday I would die, but I had an even greater fear about my parents dying. I contribute some of this to this book, "Love You Forever" by Robert N. Munsch. Of course I can't blame all of that fear of death to this book, but when I think back on my childhood and the things that emotionally impacted me the most negatively, this book always comes to mind. I think there are so many other better childrens books out there that convey the love between a Mother and her child much better than this depressing and often creepy book does!

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Summary: Little obsessive are we?
Review: Let me ask you a couple of things:
1.How would you feel about your mother sneaking into your room on her hands and knees and watching you sleep and then cuddling you like a baby when you are a teenager? "My mom gives me reassuring hugs" - ok. "My mom rocks me to sleep and sneaks into my room" - wimpy and creepy

2. You are about 25 yrs old. Do you think it's normal for your mother to drive out to your house with a ladder, sneak into your room via burglar style, stare at you and continue to rock you to sleep? There must've been a reason for you moving out of your house in the first place right? So she is coming back every night and has to climb through the window as opposed to the door because....why?

3. Aren't there less-obsessive ways to show your kids you love them rather than scaring them into thinking you will always be there - ALWAYS.....no matter what? Why not just tell your kids "You can run.....but you can't hide....*evil-mom smile*"

Enough said.