Let Me Hold You Longer (Kingsbury, Karen)

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Summary: A beautiful and emotional read!
Review: I received this wonderful book as a Christmas gift. It is written truly from the HEART! And whenever I read it, it felt like I had written it straight from MINE. I could not keep from tearing up. It sends such a wonderful reminder message to us that our children do not stay little forever. Even though we all know that, we tend to get busy with day-to-day life and let the little things slip away with time. One important thing this book points out is that we tend to have pictures and records of important FIRSTS of our children, but we don't have those for the LASTS, because we never know when the last time they do something is going to come, and we're not looking for the lasts, as we look for the firsts. I could go on and on about this beautifully written and illustrated book, but you need to read it for yourself. I'm sure your heart will be touched as mine, and you will feel like Karen Kingsbury looked deep into YOUR heart and wrote down everything she saw.


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Summary: A beautiful, rhyming picturebook
Review: Let Me Hold You Longer is a beautiful, rhyming picturebook about the all too transitory joys of childhood and growing up. Warm, playful color illustrations add depth to the wistful verses that are a joy to read aloud to young ones. "The last piano lesson, / last vacation to the lake. / Your last few weeks of middle school, / last soccer goal you make. // I look ahead and dream of days / that haven't come to pass. / But as I do, I sometimes miss / today's sweet, precious lasts...


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Summary: Excellent
Review: Very touching book. An excellent reminder to enjoy our children while they are little and to not be in such a hurry to have them grow up. I personally have it sitting around more as a reminder to myself than a book that I read to my children, however I have read it to my children and they did enjoy looking at the attractive illustrations.