| Love You Forever | 
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| Author: Robert Munsch
Creator: Sheila Mcgraw
Publisher: Firefly Books Ltd.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  793 reviews
Sales Rank: 2090
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 7.8 x 0.2
ISBN: 0920668372
UPC: 000920668373
EAN: 9780920668375
ASIN: 0920668372
Publication Date: September 1, 1995
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Amazon.com Review
The mother sings to her sleeping baby: "I'll love you forever / I'll love you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be." She still sings the same song when her baby has turned into a fractious 2-year-old, a slovenly 9-year-old, and then a raucous teen. So far so ordinary--but this is one persistent lady. When her son grows up and leaves home, she takes to driving across town with a ladder on the car roof, climbing through her grown son's window, and rocking the sleeping man in the same way. Then, inevitably, the day comes when she's too old and sick to hold him, and the roles are at last reversed. Each stage is illustrated by one of Sheila McGraw's comic and yet poignant pastels. (Ages 4 to 8) --Richard Farr
Product Description
A young woman holds her newborn son
And looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him:
"I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be." So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold more than 15 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition (as well as hundreds of thousands of copies in Spanish and French). Firefly Books is proud to offer this sentimental favorite in a variety of editions and sizes: We offer a trade paper and laminated hardcover edition in a 8" x 8" size. In gift editions we carry:
a slipcased edition (8 1/2" x 8 1/4"), with a laminated box and a cloth binding on the book
and a 10" x 10" laminated hardcover with jacket. And a Big Book Edition, 16" x 16" with a trade paper binding. (20050426)
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 Weird, weird book December 3, 2008
I don't know what makes people think this is such a wonderful book. It's really *weird*. The mother creeps along the floor of her sons room at night to crawl into bed with him. Then, when he leaves the house as an adult, she drives across town with a ladder, and climbs up into his bedroom window at night while he's sleeping. It's CREEPY. Don't buy this book thinking it's "all nice and stuff". It's not, it's downright weird.
 Mom's Signature December 2, 2008
First of all, the people who are saying this book is "creepy" are taking it way too literally. It's a sweet sentimental message that parents are going to love their children no matter what- throwing things in the toilet, moving away, etc. My mom read this book to us throughout our childhood, and I never suffered any emotional trauma from it. On top of that, she gives it as a gift to expectant mothers we know. The book flips views at the end as the son goes to be with his mother when she can no longer come to see him.
To this day my mom signs cards and letters to the three of us with, "Love you forever, like you for always, for as long as I'm living my baby you'll be."
This book seems to depict a mother with serious issues. December 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I do not understand how people can claim this is a healthy depiction of a mother's love. The mother in this book understands no boundaries. It is very creepy that she sneaks into her grown son's room using a ladder after driving across town. While I understand and approve of the concept of unconditional love and being a mother myself have often told my girl that she will always be my baby, I do not believe in the extreme links this mother went to. Why does everyone ignore the obvious mental health issues?
If I could give less than one start I would. December 1, 2008
This book is awful. I'm so glad others have found it as disturbing as I did. We got it as a gift, and thankfully I read it prior to sitting and reading it to my kids. Its down right creepy. Odd at best. Don't waste your money. Even the illustrations are poor.
Lovely for Parents, Fine for Children ca. 4 and Up November 27, 2008
Like others, I choke up with tears every single time I read this, but I also don't think it's truly appropriate for very young children who still don't understand death or have a developed sense of time. I would think this would be appropriate for ages 4-5 and up.
That said, I think some of the complaints are misguided: they are missing the story's innocence and the veiled humor in the persistence of the mother. I also think that at some point even children have to learn about death, and what better way than through the story of a mother that loves her child no matter what?
However, I want to add another angle: the repetition of the main "chorus" "I'll love you forever, I'll love you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be." As musicians, my wife and I sing these lines to our son, and the repetition of these lines is heightened when sung. You don't have to be an opera diva or even sing in tune, but if you're musically inclined even a little bit, try softly singing it to these pitches (transposed up or down, one note per syllable):
I'll love you forever, I'll love you for aways, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.
G-C-D-E-E-D, A-D-E-F-F-D, B-B-C-D-D-B, B-C-D-E-C.
Crazy idea? Maybe, but it makes singing these repeated lines touching rather than boring.
All in all, I absolutely love this book and think it's innocence and presentation of the continuity of life through the love parents have for their children transcends any strange implications others are reading into it.
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