Love You Forever

By Robert Munsch
Firefly, $19.95

ISBN 1895565669

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Review by Etta Wilson

Now if you were going to write a moving book about the mother/child bond, would you picture on the cover a two-year-old about to drop his mother's watch down the toilet after demolishing the bathroom? Such is the juxtaposition in both art and text that has moved millions to buy Love You Forever.

Author Robert Munsch understands the conflict parents feel as they find one mess after another created by their offspring-both around the house and in the world beyond. He also understands how the bonds of love are formed within a family.

Munsch has captured parents' commitment to their offspring in the verse a mother sings each night to her boy:

I'll love you forever,/ I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living,/ My baby you'll be.

The key words here are forever and always. It is the ongoing nature of family relationships, the shared time and experiences to be remembered, that remind us of our stake in eternity.

Firefly Books has issued a hardcover slipcased edition of the already classic Love You Forever just right for Mother's Day. If you can't find the words to say to those closest to you, you can give the words of Robert Munsch. He understands.

Etta Wilson is the Children's Book Editor for this publication.

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