Of Course I Would Recommend "Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch to Children!

As a child, one of my favorite books that my mom would read to us was, "Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch.  I loved it for many reasons such as, the way it made me feel when my mom would squeeze us tight while reading the, "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be." lines.  As well as, when she would read it a few times in one night because we loved it so much. 

It is about how a mother raises her boy with unconditional love, and rocks him while he sleeps singing the "I'll love you forever..." song even when he grows to be an adult and she drives to his house just to do so (not every night, of course!).  Eventually, the mom gets old and sick and calls the son to come see her and he rocks her while singing the same "I'll love you forever..." song that she always sang to him.  Then he comes home and picks up his baby daughter and does the same to her. 

While reading this book we didn't aknowledge that the boy got away with doing bad things while growing up and there was no mention of reprimand.  We would just laugh at the silly pictures of the boy as a baby tearing apart the bathroom, him dragging mud into the house, and using a lamp as a microphone, then the mother saying that sometimes she wanted to sell him to the zoo!  My mom would always say at that part, "sometimes I want to sell YOU to the zoo!"

We never realized that the mom had to call her son to come see her when she was sick and that was when he rocked her.  What we did realize was that he did go rock her, sang the song to her, and then did the same for his daughter.  I would, without a doubt, recommend this book for children of all types.  I believe all children deserve unconditional love from their parents and they need to see that they can give it back.  They also deserve to read books about it!  I would also recommend this book for parents so that they might see how to give unconditional love, or perhaps more enough love.  I love this book, and I plan on reading it frequently to my children.

To purchase this book or  to learn more about the author and more of his books visit:

http://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372

http://robertmunsch.com/