Love You Forever is a book that touches on growing up. I think it is neat because on every page there is a picture to go along with each stage of life. Each night the picture shows the boy getting older and every night the mother sings the boy to sleep until he is an adult. The mother sings to to her little boy, "I'll love you forever, I'll talk you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be." However by the end of the book, the mother gets too old and they flip roles. The boy starts singing to his mother at night before going home to his baby.
This is such a great story for young children. The relationship that the boy has with his mother is vert uplifting and I always told my mother that I wanted that to be us someday. I could use this book in many ways in my classroom. I could use it to talk about the love of family members and how much you love them. I could also use it to discuss growing up and the different stages. Another way I could use it is just for fun. I could get my students to sing the song that the mother sings to the boy while I am reading. I think students would enjoy singing along and it would be a good way to get them involved and interactive. This book has always been so enjoyable to me. When I become a teacher, I definitely would like to read this to my students.
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I agree "Love You Forever" is a wonderful and sweet story. I can remember my mother reading it to me and then me reading it to her, once I could read, and it always making her cry. I think this book could also be used to talk about how some families are different. In todays time so many children are raised by their grandparents, aunts or uncles, family friends, or just their fathers that I think it is important to talk about how families differ. After reading the story you could point out that it doesn't have to be a mother who does all of these things for her son but that it could be a anyone. Then you could talk as a class about who plays the roll of "the mother" in their lives now. Another idea is letting the students write a story about a significant figure in their life and the things that person does for them. I think it is important to emphasize that it does not have to be a mom because that could make children uncomfortable if they come from a different situation.
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