Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch: Chelsea Martin
Love You Forever is such a wonderful children's book that I am proud to say makes me cry every time. The story is about a mother who rocks her son to sleep by saying the same words, "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be." The story goes through the stages of the boys life from being a baby, to a boy, to a teenager, to a grown man. No matter what his age, she always rocks him to sleep. Finally when the mother becomes an old lady and the son has moved out of the house, she goes to his house to check on him and rocks him to sleep. She eventually becomes too sick to say the words, so the son rocks his mother to sleep. The story ends with the son rocking his own daughter to sleep to carry on the loving tradition. Many children love this book no matter what gender. It has a catchy rhyme that repeats several times that would be easy to get the students involved in participating with the story. This would be a great book to share with students when talking about the stages of life and growing up. I could use this book in a reading center for the students to read when the time is available.
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I was so excited to see that people used this story for their book blog. Even though I am twenty years old, this simple picture book is one that I treasure. I fist heard this story on a Christian retreat last summer called Chrysalis. Since then I have teamed on two other Chrysalis “flights” (name we use for each weekend retreat) and each time we use this story to exemplify the unending love of Jesus and how we as Christians should also share that same love with others. I would completely agree with sharing this story with young children and I believe that it would have an incredible impact on their attitude towards family relationships and the value of saying “I love you” to one another. My boyfriend (who also teams on Chrysalis and is very familiar with this story) and I sing the “chorus” of the book (“I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be”) to each other as a silly way of expressing our feelings for one another and it also reminds us of the special time we have during the Chrysalis weekends.
I will always remember this book because my mom would read this to me all the time when I was younger. I still remember the one line from it "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I live, My baby you'll be". It is a cute book for a mother to read for there child. I know when my mother read it to me I always imagined one day that I would be holding her reading this book to her, as he does in the book. I always enjoyed it when my mother would read me this book.
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