Format: Soft Cover
Age: 1+
This book tells the story of a mother who is rocking her newborn baby and sings, "I'll love you forever. I'll like you for always.As long as I'm living. My baby you'll be." As the child grows older she sneaks into his room while he is sleeping and rocks him and sings the same thing. Even when he is an adult and leaves the house she goes over to his house at night. She gets older and he comes to her house and does the same for her and then goes home and rocks his own newborn and sings the song his mother sang to him. Children will like to look at the images and will be interested in the story. The illustrations are very well done, you can not only see the son aging, but the mother aging slightly throughout each page. The story is very sentimental and one that would make this a good book for a parent or grandparent to read to a child before bedtime. Parents will understand the sentiment more than their children most likely, but still it is a nice book to share.
Author's website: http://robertmunsch.com/
Illustrator's website: http://www.sheilamcgraw.com/
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