By: Robert Munsch
Copyright 1987
Firefly Books
Picture Book
Young Readers
28 Pages
One of the cutest stories that a mother can read to a child (sorry I guess I am a bit bais). It is a story about a mother watching her son grow up. From a baby to a grown up man everynight she will crawl into his room and make sure that he is REALLY asleep and then she would rock him back and forth and sing to him "I'll love you forver, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be." From baby to tadler to boy to teenager she does it everynight. Even as an adult and he moves out some nights she will drive across town just to hold her son and sing to him. One day she grew old and her son came to visit her. When he got there she tried to sing him the song but only got half way through, she couldnt sing to him because she was too old and sick. Her son held her and sang "I'll love you forver, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my mommy you'll be." When the son left his mothers house he went home and thought for a long time. Late that night he went ino his daughters bedroom and sang to her.
"I'll love you forver, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be."
I would recomend this book to anyone. To mothers to hold their kids and read to them. I say mothers mainly because this book is about a mother and her child, but yes, fathers need to read to their kids too, it ends with the the father singing so I guess it is ok. But I do believe strongly that this book is one to be read to parent to child.
I dont think anything was wrong with this book. But on a lihter note me and my friends were talking and one brought up why their was no dad it was only a mom and with the son it was only him and child and no wife. We laughed for a little bit about it.
I love this book. I cry ever time I read it or it is read to me. It is one of my favorite books that I grew up on and was read all the time to me by my mommy who cried when she read it.
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