I Really, Really Love You So
I Really, Really Love You So
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Author(s): Newson, Karl
ISBN No.: 9781664300187
Pages: 32
Year: 202301
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 23.74
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Ayoung animal with huge eyes and outstretched arms declares their love in many ways. In rhyming text, a little animal--possibly a ring-tailed lemur--muses on how best to show their love ("I'd like to find a special way / to show the love in me."). They come up with a number of outlandish ideas on their own (wrestle a crocodile, climb the biggest mountain, etc.) and consider making a gift before hitting on the idea of copying other animals to see how they convey their love. After a narrow escape from an annoyed bear, the narrator describes the feeling of love and reiterates the titular message, hugging a grown-up of the same species with homemade gifts (now completed, despite earlier frustration) scattered around. It's a familiar premise, but the silliness of the different scenarios cuts what could otherwise be cloying sweetness. Some illustrations are full-bleed, with backgrounds of either bright solid colors or different imagined scenes (ocean, mountaintop, jungle); there is enough visual detail to hold readers' interest on multiple rereads but not so much that anything important would be lost in a larger group read-aloud.


Nothing groundbreaking but a sweet choice nonetheless. (Picture book. 0-3) --Kirkus Reviews.


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