I Love You, Baby! - Hardcover

Freedman, Claire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1481499041 ISBN 13: 9781481499040

Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2017

Synopsis

From the team behind My Grandparents Love Me comes a sweet celebration of the love between a parent and a new baby.

Three tiny words—I Love You,
Seem too small for me to show,
How much I love you Baby...

There is no love quite like the love between a parent and child. This sweet meditation on all of the things a parent loves about his or her little one is illustrated with a variety of irresistible animal families.

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About the Author

Claire Freedman is the author of several picture books, including Pirates Love Underpants!; Dinosaurs Love Underpants!; Aliens Love Underpants!; Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones; One Magical Day; A Magical Christmas; Dilly Duckling, and My Grandparents Love Me. She lives in Essex, England.

Judi Abbot studied illustration in Milan, Italy. She is the author and illustrator of Mouse’s Christmas Wish. She is also the illustrator of several books for children, including The Biggest Kiss, The Perfect Hug, I Love Dad, and I Love Mom, all written by Joanna Walsh, and My Grandparents Love Me by Claire Freedman.

Review

A love song of sorts from parent to child, illustrated with animal families and a surfeit of snuggles. First-person, rhyming verse expresses parental love for children, with double-page spreads devoted to animal families that exemplify each loving statement. In keeping with the singular first-person text and title, there is always one parent on a given spread, but the number of offspring depicted varies. An early spread depicts a family of cheetahs or leopards lounging in a tree with text reading "I love your sleepy wake-up smile, as we start our day. / I love our morning cuddles, and the way we laugh and play." The closing picture is of a house cat curled up in an armchair with five kittens at day's end alongside text that reads "So snuggle down and close your eyes, the night is soft and still. / I love you, love you, love you, and I always, always will!" Between these feline lovefests, polar bears, dogs, bees, snakes, and many other animals, all anthropomorphized to greater or lesser extent, appear in affectionate tableaux to accompany the text. The sweet-as-sugar illustrations are painted in an Easter-egg palette with rounded forms and occasional heart embellishments to reinforce the text's theme. Sure to find love on the baby-shower circuit. (Picture book. 1-3)  Author: Kirkus Reviews Source: 7/1/17

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1481499041
• ISBN 13: 9781481499040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Abbot Judi