Love You Forever

by Robert Munsch
Illustrated by Sheila Mcgraw
Published by Firefly Books
Copyright 1987

Summary: Tells the story of a child growing up

Strengths: There are very detailed illustrations with lots of colors. The song the mother sings to her child in the book repeats throughout the story and this reinforces how important a mother's love is for her child. Also, the repeated action of the mother going into the son's room every night shows her love for her son. On the pages that contain just text, the black and white spotted drawings makes these pages more lively.

Concerns: The text pages with no spotted drawings are very plain and the text itself is on the small side. Some events in the story show rambunctiousness from the boy which can give readers the wrong idea of behaving.

Age level: Elementary

Classroom Use: teaches the love of your family and its unconditional love