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Summary: A wonderful book
Review: Our son received this book as a gift on his second birthday. It is a wonderfully charming book of one upsmanship between little nutbrown hare and big nutbrown hare, each trying to outdo one another in describing the magnitude of their love for each other. Its message is simple, elegant and full of warmth. After we had read this book to my son a few times, he began saying, "I love you THIIIIIIIS much", holding out his hands as wide as he could. It was absolutely adorable. He is almost three now and he still loves it when we read it to him. This is a book to cherish. It is a sweet story that your child will love. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Eloquent Expressions of Parent-Child Love
Review: Guess How Much I Love You is a well-earned recipient of the Abby Award. This book is very uniquely plotted. Unlike most books for bedtime, the two protagonists are male (apparently father and son, although that is left unstated). And they spend the whole book describing and showing their love for one another. I know of no other book that provides this sort of man-boy modeling about expressing love and appreciation for one another. Yet at the same time, the "maleness" of the two characters is subdued so that the pair could be very easy to see them as female characters (a mother-daughter pair). Obviously, mixed pairs (mother-son and father-daughter) are even easier to imagine. So everyone can relate to expressing love and receiving expressions of love in return when reading this delightful story. The other attraction of this story is that the youngster, Little Nutbrown Hare, takes the lead. He wants to describe his love first. Children can start to be reticent about their feelings beginning around age 4, and this book should help overcome that shyness. Fathers of my generation and older have been reticent since that age with everyone, so this book will help a few parents as well to show their feelings. As for age level, this book should start to appeal at about age 2 1/2 to 3. You will be reading the story to your youngster at that age. In time, with memorization, you will be listening to the story. Later, you child will actually learn to read it to you. The illustrations are gently subdued, to help create a mood of drowsiness. Nicely done, Ms. Anita Jeram! The story opens with Little Nutbrown Hare on his way to sleep. He is riding on top of Big Nutbrown Hare, holding onto the larger hare's very long ears. The plot development begins when Little Nutbrown Hare raises the title challenge: Guess how much I love you. Little Nutbrown Hare uses his body to show how much. Big Nutbrown Hare, being larger, outdoes him when he repeats what Little Nutbrown Hare has said in terms of his own adult body. Little Nutbrown Hare then goes on to use his eyes to create even larger distances to express the greatness of his love. Big Nutbrown Hare comes up with even larger distances, based on his longer experience. As Little Nutbrown Hare goes to sleep after making his greatest expression of love, Big Nutbrown Hare says nothing until after Little Nutbrown Hare is in the land of nod. Then Big Nutbrown Hare makes his final expression of love . . . a very beautiful one (involving about 500,000 miles). After you have finished enjoying this heartfelt story, I suggest that you think about more ways that you can express your love more often to those you care about. Use the concepts in this book to come up with ways to flesh out the simple, "I love you" to make the expression more tangible to the hearer. I suspect you will receive many bouquets of expressed love as a result. May love be with and come from you . . . always!
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Summary: Sweet book for kids, but not a good choice for babies
Review: This is a sweet and tender book, and I look forward to reading it to my son (who's now 23 months) when he is 4 or 5 years old. For babies his age and younger, though, it's not a good pick -- the illustrations are uninteresting for the very young child, and the story doesn't hold his attention either. So even though it's available as a board book, it's not really a good choice for babies and toddlers -- we'll keep our copy on the shelf till he's older.
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Summary: I LIKE THIS BOOK!
Review: I LIKE THIS BOOK VERY MUCH. I LOVE MOMMY AND DADDY RIGHT UP TOTHE MOON AND MARS AND JUPITER AND BACK.
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Summary: Every child should have this book!
Review: This is such a precious story -- it brings tears to my eyes. Ever since we first got the book, our boys have been saying goodnight to us by telling us how much they love us -- "all the way to the sun and moon and stars, and back again!" It's great!
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Summary: Mom of 9 month old Robert
Review: I LOVE THIS BOOK! I have been reading this book to my son for the past 5 months. He sits through it and looks at the pictures. It is the sweetest story about how much a father and son love each other. BUY THIS BOOK!
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Summary: Sweet story, but not my favorite read aloud book
Review: I bought this without reading it beforehand -- and while it is a sweet story with nice pictures; having to read the choppy dialouge and the words "Big Nutbrown Hare" and "Little Nutbrown Hare" on every single page doesn't make it ideal outloud reading to a young baby -- I tried reading it to my 3 month year old -- but she likes books with rhythm and rhyme much better (Jamberry, for one -- and even Green Eggs and Ham) A toddler who can understand the actual words would probably be a better target audience.
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Summary: One of our favorite bedtime books
Review: This is one of my daughter's favorite bedtime books. I always ask her how much I love her and she holds her arms out as far as she can. This book really shows the wonderful relationship between a mother and child. It will always have a special place in my heart. As a note to teachers: I really enjoy reading this book to my class.
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Summary: It doesn't get any better than this
Review: I bought this book for my son when he was 8 months old. He is three and a half and still enjoys it. I love reading it to him, never tiring of the interplay between Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare. The way it is written sets a tone of love from child to parent and parent to child which struck a strong chord in me. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
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Summary: My Kindergarten Class Loves This Story
Review: Guess How Much I Love You is a great story. It is engaging and repeats the same theme. This gives children the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the plot of the story so they want to read this book again and again. The parent child love theme is expressed beautifully in the illustrations. This story is a must have for pre-readers and emergent readers.
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