Love+You+Forever

= Love You Forever = Written by Robert Munsch Illustrated by Publisher: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD Published: 01 September 1995 32 pages ISBN: 9780920668375
 * Bibliographic Data **

This is a story of how a mother will love her children no matter how old they get or how big they are. This book goes through the course of life showing how a mom's job is never done and how they will always be there for their children even if they have to drive across town to make their child feel better. As the man grows up and his mother gets too old and frail, the roles swap as he takes care of her and his new daughter therefore passing on the tradition.
 * Summary **

I chose this book because as a child this was one of my favorite books to listen to my mother read to me. She used to cuddle up in bed with me and sing me the song in the book. My favorite part of the book is when the mother becomes a grandmother and the roles reverse and she gets taken care of. This is the kind of tradition that I want to continue in my home with my kids and even my mother when she becomes old and I get to return the love.
 * Review **

Robert Munsch was born June 11, 1945 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His mother always expressed to him that he never grew up and was always acting like he was 6 years old. He wrote poetry all through elementary school and in high school decided he would be a Catholic Priest. While studying over the next 7 years to be a priest he also got a history degree and an anthropology degree. He then decided to student teach and made his first book then. He is still alive today but has OCD and manic depressive disorder.
 * Author Biography **

The ideas of how the characters develop through this story are what makes this book unique. Showing how everyone grows up and that tradition is important is an essential piece to the puzzle. The showing of maturity in the characters as they grow up is essential for children to understand and this book does it flawlessly. Through the growing up of the child to father brings us through the different phases of humanity and shows that not everyone is perfect and that no matter what you do family is always going to be important. The grandmothers transition from mother to grandma was done very well because it wasn't very sudden that she became old, it was progressive just like the rest of the characters. This book shows us about the circle of life and the caring nature of parents.
 * Analysis of Literacy Element (Character Development) **