FICTION

My Love Is for You

by Susan Musgrave
illus. by Marilyn Faucher. 24p. Orca. Mar. 2019. Board $9.95. ISBN 9781459818460.
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Toddler-PreS–An unidentified speaker compares the attributes of her love to common occurrences in nature. "The shadow of a buttercup, the sigh of a moth, that's how tender my love is." Love's fierceness is like a mother bear "cuddling her cubs." The strength of love is like "wild winds." Folksy nature illustrations are rendered in watercolor and gouache. Bold, high-contrast spreads show a deer and a fawn running through a field during a rainstorm, a horse and a foal galloping through the snow, and Canada geese flying over cozy country cottages. However, this book will struggle to find an audience; the comparisons are too abstract for youngsters to grasp, and the text is lofty and impersonal. A more practical snuggle-up companion for caregiver and child is Amy Krouse Rosenthal's That's Me Loving You or Sam McBratney's classic Guess How Much I Love You??
VERDICT For exhaustive collections only.
Reviewed by Richelle Rose, Kenton County Public Library, KY , Mar 01, 2019

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