I Love You Because I Love You
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A heart-warming celebration of love in all its forms by the multi-award winning illustrator of Julian is a Mermaid and Julian at the Wedding
I love you because you tell the best stories.
Because I love you, my best story is you.
This powerful picture book from Jessica Love, award winning illustrator of Julian is a Mermaid and Julian at the Wedding, shares all the reasons – big and small – why we love those we love. Joyful, life-affirming, and overflowing with love, this is a book to be treasured as you celebrate the special bond you share with your loved ones.
This is what love looks like.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this call-and-response celebration of love's power to grow and endure, individuals in inclusive pairs—across ability, gender expression, generation, and skin tone—tell the other what their bond means to them. Young and old, skinny and stocky, all are drawn with grace and humor by Love (Julián Is a Mermaid). On the verso of one spread, a child with a long, thick black braid listens to an adult spinning a tale about a dragon: "I love you because you tell the best stories," the child says. On the recto, the same adult holds the face of the now mature youth, whose backpack tells of a journey to come. "Because I love you," the adult says, "my best story is you." On another spread, identical twins with bobbed haircuts and party dresses stand before a birthday cake: "I love you because we go together," writes Va˘n (Wishes). Shown much older on the recto, one twin wears cropped hair and pants: "Because I love you," the text reads, "we change and grow together." Throughout, words and images testify to acceptance, joy, and intimacy over time, and they are worth visiting again and again. Ages 4–8.
