A World of Love

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Author(s)

Aimee Elizabeth Reid

Co-Authors / Illustrators

Christopher Lyles

Publisher

Nancy Paulsen Books

Genre(s)

Age Range

Release Date

January 02, 2024

ISBN

978-1524739812

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Animal parents shower their little ones with love in so many unique ways. Doves coo and dolphins whistle, while penguins huddle with their chicks for warmth and mountain goats shield their kids’ falls. Eye-catching collage illustrations and a lyrical text invite readers to explore animal behavior around the globe and celebrate the universal nature of a caregiver’s love.

Editor review

1 review

Updated I LOVE YOU FOREVER

March 12, 2024

Overall rating

4.5

Plot

4.0

Characters

4.0

Writing Style

5.0

Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)

5.0

Through traditional, rhymed verse, we see all of the ways that parents keep their babies safe all over the world. With delightful parallel construction that will make this one that the listeners can chant along with after just a read or two, we see birds, lambs, fennec foxes, and a menagerie of other animals first searching their children and then cuddling up with them in safety. There is a nice page of "fun facts" about each of the dozen animals at the end of the book.

Good Points

Lyles illustrations are reminiscent of the work of the great Eric Carle and are rendered in hand painted paper collages with pencil and crayon highlights. This gives a lot of depth to the details of the animals; the birds' wings are particularly lovely. The palette changes depending on the environment, so there are green hills for the sheep and deep blue oceans for the dolphins.

The use of the names of the different types of animal babies is nice to see in the refrain ("my calf, my calf"; also kids, chicks, and foals) interspersed with terms of endearment, and this would lend the book to a nice extension activity of finding out the names of different animal offspring.

This reads like a Runaway Bunny or I Love You Forever for the new millenium, since the Brown and Munsch titles, respectively, haven't aged all that well. In addition to being a sweet book about the enduring love that parents have for children, it's a good book to teach about young creatures, along with Larsen's All of Those Babies, Jenkins' Find Out About Animal Babies, and the classic Little Golden Book illustrated by Garth Williams, Baby Animals.