Monday, February 24, 2025

*Review* I Love You by Mary Murphy

 

Genre: Children's 2-4 years
Published: January 2, 2024
Pages: 32


Bring love and joy to your child’s bedtime by reading them this enchanting picture book about a big and little panda expressing how much they love each other.

Take a moment to sit down and read with your little one as this cute pair of pandas compare their love to all the things they see. Dandelion clocks, tabby kittens, and building bricks are just some of the fun items in the 
rhyming couplets that cascade through this beautiful read. This fun and bouncy text will keep your child engaged as they grow from baby to toddler. With a vivid yellow color scheme, this sweet book is a visual as well as an emotional joy. The contrasting yellow and black help with eyesight development in babies, and children will love spotting the fun little details as they get older.

A cute and colorful way to show your child the deep affection between parent and child, grandparent and child, and more, and a new take on the phrase ‘I love you to the moon and back’. A story which pulls on the heartstrings, and a
 touching read to share with little ones this Valentine's Day.


I received a copy of this book through Netgalley. This is my honest review. 

This book uses short rhyming phrases about all the different ways the mom loves her cub. Or it might be all the ways the cub loves their mom. It's not actually very clear in the story, but based on the synopsis I think it's the former. That makes this book perfect for the littlest of littles in your home. 

This is one of those books that you will likely have to read many times over, and you will probably hate it by the time you're done. But that means it's a really good and appealing book to your children. That's just the curse of parenthood right there. The illustrations were very yellow with bold lines. 

Overall I give I Love You 3.7946 out of 5 stars. - Katie 




Mary Murphy is a Dublin-based author-illustrator of over 40 books; from board books for babies to fiction for children. With an advanced diploma in Visual Communications, Mary harnesses the power of pictures and words to develop both the eyesight and speech of babies and children as they grow. Her first book was written and published in 1997. Her ever-popular debut is all about a young penguin and older penguin who list the things they like to do together. It won the Parenting Magazine Gold Medal. Since then, she has gone on to receive a string of starred reviews and accolades in the USA, UK, and Ireland for her work, which has also been adapted for TV. In Children’s Books Ireland’s 2018 campaign to mark the centenary of women’s suffrage in Ireland, Mary was one of twenty ‘Bold Girls’ celebrated for having made ‘an exceptional contribution to the canon of Irish children’s literature’.

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