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A Children's Book Review
"I Love You Through and Through"
(Children's book review of Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak's "I Love You Through and Through", by Helena, mother of 5 and grandmother of 2) Now here’s a book with wide-ranging age appeal! I read it to my 11-year-old daughter, who lapped it up. (Anyone with pre-teens girls can relate, I’m sure, to dealing with moodiness and this book was a nice confirmation for her that no matter what, she’s still my daughter and I’ll always be there for her.) On the weekend, my granddaughter, not quite two came for a visit and while we read a lot of stories, "I Love You Through and Through" was clearly her favourite. She brought it to me to have me read it to her over and over again! Everyone enjoys the entire book (which is short, sturdy for little hands, and only takes two minutes to read) but people do have their favourite parts. My moody pre-teen enjoys, “I love your happy side, your sad side, your silly side, your mad side.” The not quite two-year-old delights in “I love your fingers and toes, your ears and nose.”
When I came across “I Love You Through and Through” by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak, illustrated by Caroline Jayne Church, I was going to buy two copies, one for each of my grandchildren, but the store I was in only had one copy left. I still bought it, but instead of anyone being able to claim it as their own, “Nan” keeps it in her own bookcase and brings it out to read to visiting grandchildren, and occasionally to her own 11-year-old “baby” girl when said girl has had a bad day. I think it will become a bedtime tradition book for sleepovers at Nan’s!© Helena Long, May, 2009, Children's Book Review of
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by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak, illustrated by Caroline Jayne Church, © 2005, Scholastic Inc.
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