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Submitted by Kayla R
Robert Munsch’s Love You Forever is one of the best selling children’s books of all time AND one of the most adorable. It’s extraordinarily heartfelt. Maria Shriver says she has never read the book without crying. I wonder if she reads it to Arnold before bedtime.
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I LOVe THIS BOOK!!!
I read it to my son many, many times. I’m sure he hates me for it now.
On the other side of the coin, I thought this was one of the creepiest books I have ever seen for kids.
Like, oh, great, my mother-in-law can sneak into my house and crawl around in the middle of the night.
Yes, I do get it. I just didn’t like it.
The bit about the mom sneaking in to the house after the boy is grown up is of course just a silly part of the story to show the reader how much the mother loves her child. But when my brother was dying of cancer and couldn’t see and could barely hear, the most appropriate thing I could think of to tell him was I’ll love you forever.
It’s so great to know I’m not alone in this. Stalker Mom = True Love! It’s just so Psycho.
I agree. I HATE this book. Always have.
Not just ’cause of stalker Mom, but the whole idea of it was creepy with the ‘as long as your living’ bit. I don’t know about everyone else, but when my mom passes away in hopefully very distant future, she still going to be my Mommy.
My mom hated it too and refused to read it to me. Along with goodnight moon.
For sad as all get out stories, I’ll stick to the giving tree.
Yes, this is a creepy, creepy book. The sentiment is adorable and makes you want to cry, but the idea of mom breaking and entering? Ew. Have trouble letting go much?!
It’s even sadder when you hear the story behind it.
http://www.robertmunsch.com/books.cfm?bookid=40
…Actually that kind of explains a lot. I think if it was just written by someone about a literal kid, the creepy factor stands out a lot more, but the idea that it has all this extreme emotion behind it not relating to someone’s say, perfectly normal and happy firstborn kind of excuses what I saw as stalkery elements. D:
I remember joey from friends reading this on the episode with emma’s birthday!!!
Rofl that was like the only time I liked that book XD
Ahhhh….MUSH!!!
Well, who am I kidding? I can’t read this without thinking of my mom! Even when she was going through chemo with her cancer off and on for 18 years she STILL wanted me to sit my grown 5′8″ and then 180 lb butt on her 5′2″ 130 lb lap! Can you imagine how awkward it is to try and do that? And she always feigned regret when I acted like I plopped right down on her! “What did I give BIRTH to? A water buffalo???” She would always say!
Aw, crap…now I got something in my eye…I miss her.
*HUGS* Yeah.. there must be a lot of dust in the air.. damnit..
Robert Munsch made up stories for kids, about kids. This isn’t supposed to be analysed–because yes, if it were to happen in real life, it would be creepy. But so would talking animals be. The story illustrates that the mom loves the little boy and when he has a little daughter of his own he feels exactly what she felt for him all his life.
My mom signs all her emails to me, “Love you forever!”
My best friend (and soul mate) had an almost identical experience with her mother. Even though I never met her mother from helping my friend deal with life I feel like I’ve experienced a taste of your pain, but I could not ever be able to imagine it in it’s entirety… I really do honestly hope that you’re doing ok…
OMG. I had this book when I was little and I LOVED it.
This book made my Cold-War-vet dad cry every time he read it. A great way to teach children about “when people go to heaven.”
This was the first book I went out and bought when I made it past the dreaded three month mark and felt this time I was actually going to make it through a whole pregnancy. He’s 16, 5′9″ and still has the book in his collection. It still makes me cry.
Oh my gosh. Why did no one put this up sooner?! My mom read this book to me every day when I was little and it always made me want to cry. In fact, it still does. That’s right, I’m 15 and I still have this book with me to this very day and I’ll never leave it, because when she’s gone that’ll be our special memory.
my favorite book of all time. i buy it for all of my friends/family’s kids, because i think every kid should have it. my kids will be reading my copy, which i still have at 20 years old
My copy of this book is signed.
Thought this was the creepiest book I’d ever read…
I never owned a copy of this book, I first heard of it in 1st grade. I love it.
I’ll have to get a copy of this when I have children (if possible) and read it to them.
That book always freaked me out, even as a little kid. I never understood why people liked it so much… Each to their own, I suppose.
This book makes my mom cry. And that makes me cry. *feels warm and squishy*
D’awwwww, I loved this book!
I do get why people find this creepy and to someone who has experienced boundary issues with relatives it would just make them feel icky, but the first time I read this I choked up so bad at the end. That was even before I became a mommy. Now that I am a mom, just thinking about it has me all misty-eyed.
OK I just read the story behind it and now I am totally losing it. I lost a baby myself, and… well no parent should EVER have to go through that. That this book has touched so many people is a beautiful thing. Those two precious babies, even though their lives ended before they were born, they still touched people’s hearts. That’s incredibly, painfully beautiful.
My goth daughter loved this book when she was little. I thought it was the forever message, but now I think it was because it was about death.
Now she’s 22 and doesn’t love me forever, maybe she will later – when she grows up a bit.
Dont worry k…. even if she doesn’t love you, she loves you, i promise
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She may not like you right now, but she still loves you.
My mom and I still have ‘I love you but I sure as hell don’t like you’ days all the time.
To all those of you who feel the book is creepy…
I feel sorry for you that such a simple and powerful expression of love makes you so uncomfortable. It’s a shame your parents (if you had any in your life) didn’t love you enough for you to understand what it means.
Judgemental much?
You are creepy…
Do you want people making assumptions about your upbringing or your parents based on your opinion of this book? No? Then stop doing it to other people. My parents loved me very much. My mother never read me this book partly because she found the story of a mom who can only tell her son how much she loves him when he’s asleep and keeps on treating him like a baby even when he’s a grown man to be creepy. If you and your parents didn’t see it that way fine. But don’t assume my parents didn’t love me just because they weren’t exactly like yours.
You wanna know what else is creepy about this book? Mommy telling her son that no matter what she’ll always think of him as a baby. There’s no room for him to be an older kid, an adolescent, or a grown man in her mind. He’s always a baby, so she’s perfectly justified in breaking into his house.
patronizing much?
oh, and seconding Cessan’s thought as well.
PS: The book expresses a beautiful sentiment.
Such a good book. I cry every time I read it to my boys.
It isn’t often one finds sappy and creepy in the same story. I and my DIL find it inappropriate.
I LOVE THIS BOOK.
My mom read this book (the very same copy, no less) to my brother, me and our little sister throughout our young lives. The copy we have is 26 years old and it still sits on my 17 year old sister’s bookshelf to this day.
I don’t think it’s creepy at all. Then again, I understand the sentiment behind it, that a mother’s love goes far beyond the home you grow up in. My mother has proven that so very many times since my brother and I have left home, paying a bill here or there when we’ve been strapped for cash, or buying us soup and medicine when we were too sick to get out of bed and bringing to our homes.
She has also given copies of this book to every friend of hers who has had a baby, boy or girl, and this is a tradition that I have carried on with my own friends.
EPIC WIN tor whoever posted this. =)
*sigh* I remember when my Mom bought me this book. I was a “tween” and we had a HUGE fight that afternoon that ended in “I hate you!” “I hate you too”. She came into my room when I was sulking and handed it to me and walked back out. Never said a word.
Now she’s gone, and I still have that damn book. It’s buried in the bottom of my picture box with the last picture she & I had taken together, and the last letter she wrote me… which she ended with “I love you for ever, I like you for always, even when I’m not living, my Baby you’ll be”.
Aww, you just made me cry…
I was o.k. until this, dammit!
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Ditto.
Some adults may think it is creepy, but a classroom full of first graders thinks is it HILARIOUS when the mom goes into the man’s house to rock him. It’s a book for kids, folks.
Of course, I can not read the book to my classes anymore, because I start sobbing about three pages in. LOL!
I HATED this book. That mom was crazy.
I cannot stand this damn book.
Funnily enough, though, Munsch wrote The Paper Bag Princess, which is one of my favorites.
My wife and I are sobbing and laughing at the same time. We are actually going over to my wife’s elderly mom’s house to take care of her right now.
This book is almost unreadible outloud…you bastards…what are these watery things coming from my eyes…*sob*…I feeeeeeeel again…ah, the sunshine! Ahhhhhhh!
This is a great gift that I have given to all friends who have children. The first time I read it was on a plane, over the shoulder of the person in front of me…I cried! I still cry each time I read it, especially since my own mom passed away.
never hear of it.
heard that is
memorized it as a kid
I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be. C:
I just pulled that out of my memory from being like seven years old. : O
I think this is the most nostalgic thing I’ve seen on here for me.
One of the best “robot tests” ever created…
LOLZ!!!!
Ohh… Mom read it to me and I read it to my little one now.
The part I always loved the most is when the mom was old and sick and her son holds her and tells her how much he ‘ll always love her. Make all the ‘Mother Bates’ jokes you like, but god… it really just gets me right in the cockles.
I read this to my daughter almost every night for years. She made me make up a tune to go with the song and sing it to her before she went to sleep. I agree with the person that said it is not supposed to be picked apart. It’s a book about a Mother’s love for her child.
My mom read this to me when I was a kid. She would always sing me the song. I love this book.
Holy crap. THANK YOU THANK YOU for putting this up. Every child should be read this book over and over.
Still my favorite book from my childhood!
i love you forever i love you for always.
this book makes manly men cry
my mom would threaten me with this book because it always made me cry. she would say to me in the store “if you dont behave your self right now, im not going to spank you but I will read the book”
we was given a copy of this book to commemorate the impending birth of our first child. we read this and cried. then mattie was stillborn. we put the copy in her casket. it hurts so bad. that was 2 years ago and still a fresh wound.
So sad. I’m sorry to hear about that.
never heard of it but picture makes it look epic fail
My mother read this to me every night!
I never read this as a kid. The first time I saw it, my son brought it home from 2nd grade as reading homework. I read it with him and cried, cried, cried!!!
My brother brought this home from school to read to my mom the other day and I over heard her tell her friend how it made her cry. Now I’m not really an emotional person, but when I heard her say the summary of the book I started to get choked up. The only thing I could think of was her telling me she loves me every time I leave to go somewhere.
Aww hell the tears are starting again D;
I love you forever mom <3