First sentence: I love you like yellow.
I love you like green.
Like flowery orchid
and sweet tangerine.
I love you like silly.
I love you like mad.
Like joyous and jolly.
Like silent and sad.

Premise/plot: Picture book poem. This picture book--beautifully illustrated--celebrates families and unconditional love.

My thoughts: I can be a harsh critic when it comes to rhyming picture books. This one was beautiful. It wasn't too 'precious' [aka saccharine]. The narrative was packed with imagery. I liked seeing all the many different scenes from life. I like the vignettes of different families. This isn't the story of one family--one parent, one child. It is broader and more universal than that. ( )

A Hallmark card of a book that mushes on about familial love. Bah, humbug.

I really like the art though.

(Another project! I'm trying to read all the picture books and graphic novels on the kids section of NPR's Books We Love 2022.) ( )

This dreamy, sweet poem is illustrated with different families in everyday scenes, from bathtime and bedtime to walking through fall leaves, stargazing, playing cards on a rainy day, and welcoming a new baby to the family.

Cute endpapers have a white background patterned with items from the story's illustrations (a yellow umbrella, a paper airplane, a playing card, a leaf, a butterfly, etc.).

Soothing and inclusive, this has family favorite bedtime story written all over it.

See also: World So Wide, I Love You As Big As the World, A Family Is A Family ( )