Product Description

A young woman holds her newborn son
And looks at him lovingly.

Softly she sings to him:
"I'll love you forever
I'll like you for always
As long as I'm living
My baby you'll be."

So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold more than 15 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition (as well as hundreds of thousands of copies in Spanish and French).

Firefly Books is proud to offer this sentimental favorite in a variety of editions and sizes:

We offer a trade paper and laminated hardcover edition in a 8" x 8" size.

In gift editions we carry:
a slipcased edition (8 1/2" x 8 1/4"), with a laminated box and a cloth binding on the book
and a 10" x 10" laminated hardcover with jacket.

And a Big Book Edition, 16" x 16" with a trade paper binding.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2679 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Amazon.com
The mother sings to her sleeping baby: "I'll love you forever / I'll love you for always / As long as I'm living / My baby you'll be." She still sings the same song when her baby has turned into a fractious 2-year-old, a slovenly 9-year-old, and then a raucous teen. So far so ordinary--but this is one persistent lady. When her son grows up and leaves home, she takes to driving across town with a ladder on the car roof, climbing through her grown son's window, and rocking the sleeping man in the same way. Then, inevitably, the day comes when she's too old and sick to hold him, and the roles are at last reversed. Each stage is illustrated by one of Sheila McGraw's comic and yet poignant pastels. (Ages 4 to 8) --Richard Farr

David Maloof, Boston Globe 09/15/2002
The one book that has the most meaning to me.

Review
The one book that has the most meaning to me. (David Maloof Boston Globe 20020915)

There is a powerful, age-old resonance to the story, centered on that intangible, steadfast bond between mother and child. (Shelley Fralic National Post 20060515)

No one can read this without the tears falling. (Sharon Owen Madera Tribune 20030925)

The best of Munsch's many storybooks. (Leanne Dohy Calgary Herald 200406)

The starting point for a first-rate library for your grandchildren... a tender ode to the life cycle of a family. (John Lownsbrough Outlook Magazine 20051113)

Sentimental story that has long been a favorite gift at baby showers. (Karen T.Bilton Bridgewater Courier News 20061101)

A humorous, sentimental page-turner that rarely - let's say never -- leaves a reader with a dry eye. (Gayle MacDonald Globe and Mail 200611)

My children and I enjoyed it, night after night, for years... A charmer. The simple story touches the heart. (Jeith L. Runyon Louisville Courier-Journal )

#5 on Instructor's 'Teachers Pick the Top 50 Kids Books Ever', chosen by 200 teachers, authors, and children's literature experts. (Instructor )

Best-selling classic of a parent's enduring love is available in a gift edition. (Bookpage )

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book
I used to read this book to my boys everynite when they were little. Now I have a 6 month old grandson of thought of this wonderful book for his parents to read to him.

Love you Forever Excelent
It's hard to admit but I had to read this book at least a dozen times before I could get to the end without tears. Although the book is written on a preschool level, it has such deep inter meanings that relate to my own personal life experiences from raising 4 children and 10 grandchildren.

bittersweet memories
Years ago, I bought this little book after reading it in a bookstore and crying because it was so bittersweet for me. As the aging mother of an only son, it struck a chord in my heart. I lost the book even before I got home so never got to give it to him. At a funeral recently for their father, 2 teenaged girls read this in recognition as the book their dad had read to them frequently as a bedtime story. Wasn't a dry eye left in the church! Now knowing the title, I ordered 4 copies to give as gifts..the first one going to my son, who will be 51 next week!