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Guess How Much I Love You (Little Favourites)

Author: Sam Mcbratney
Creator: Anita Jeram
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

10 reviews
Sales Rank: 97975

Media: Hardcover
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5 x 4.3 x 0.3

ISBN: 0744581893
EAN: 9780744581898
ASIN: 0744581893

Publication Date: July 9, 2001
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: UNREAD but may have a crease or mark or minor imperfections. In stock - Sent fast from British booksellers.

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5 out of 5 stars

Great book, but very small for reading with young children February 20, 2008
A great book like everyone says, would just point out that this is a mini sized version and I find it hard to read with my 2 year old son as he can't see the pictures that well. Wish I had bought the full size version.

5 out of 5 stars

wonderful November 10, 2007
this should be in every Small Person's book collection. my son (who is now 7) and I still read it, and I read it to his little sister as well. it never fails to raise a lump in my throat, because i truly do love them to the moon and back! the illustrations are charming, and the language is gentle, easy for little ones to understand, and marvellously descriptive for us adults. Buy it for your kids, or for someone else's kids - you won't be disappointed.

5 out of 5 stars

Eloquent Expressions of Parent-Child Love August 18, 2007
Guess How Much I Love You is a well-earned recipient of the Abby Award.

This book is very uniquely plotted. Unlike most books for bedtime, the two protagonists are male (apparently father and son, although that is left unstated). And they spend the whole book describing and showing their love for one another. I know of no other book that provides this sort of man-boy modeling about expressing love and appreciation for one another.

Yet at the same time, the "maleness" of the two characters is subdued so that the pair could be very easy to see them as female characters (a mother-daughter pair). Obviously, mixed pairs (mother-son and father-daughter) are even easier to imagine. So everyone can relate to expressing love and receiving expressions of love in return when reading this delightful story.

The other attraction of this story is that the youngster, Little Nutbrown Hare, takes the lead. He wants to describe his love first. Children can start to be reticent about their feelings beginning around age 4, and this book should help overcome that shyness. Fathers of my generation and older have been reticent since that age with everyone, so this book will help a few parents as well to show their feelings.

As for age level, this book should start to appeal at about age 2 1/2 to 3. You will be reading the story to your youngster at that age. In time, with memorization, you will be listening to the story. Later, you child will actually learn to read it to you.

The illustrations are gently subdued, to help create a mood of drowsiness. Nicely done, Ms. Anita Jeram!

The story opens with Little Nutbrown Hare on his way to sleep. He is riding on top of Big Nutbrown Hare, holding onto the larger hare's very long ears. The plot development begins when Little Nutbrown Hare raises the title challenge: Guess how much I love you.

Little Nutbrown Hare uses his body to show how much. Big Nutbrown Hare, being larger, outdoes him when he repeats what Little Nutbrown Hare has said in terms of his own adult body. Little Nutbrown Hare then goes on to use his eyes to create even larger distances to express the greatness of his love. Big Nutbrown Hare comes up with even larger distances, based on his longer experience.

As Little Nutbrown Hare goes to sleep after making his greatest expression of love, Big Nutbrown Hare says nothing until after Little Nutbrown Hare is in the land of nod. Then Big Nutbrown Hare makes his final expression of love . . . a very beautiful one (involving about 500,000 miles).

After you have finished enjoying this heartfelt story, I suggest that you think about more ways that you can express your love more often to those you care about. Use the concepts in this book to come up with ways to flesh out the simple, "I love you" to make the expression more tangible to the hearer. I suspect you will receive many bouquets of expressed love as a result.

May love be with and come from you . . . always!

5 out of 5 stars

Beautiful book for children February 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

"Guess How Much I Love You" is a beautifully told and illustrated story suitable for children, parents and adults of all ages. It's a must have book on the universal theme of love, which can be read and enjoyed many many times. I love it and have given it as a present to lots of people.

5 out of 5 stars

Beautiful October 21, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

My daughter and I love reading this together. I won't spoil it by telling you the last line... but it makes my eyes moisten everytime. Beatifully illustrated, it's a gorgeous book about, well, how much you can love someone.

Buy it, and enjoy reading it to your kids.