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Ill love you forever childrens book6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Munsch had a master’s degree in Child Studies, had worked with children, and spent his life writing children’s books. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn’t sing.”Īfter their second stillbirth, Munsch and his wife were told they would never be able to have children naturally. “For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn’t even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. Praise for Sweet Child of Mine 'A simple, joyful expression of love at all hours and through all seasons.' -Kirkus Reviews Praise for Ten Tiny Toes' The brief, lyrical text, the opportunities for interactivity and the focus on a subject dear to toddlers' hearts -themselves and all their glorious parts -make this a candidate for repeat readings. The song was my song to my dead babies,” he writes. ![]() “I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. “Love You Forever started as a song,” Munsch writes on his website. ![]() The story ends with the son singing his mother’s lullaby to his baby daughter, implying that the cycle will go on for parents and children for generations to come.īut there’s a sad backstory to Munsch’s story, which surprisingly sold very well in retirement communities. When the mother grows frail and sick, her adult son sings a slightly different lullaby to her, promising to love her unconditionally after her death. ![]() Published in 1986, Robert Munsch writes that every night, even when the boy is badly behaved, his mother comes into his room, holds him in her arms, and sings him a lullaby. As he grows older and leaves home, she still comes into his room sometimes to sing the same words. The children’s book Love You Forever tells the moving story of the relationship between a boy and his mother. ![]()
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