Love You When...

by Linda Kranz

Overview

Popular “rock artist” Linda Kranz returns to remind us that those we love are always with us. During the course of each day, something sparks a thought or memory, and a loved one comes to mind. Perhaps it’s a sound, a fragrance, or something that catches our eye; when this happens we can’t help but pause for a moment and smile. So give this book to the special loved ones in your life, and they will share with you all the times they think to themselves how much they love you, when. . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589797031
Publisher:	Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date:	11/16/2012
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	783,578
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Linda Kranz, winner of the IRA Children’s Choices Award, is the author of eight journals and a craft book, as well as the best-selling Only One You and You Be You. Linda lives with her husband in Flagstaff, Arizona. Together they enjoy discovering new landscapes in and around the Southwest and returning to their longtime favorite places, again and again.

Editorial Reviews

My favorite rocks are back, this time providing colorful and evocative assurances that each of us is loved—always. With Love You When. .. , Linda Kranz creates an engaging testament to the timelessness of love, once again aided by her frisky and ingenious buddies, the boldly painted rocks who so artfully share her stories. Kranz’s gentle touch with word and brush belies the exquisite power of her message: I love you always. This may be a children’s book, but children should make sure their adults have one, too!

Jean-Ellen Kegler

This sweet book is the perfect bedtime or anytime story to share with your little ones.

Beth Fish Reads Blog

I was thrilled to read [the] beautiful book Love You When.. .. The images, the message, the rocks! What an amazing book!. .. Once again you have inspired me and made my world a better place. Thanks for being you!

Shari Attebery

This love letter of a book from parent to child includes lovely photographs of carefully arranged and painted rocks, but an uninspired text falls short of its original artistic conceit. An absence of story hinders the book, which excludes character depictions, though an opening shot of a big, red, heart-shaped rock beside a smaller one suggests a parent and child. This picture is followed by a parental voice describing the everyday moments that inspire love, juxtaposed with painted and arranged rock tableaux. For example, a stone painted like the sun precedes text on the next page that says that the parent loves the child when "the first rays of sun light up the early morning sky." Although the child's voice had previously asked, "Do you think of me during the day?" it's unclear whether the child and parent are together or separate at this point, and at many others, throughout the book. The message of parental love is sweet and heartfelt, and the pictures are quite pretty. The sum of the parts, though, ultimately seems less like a picture book to be shared by the sort of parent and child whose voices emerge in the text and more like a gift book or a catalog of photographs to inspire readers to paint and arrange their own rocks. Artistically inspirational, if not inspired itself. (Picture book. 3-8)

Kirkus Reviews

.. . Beautifully illustrated with a motif of rocks and stones, this might be a more personal book as a gift. Teachers will enjoy the writing pattern templates on the author’s website.

Reading Online Today (International Reading Association)