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FOR VALENTINE’S DAY…FOR EVERY DAY

The most complex of emotions is explored in stunning photographs that will melt hearts. The many sides of love are shown through captured moments—pets and pals and parents; giggles, tears, and surprise; a leap across a field; a hug when one needs it. Simple poetic captions give readers starting places to think and talk about the people and the things they love—and examine its many meanings. Poignant and joyful, tender and true, Shelley Rotner ...

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FOR VALENTINE’S DAY…FOR EVERY DAY

The most complex of emotions is explored in stunning photographs that will melt hearts. The many sides of love are shown through captured moments—pets and pals and parents; giggles, tears, and surprise; a leap across a field; a hug when one needs it. Simple poetic captions give readers starting places to think and talk about the people and the things they love—and examine its many meanings. Poignant and joyful, tender and true, Shelley Rotner and Deborah Carlin present this most intimate of emotions in all its wondrous ways.

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Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Rotner (Every Season) and newcomer Carlin's affirmations, paired with Rotner's b&w photographs and stylishly printed in red font, explore how love sustains children. "Love opens our heart. It makes us giggle and sometimes cry," reads the text, while two photographs show, respectively, two cherubic boys smiling and hugging, and a girl with a furrowed brow and a tear on her cheek. Many shots have a static quality, and statements like "Love lets us share. Love helps us trust," defining one abstract concept with another, may puzzle the target audience. Sometimes spontaneity and concrete images burst through: "We love the buzz of ideas and stories in our heads," reads one page, as a dark-haired boy in glasses regards the photographer with a wonderful mixture of apprehension and irritation. His expression doesn't correspond so neatly to the text; nevertheless, it seems more truthful. Ages 2-6. (Jan.)

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School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 3

An emotion that means different things to different people is displayed through lovely black-and-white photographs of families, children, animals, and nature. The authors have taken care to show children and adults of different races in a variety of settings. Red type on the cover is repeated along with spare text that accompanies each illustration. This book will generate much discussion when shared as a read-aloud; it will also serve as a springboard for creative writing. While many titles on this topic are silly or overly sweet, this one is respectful and thought-provoking.-Nancy Baumann, Indian Paintbrush Elementary, Laramie, WY

Kirkus Reviews
Gorgeous black-and-white photographs accompany a series of statements that attempt to define-or at least encompass-"love." "Love is as big as a harvest moon, / as wide as a summer sky." As with any enterprise that goes this route-just how big is a harvest moon?-the success lies with the juxtaposition of image to text. A toddler giggles as a pigeon alights on his shoulder ("We love the animals...that are wild and free"); a little girl rests, dwarfed, against a huge tree trunk ("Love comforts us like a strong, old tree"). Beautiful yet, unlike the emotion it celebrates, somehow ephemeral. (Picture book. 3 & up)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781620657560
  • Publisher: Capstone Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/2013
  • Pages: 32
  • Age range: 4 - 8 Years
  • Product dimensions: 8.70 (w) x 8.80 (h) x 0.30 (d)

Meet the Author

DEBORAH CARLIN is a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. This is her first book for children.

SHELLEY ROTNER is the co-author and photographer of more than 30 books for children on topics ranging from twins to grandparents to food to A.D.D. Her books include EVERY SEASON (Roaring Brook, Spring 2007). She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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