A World of Love

by Aimee Elizabeth Reid, Christopher Lyles (Illustrator)

Overview

There are a world of ways to show love for our young!

Animal parents shower their little ones with love in so many unique ways. Doves coo and dolphins whistle, while penguins huddle with their chicks for warmth and mountain goats shield their kids’ falls. Eye-catching collage illustrations and a lyrical text invite readers to explore animal behavior around the globe and celebrate the universal nature of a caregiver’s love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524739812
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	01/02/2024
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	534,320
Product dimensions:	9.88(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.35(d)
Lexile:	AD620L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Aimee Reid (aimeereid.com) also wrote the picture books First Morning Sun, Welcome Home, You Are My Friend: The Story of Mister Rogers and His Neighborhood, and Mama’s Day with Little Gray. It brings her great joy to think of children nestled on a lap or cuddled on a couch reading good books to share. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

Christopher Lyles (chrislylesdesigns.com) is an illustrator, designer, and art educator whose artwork has appeared in numerous children’s books, greeting cards, magazines, and products. Christopher lives with his wife, two sons, and a dog in a quiet New England town surrounded by wildlife. If he’s not hiking, working out, or rummaging through antique shops, he’s likely doodling on napkins in restaurants.

Editorial Reviews

Reid and Lyles create a colorful world of parent-child love. Each page turn reveals a different animal and environment, each done in a striking palette. . . . Stunning collages made with hand-painted paper, pencil, and crayon. . . . Easy-to-read rhyming verse. . . . Richly colored, detailed illustrations and short verses brimming with love make this book a good candidate for one-on-one reading (and snuggling). Backmatter offers additional information about each animal’s devoted parenting behavior. . . . Tailor-made for a naptime cuddle.” —Kirkus Reviews

“In an ode to the universal love of parent and child, this book invites readers to explore how members of the animal realm show their love to their young. Richly colored cut-paper collages adorn spreads of various animals in their habitats. . . . Back matter includes more information about how animals care for their young. . . . Detailed illustrations along with the beautiful descriptors make this book a great option to read one-on-one with a child tucked in close. With its rhythmic lines and colorful illustrations, A World of Love is sure to be a bedtime favorite.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

01/19/2024

PreS-Gr 1—In an ode to the universal love of parent and child, this book invites readers to explore how members of the animal realm show their love to their young. Richly colored cut-paper collages adorn spreads of various animals in their habitats, e.g., a dolphin and calf surrounded by sea creatures, and a sheep and lamb surrounded by rolling hills of grass. Each pair is accompanied by two stanzas beginning with the same phrase, "if all the earth," followed by the habitat and a hypothetical situation of how a the parent would care for and love the child: "If all the earth/ were oceans deep—/ great seas that you explore—/ I'd call to you,/ my calf, my calf,/ the one that I adore." The book concludes with a light-skinned parent and child at a beach at sunset with four stanzas describing their love for the child. Back matter includes more information about how animals care for their young, with two of the eight shown—a silverback gorilla and emperor penguin—being male. Detailed illustrations along with the beautiful descriptors make this book a great option to read one-on-one with a child tucked in close. VERDICT With its rhythmic lines and colorful illustrations, A World of Love is sure to be a bedtime favorite.—Katherine Kefi

School Library Journal

2023-10-21
Reid and Lyles create a colorful world of parent-child love.

Each page turn reveals a different animal and environment, each done in a striking palette, including spring green, ocean blue, and desert brown. Stunning collages made with hand-painted paper, pencil, and crayon range from simpler cutouts of sheep grazing on a hilly pasture and a light-skinned human parent at the beach as the sun sets, to a mourning dove and her baby in an intricately constructed nest. Two stanzas of easy-to-read rhyming verse accompany each family scene. Each spread starts with the refrain “If all the earth.” Reid then mentions a hypothetical situation and concludes with a specific way the parent would care for and protect the child (“If all the earth / were ice and snow / and you were small and new, / I’d shelter you, my chick, my chick— / secure until you grew”). Many verses also include the specific term for the baby animal, such as a sheep’s lamb, a dolphin’s calf, a goat’s kid, and a penguin’s chick. Though Reid includes two stanzas of verse for each animal, at the end, she uses four stanzas for the human parent and child. Richly colored, detailed illustrations and short verses brimming with love make this book a good candidate for one-on-one reading (and snuggling). Backmatter offers additional information about each animal’s devoted parenting behavior and in two cases (emperor penguins and gorillas) describes the role of fathers.

Tailor-made for a naptime cuddle. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews