I Love You Like Yellow

by Andrea Beaty, Vashti Harrison (Illustrator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

If you had the chance to choose a dream team to create the quintessential “love letter” book for children, I don’t think you could do any better than Andrea Beaty (The Questioneers, One Girl) and Vashti Harrison (Hair Love, Sulwe, Think Big, Little One). I Love You Like Yellow is the delightful and special book about love that's so perfectly relatable you’ll find it’s perfect for Storytime all year round.

From the New York Times bestselling creators, author Andrea Beaty and illustrator Vashti Harrison, a sweet and playful bedtime and read-aloud picture book that reminds young readers just how loved they are.

I love you like yellow.
I love you like green.
Like flowery orchid
and sweet tangerine . . .

Love comes in many forms. It can feel tart as lemonade or sweet as sugar cookies. Slow as a lazy morning or fast as a relay race. Love is there through it all: the large and small moments, the good times and bad. And at the end of the day, love settles us down to bed with a hug and kiss goodnight.

With charming, rhyming text from Andrea Beaty and lush, heartwarming illustrations by Vashti Harrison, I Love You Like Yellow celebrates the unconditional love that pulses through life’s profound and everyday moments—and the people who make them so special.

“This bear-hug of a picture book features . . . a true diversity of characters. Harrison brings a vibrant palette, loving care, and a tight focus to these tableaux; viewers are right there with the families, witnessing their moments together.” —The Horn Book Magazine

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419748073
Publisher:	Abrams Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	03/29/2022
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	174,595
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Andrea Beaty is the New York Times bestselling author of many beloved children’s books, including the bestselling Questioneers series; Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies; Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau; and One Girl. She lives just outside Chicago.

Vashti Harrison is the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends, and the illustrator of Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe and Matthew Cherry’s Hair Love, among others. Vashti lives in Brooklyn.

Editorial Reviews

04/11/2022

Beaty and Harrison pay tribute to unconditional love through seasons, weather, and times of day in this first-person ode. “I love you like yellow./ I love you like green./ Like flowery orchid/ and sweet tangerine,” opens the text alongside companionable colored pencil and digital scenes of a child and adult walking in the rain. Other vignettes showcase loving relationships between peers, intergenerational pairs, and groups depicted with varying abilities, body types, and skin tones. Sometimes abstract, Beaty’s analogies find a gentle partner in Harrison’s narrative illustrations, which offer semi-literal interpretations. Love that’s “like crunchy and crispy” is visualized by a trio eating popcorn, while “like stormy” love attends an image of a card game played during an urban rainstorm. As the examples build, a reassuring portrait of togetherness emerges. Ages 4–8. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"Vignettes showcase loving relationships between peers, intergenerational pairs, and groups depicted with varying abilities, body types, and skin tones. . .a reassuring portrait of togetherness emerges." —Publishers Weekly

"This bear-hug of a picture book features. . .a true diversity of characters.Harrison brings a vibrant palette, loving care, and a tight focus to these tableaux; viewers are right there with the families, witnessing their moments together." —The Horn Book Magazine

"It’s a full circle exploration of the numerous ways adults and children experience and share their unconditional love."—Booklist

From the Publisher

"This bear-hug of a picture book features. . .a true diversity of characters.Harrison brings a vibrant palette, loving care, and a tight focus to these tableaux; viewers are right there with the families, witnessing their moments together."

The Horn Book Magazine

"It’s a full circle exploration of the numerous ways adults and children experience and share their unconditional love."

Booklist