My Love is All Around

by Danielle McLean, Sebastien Braun (Illustrator)

Overview

Mommy Bear shows Baby Bear how love is all around them no matter where they go and what they do!

Join Mommy Bear and Baby Bear as they discover that love is all around them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680101942
Publisher:	Tiger Tales.
Publication date:	01/07/2020
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.56(w) x 10.56(h) x 0.33(d)
Lexile:	AD540L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Danielle McLean is a children's book editor who lives in South London, England. When she's not writing and editing children's books, she can be found in a ballet class pursuing her other childhood dream.

Sebastien Braun was born in Strasbourg, France. As a child he spent countless hours drawing, but at secondary school there were no art classes, so he filled his homework with doodles and portraits of his teachers. Apart from creating pictures, Seb's favorite pastimes are making toys from wood, playing with his children and climbing the Cotswold hills on his vintage road bike.

Editorial Reviews

2019-10-13
As Mommy and Baby Bear roam, Mommy points out all the love around them in the world.

Just as "love is all around," so do McLean's messages multiply: to appreciate the world, to see love being shared, to recognize the many small ways love is shown, or to know that one is always loved. Each is worthy, though mixing them all together may dilute them. Love is in the butterflies, birdsong, and the games played by the pair. The sunshine also contains love and is a reminder of the mother's love. The pair hears a rabbit family laughing and watches a mother fox kissing her kit: These are both love, and Baby Bear makes the connection, noting that Mommy kisses her own cub all the time: "I must be SOOO loved!" Love is also helping others, kindness, cuddling, and the twinkling stars. As they've talked about love the whole day, they end it cuddled together, their hearts full of love under a star-spangled sky and a crescent moon. Braun's animals are adorable, though more simply drawn than many in this canon. Their sometimes-static expressions also keep readers at a bit of a remove.

Too many takeaways muddle the message of love. (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews