I thought emotions had cooled, invectives were no longer flung about, and we were at peace with (or at perhaps had just forgotten about) this little children’s book. I thought that surely by now, moms were no longer arguing over this book. Out popped Love You Forever pretty much the way it is in the book.I thought the controversy was over. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn’t sing.įor a long time it was just a song, but one day, while telling stories at a big theater at the University of Guelph, it occurred to me that I might be able to make a story around the song. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn’t even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. “I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. Munsch explains the story behind his best-selling book. Last night she sent me a text with a link to the author’s web site with the words – “This is so horribly sad” written underneath. Now, several years later she is finally at a point where she can read the book to him without blubbering – well, she was. Once recomposed, she nuzzled in next to the boy and read the last two books of the night. She got out of bed, handed me the book and asked me to please finish reading it for the little dude – and I did. I’ll also admit that I thought it was a little creepy, I mean at one point she’s climbing stairs to get into her adult child’s room to take him out of his marital bed to – rock him to sleep.īut the mom’s self-less devotion clearly resonated with my daughter, half way through the book, as she kept reading and repeating the verse to her son, I realized that she was crying and on the verge of a sob.

The book starts off with a young mom rocking her baby and singing a song to him as he falls asleep.įor the rest of his life, no matter his age, she always manages to find him in bed and well – rock him to sleep. I’ll admit that I was only halfway paying attention when my daughter began reading Robert Munsch’s Love You Forever. It works every time.Ī few years ago he asked me to come sit in the rocking chair in his room as his mom read to him before prayers and sleep and of course I obliged. So much so that if during the course of the day he commits a slight transgression the sure-fire way to get him back on track is to threaten to read him one less story later that night. My six-year-old grandson loves to read almost as much as he loves being read to.

I will love you forever childrens book