On his website, Munsch explains Love You Forever started out as a song in memory of their two stillborn babies.

This makes a wonderful extra feature for young readers, the grandchildren of people who raised their own children with this story and who want to pass it to a new generation. You may be surprised to discover the genesis behind the book has nothing to do with either of these rather, the story originated after two sad episodes in the lives of the author and his wife. But even better is the feature that moves - as the chorus is sung, you can move the characters back and forth. Is in this book, and enhanced with three-dimensional elements. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold more than 15 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition. In double-page spreads and gatefolds, the whole text of Now there is a gift edition whose characters moveĪ young mother holds her baby, and while she sings to it she rocks it back and forth.Īnd through her life, and the stages of his life, she holds her son and rocks him back and forth as she tells him that she will love him forever. Munsch, a children’s book author, came up with the book’s most famous lines (I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be) as a way. Robert Munsch is the bestselling, widely celebrated author of more than 50. The much-loved bestseller, now in a pop-up edition.īut we had no idea that booksellers would love it and sell 30 million copies. Softly she sings to him: Ill love you forever Ill like you for always As. Love you forever Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

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