In a first children's book by a best-selling author and radio personality, Sammy, a young boy, asks his mother why she loves him and learns that her love is unconditional.
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The first in a series of children's titles by radio talk show host Dr Laura Schlessinger, Why Do You Love Me? is a warm and fuzzy 32-page picture book about unconditional love. Unlike the treasured, bunny-centred Guess How Much I Love You, Schlessinger's text--aimed for a similar, if slightly older, age group--is intended to be based in reality. You won't find any fantastical elements here, just a straight conversation between mother and son about the enduring love the mother feels for her child. Unfortunately, the story's low-key, "slice of life" approach isn't reflected in Daniel McFeeley's exaggerated, cartoon-like line drawings--a stylistic merging of R. Crumb and Jim Davis's Garfield.
Schlessinger delivers an important message beneath the Sunday comics-style presentation: a mother's love is forever and always, no matter how her child behaves. Sammy thinks he might be loved because he's good at sports or acts helpfully around the house. No, Mother explains, it's because "he's the one and only Sammy there will ever be in the whole world-- and you're mine. And that's enough for me to love you all the time". Then Sammy asks if there is ever a time when she doesn't love him, and he offers suggestions of recent bad behaviour. "I did not love the yelling, or the hitting, or cleaning off the crayon marks," says Mother. "But I still loved you". Further she says that "...the love in my heart is like the sun in the sky. It is always there, even when you can't see it". The mother here is never shown to be distracted, overwhelmed, snappy or sad--and parents may bristle that there's no real discussion of the existence or whereabouts of a parent's love when working, absent, sick or tired. (Dr Laura would ask now, "Who cares? It's your kids we're thinking about here".) This story is meant purely to comfort the young child who fears that parental love comes and goes at whim. At that, it fully succeeds. (Ages 3 and older) --Jean Lenihan, Amazon.com END
In this tale, Mother explains to Sammy that it's not what he does that makes her love him - while she appreciates all the wonderful things he does, she loves him because he's the one and only Sammy in the world, and because he's her son.
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