Love You Forever written by Robert Munsch illustrated by Shelia McGraw This book will make you cry in fourteen pages. Before writing this post, not five minutes ago, I read the book again. I still have tears in my eyes. Fourteen pages. Even flipping through the pages counting them brought fresh tears to my eyes. I'm seventeen, and I still remain under the mercy of these fourteen pages. This book is like an onion. I even read it believing that I had enough power to not cry. Why this book will make any person on this planet cry is because it is about something we all share. We all have a mother, and some day we will have children of our own. In case you haven't read it(which you should) this book is simply about a mother who rocks her baby boy while he is sleeping. As her son grows older into a child, a teen, and finally an adult she continues to sing to him;
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living my baby you'll be.
When the mother is fragile with age she can no longer rock her baby boy. The boy, now an adult, comes to her room while she's sleeping, and rocks his mother singing;
I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living my baby you'll be.
Then he goes back to his home, climbs up the stairs into his baby's room and sings the same song.
It is something we all relate to, no matter how old we get. No matter how messy we are as children. No matter how alien we are as teenagers. We will still be our mothers baby boy or baby girl. Tears both happy and sad will come no matter who you are just as the sun will rise tomorrow. Don't try to stop it. Surrender. Now think about this story next time you hug your mom.
