Customer Reviews

Guess How Much I Love You

5 star:		(135)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(10)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

This is one of the sweetest books out there. My daughter and I love to read it together. My only compliant is that this book didn't interest my daughter until around her second birthday, I assume because of the lack of color. The illustrations from an adult perspective thought are beautiful, as is the message.

That's the most beautiful book for a young child that I know of. It perfectly expresses the mother's love. I enjoy reading it every night before my daughter goes to bed. I started to read it to her over a year ago when she was only two years old, and now she can read it with me. It has created a special bond between us. I highly recommend this book to any loving mother. In addition to that I also recommend a book series titled Why some cats are rascals, containing lovely and inspiring stories for older children.

This is a sweet, loving introduction to a familiar game that many parents have played with their child. I can't see it as being about competition. Perhaps some of the negative reviewers never played the game of "Guess how much I love you". But it was a natural part of childhood for my children. It wasn't about competition, it was about creativiity--thinking of ways of expressing love bigger than ever before. I wouldn't dream of trying to "oneup" my children. I just liked the silly answers we would come up with in playing.

To all the naysayers, the last line of the book is ALL about letting the child "win". The father waits until the child is asleep in the assurance he has come up with the unbeatable answer, "I Love you all the way to the moon!" But as he sleeps and the father looks at this bundle of miracle that has been bestowed upon him he says what he feels, "I love you all the way to the moon, and back". The child doesn't hear this. The father is just expressing a love he can't even define it's so big. That's not competetive or mean spirited, it's a wonderfully realistic portrayal of having a feeling of love so big that you know there is nothing bigger.

The pictures are great. I wouldn't go board book. This book is better for older children.

Buy it and enjoy it.

I love childrens' stories and I love my children but guess how little I love this book. Like cheap chocolate, it is sweet but not good quality and not very satisfying. From a literary point of view, the phrases "big nutbrown hare" and "little nutbrown hare" seem specially chosen to be hard to read outloud and if the book is aimed at children, as opposed to just their parents, the lack of rhyme or rythm is a significant negative. The bigger issue though is the underlying message about the limitted ability of children to love, or perhaps to express their love. There are many beautiful books about loving parent/child relationships out there so why settle for one which models a competitive approach where no matter how creatively the child expresses it's love the adult trumps it, even after the child has fallen asleep and can no longer respond? If I read this book to my sons, I stop before the last page; but a better solution is to leave this book at the back of the shelf and read other books such as Mama Do You Love Me? which communicates the unconditional nature of parental love while letting children know that parents can have other feelings such as anger, sadness, or fear or loneliness at the same time. As a bonus, Mama Do You Love Me? introduces children to Alaskan First Nations images as opposed to some relatively repetitive "nutbrown hares". There are so many other better books I don't even want to start listing them. Sure we want our children to grow up feeling loved and knowing how to love; do you really want them to grow up with this type of competitive feel good mush as their model?

I am a mother of two small children (ages 3 and 1) and I do not like this book. Several people have given it to us as gifts and I have gotten rid of it. It is about a competition between a parent and a child about who loves whom more. Love is not about competition--this book is nothing more than a game of "one-upsmanship" between family members. In our family we love each other without trying to quantify it. This book has been extremely overrated in my opinion and I don't understand why. I don't think its lesson is one parents should be imparting to their children

This book is boring to kids from 2 months to 80 years old. The pictures are dreadful and the story is unexceptional and lacking in interest. My daughter hates this book. The narrative is awkward and repetitious and the pictures are not visually interested. Anyone with average intelligence could make a better story up on the spot.

I bought this book not for a child but for a close friend who is going through a very difficult time in his life. I picked it based on the title alone, because it seemed like it'd have the sort of message I wanted to share with my friend. When I read it, I was delighted by the very simple story of two characters trying to define the size of their love, in a way very much like a game I used to play with my mother. Some people feel that the story is very competitive and I can understand that opinion, but I never felt that way when I played that game with my mother, nor does the book feel competitive to me. To me, the message is simply about love, and the undefinable, unquantifiable nature of it, and the way that no matter what kind of analogy you create for how much you love someone, it's still not big enough.

Besides the message of the story, and soothing illustrations, what really made this book a favorite was the lack of definition for the relationship between the big and little hares. A lot of stories mention in one way or another how the characters are related, and usually they're parent and child. This book makes no mention of how the two characters are related, or even if they are related in any legally-recognized way; you can take it to be whatever you want, whatever fits. Because of that, it's a particularly good fit for our odd mentorship-friendship, or any other nontraditional relationship.

I love that this is the first book I ever read to my son. It is so sweet and perfect to show how love is boundless...

I love reading this story to my children. I bought it when I was pregnant with my first child and I cried when I read it. It is so sweet. I still tell my son (4years old) that I love him to the moon and back. He loves it! And so does my 2 year old daughter. Fabulous, sweet story for your children.

This is my daughters bedtime story. She always wants to read this book before going to sleep. A must have for every parent!