Like So
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From bestselling author Ruth Forman and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Honoree Raissa Figueroa comes a lyrical and vibrant picture book honoring the love and bond that exists between family and child even in complicated times.
Told from Nana’s point of view, this simple, affirming, and comforting read-aloud shows how every family’s love is natural and connected to the world around us. Just as the sun loves the day, the moon loves the waves, and the night sky loves the star glow…so is our love for each other: innate, wondrous, and infinite.
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"We got love," rejoice the child and caregiver at the center of this rhapsodic work, which takes on a sweeping dimension through Forman's poetic descriptions of a natural world that's built on affection. Just as the Black-presenting duo exult in their devotion to each other ("I hug you like so// You hug me like so"), they find the moon, the sun, the days, the trees, and so on also "got love like so," per a rhythmic refrain. Light infuses Figueroa's smudgy landscapes, which abound with botanicals and butterflies, and this luminosity extends into concluding nighttime winter scenes of the figures building a snowman beneath a velvety sky dotted with pricks of snow and stars ("night sky got love like so/ star glow got love like so"). Just like the protagonists' gentle opening embrace, text and art communicate a tender and expansive loving-kindness. Ages 1–4.
