Wherever You Are
My Love Will Find You
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4.3 • 105 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Bestselling author/artist Nancy Tillman celebrates the ways in which the love between parents and children is forever.
. . . I wanted you more than you'll ever know,
so I sent love to follow wherever you go. . . .
Love is the greatest gift we have to give our children. It's the one thing they can carry with them each and every day.
If love could take shape it might look something like these heartfelt words and images from the inimitable Nancy Tillman. Wherever You Are is a book to share with your loved ones, no matter how near or far, young or old, they are.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As a child frolics in a magical version of the natural world, the narrator coos her enduring parental love: "I wanted you more/ than you ever will know,/so I sent love to follow/ wherever I go." The child, of neutral ethnicity and indeterminate gender (thanks to an orange bucket hat and compositions that always show him or her in profile or from behind) is one lucky kid: there's a piggyback ride on a hippo, apple-picking with the help of an albino giraffe, a park bench chat with pandas, and a snooze that literally entails lying down with the lambs. Tillman's (On the Night You Were Born) digital artwork teeters of the edge of saccharine, and she's too fond of dancing blobs of lights. But she has an unerring instinct for dramatic composition in these pages, readers get the sense of spying on a secret world and her potent combination of unapologetic sentiment, fantasy, photorealism, and painterliness has an undeniable allure. As with her other books, the real audience is probably grownups looking for a misty-eyed interlude. Ages 4 8.
Customer Reviews
So great
Completely beautiful.
Wonderful book!
When my Aunt was in a coma we would read this to her before she passed away. This book helped my little nieces about death and it helped me understand even though I was 22 at the time. It’s never easy to grasp but knowing her love is still with my family and I gives us comfort.