Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Children’s picture books

LOVE

Matt de la Peña Loren Long

In this heartfelt celebration of love, Newbery Medal-winning author Matt de la Peña and bestselling illustrator Loren Long depict the many ways we experience this universal bond, which carries us from the day we are born throughout the years of our childhood and beyond.

With a lyrical text that's soothing and inspiring, this tender tale is a needed comfort and a new classic that will resonate with readers of every age.

Matt de la Peña's follow-up to Newbery Medal-winning Last Stop on Market Street is brought to life by Loren Long, #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of the Otis books and President Barack Obama's picture book Of Thee I Sing.

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Book Published 2018-01-09 by Putnam's Sons
Book Published 2018-01-09 by Putnam's Sons

Comments

Long and Matt de la Peña . . . hit the mark with Love . . . a gentle, poetic picture book about love in all circumstances, even the tough ones.

Accompanied by Loren Long's charming illustrations, this book celebrates how love exists in the ordinary and why we should treasure moments, big and small, with the people in our lives.

Timely, timeless, and utterly necessary.

In this stirring picture book . . .love becomes not just an emotion between people but a feeling suffusing the world. . . .DEEPLY FELT AND GENUINELY UPLIFTING.

An exquisitely written and illustrated picture book that speaks of how love, even when it's difficult to recognize, can percolate up through the most common of daily circumstances.

Chinese: Guangxi Normal University ; Japanese: Hyoronsha Publishing ; French: Editions d'Eux ; Korean: Dasan ; Portuguese (Brasil): Pallas ; Slovenian: Ocean

Lyrical and sensitive, 'Love' is the sort of book likely to leave readers of all ages a little tremulous, and brimming with feeling.

This heartfelt and sensitively rendered picture book meditation begs to be shared and discussed with children . . . Spread the love.

Everything that can be called love from shared joy to comfort in the darkness is gathered in the pages of this reassuring, refreshingly honest picture book.

[A] poetic reckoning of the importance of love in a child's life . . . eloquent and moving.

...People often talk to children about love; in these pages, they can see and feel what it's like. And there's plenty for everybody.

LOVE is a Winter 2017-2018 Kids' Indie Next List Top Pick !

Powerful video in which Matt de la Peña and Loren Long introduce their upcoming picture book, LOVE! Read more...