Seeking God Knows What

A couple weeks ago, I received an e-mail from a gentleman asking me if I would be interested in reviewing a children’s book. Being that I have an almost 3-year-old who loves books, I said sure. I received the book shortly thereafter in the mail and sat down to read it with Widget.

First, basic information about the author and the illustrator. I Love You More was written by Laura Duksta. Duksta lost all her hair due to alopecia areata at the age of 11. Upon dealing with this and learning to love herself without hair, she realized that anything is possible when you are loved. Illustrator Karen Kessler apparently earned the nickname hippie because of her intense love for people and the planet. Teamed together, the two call themselves “The Hippie and the Bald Chick” and have their own website at www.hippieandthebaldchick.com.

Now for the book itself.

Widget and I really enjoyed that the book was a flip book.  One half the story is about love from a parent’s perspective.  Flip the book over to read about love from a child’s view.   The story is easy to read with simple rhymes describe how much greater, deeper, higher, faster, and so on each’s love is for the other.  Each half ends with them giving each other a hug and the other saying I love you more.  Each page had a bright and colorful picture that showed the different things love was being compared to.  Widget liked to point to each picture and talk about what was there.

This is a very cute book about love, with the flip book showing how the love between a parent and child is endless.  Widget and I enjoyed reading it and I suspect it will be one we read rather often.