Posted by Ryan Woods
People already cry when they read this book. A mother holds her little baby boy and sings to him "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always. As long as you're living my baby you'll be." The pages go on as the boy grows older and older and becomes a man. Eventually one day the mother grows old and can no longer sing the sing. And so her son, the grown man, sings to his mother "I'll love you forever. I'll like you for always. As long as I'm living my mother you'll be." The story ends with the son singing this same song to his infant daughter. Heart wrenching right? Touching right?
Well you don't know the half of it!
Robert Munsch, the author, wrote the little song long before he ever made the book. He sang that song in his head for years because he wrote it for his two children that were still born. That song was his special song for them and it was years before he was able and willing to share his song with the world. If that doesn't make you tear up I don't know what will.
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