Mommy, Do You Love Me?

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No amount of mischief can shake a mommy's assurance of affection, in this humorous, heartening story sure to soften even the most trying of days. Full color.

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Publisher’s Weekly (02/25/2008)
Through a series of tests-deliberate and not-a chick becomes almost totally convinced that his mother's affections are unshakable. Then, provoked by her son's almost manic cheeping, his mother momentarily loses it, and Little Chick is himself shaken. The mother hen repairs the breach with some unconditional reassurance ("Sometimes you make me mad, and sometimes you make me sad, but no matter what you say or do, I will always love you") and with that surefire parenting trick, the funny face. Working in warm, translucent watercolors and velvety black outlines, Fearnley (previously paired with Willis for Never Too Little to Love) gives her characters an endearing depth of expression and personality. The hen's beady eyes beam with pride and bemusement at her spunky, downy offspring, and when the chick loses a race, his mother comforts him with a pat of her wing and a look that is fully empathetic even as it conveys "this too shall pass." These highly individuated scenes of barnyard domesticity considerably buoy an otherwise predictable tribute to the constancy of mother love, while the large-scale watercolors on outsize pages let readers appreciate every nuance. Ages 3-up. (Mar.)

School Library Journal (04/01/2008)
PreS-In this picture book with a tried-and-true theme, a chick repeatedly asks his mother whether she loves him. Her answer is reassuring even when he makes a funny face, jumps in a mud puddle, or loses a race. Then, when his happy chirping gets louder and louder and her pleas for quiet go ignored, she shouts at him, and Chick runs away. When she finds him, she tells him that although he sometimes makes her mad, and sometimes sad, her love remains steadfast. And when she makes a funny face, Chick returns the sentiments. Luminous watercolor-and-ink illustrations capture the tender, sometimes taut, interplay between mother and child. Their expressions are priceless, particularly Little Chick's exuberance when he knows he is loved and his sadness when his mother yells at him. Children will respond to this read-aloud.-Anne Parker, Milton Public Library, MA

ISBN: 9780763634704 | EAN: 9780763634704
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)  | Publication Date: March, 2008

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