love you forever by robert munsch summary

I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. Today I read an article that linked to this description of the book written by Mr.

Munsch had himself experienced loss as a father. Many years ago Robert Munsch came to Holland Bloorview to interview a client of ours who was the inspiration for his book Zoom, about a girl and her power wheelchair. The book captures the beauty and fragility of life and the undying bond between child and parent. So he picks her up and rocks her in the rocking chair while he sings it. When he comes over she begins to sing the song, but she can't finish it. Her grown son moves away from home, and even then, she drives to his house at night, a ladder strapped to the top of her car, so she can climb in the window and sing to, and rock, him again.Įventually, the mother gets old and calls the son to come see her. She sings it during the 'terrible twos,' when he flushes her watch down the toilet she sings it when he's nine and tracks muddied shoes and bad words through the kitchen she sings it when his loud teen music makes her feel like she lives in a zoo. In Munsch's book, a mother creeps into her son's room after he's asleep and picks him up and sings this song as she rocks him. Singing the lines in the hopes my baby would 'feel it' was a way to defy and deflect the doctor who treated him like a piece of broken machinery and trotted out a litany of things that were 'wrong' with him at an hour old. Robert Munsch is an award winning author and his books can be found here on Amazon (kbc affiliate link).When my son was born with 'unusual features' and a suspected genetic condition, Robert Munsch's Love You Forever popped into my mind.

This one is for the pleasure of the mom reliving the cycle of life in the pages of a beautiful book. This is one every mother would love to read to her child. I love you for always….” the song continues.He listens quietly to the story and looks at the pictures with great interest. When he returns to his home he also sings to his new born that very same song. I get goosebumps when the same boy, now a man, goes back to his aged mother and sings the same song to her. It is a heart warming story of how a mother sings to her son as he grows over the years from an infant, young boy, teenager and then finally to a grown man. I even tried to read it exactly how my teacher read it to me. As she read it each time I held on to the words.Īfter decades, I read this special story to my son. This story left such an impact on me that I never forgot it. My teacher read this very story to me when I was just in the first standard.

Love you forever by robert munsch summary