Consider Love

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By artist and illustrator Sandra Boynton, this volume explores the many and curious modes of love, from the sentimental to the soulful.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Arriving just in time for Valentine's Day gift giving, this bouncy volume should please the palates of those searching for a sweet confection for a special someone. An appealing menagerie of Boynton's inimitable animal characters court and cavort through these buoyant pages, demonstrating how love "comes in every shape, and style." Acting out emotions suggested by the minimal rhyming text, these critters demonstrate such phenomena as "hopeful love" (a rabbit's ears form the shape of a heart), "love extravagant" (an elephant presents his amour with an entire apple tree, roots and all), "love perhaps foolish" (a hippo dives head-first into a layer cake) and "love overzealous" (a beaver chomps heart-shaped designs on tree trunks). In a final spread, the animals gather together as the narrative winds to an unabashedly sentimental, sing-song close: "Now consider one love in the midst of the crowd an affectionate love, neither timid nor loud.... A love that is steady, devoted, and true Consider my love for incredible you." Aw, shucks. What's not to love or at least like? All ages. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Horn Book Review

This list of many kinds of love--There's tiny love and love unbounded. Logical love and love unfounded--ends with my love for incredible you. Despite being illustrated with Boynton's loose, humorous cartoons, there is little child appeal in this thirty-two-page Valentine's Day card for adults. From HORN BOOK Fall 2002, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Kirkus Book Review

While clearly intended as pop candy for the grown-up soul, Boynton's latest has a genuine appeal for children of several ages. She has a definite way with words and illustrates them with her waggish, anthropomorphized animals, rich in linear expression and familiar to anyone who has been in a greeting-card store in the past couple of decades. "There's simple love"-two bears waltzing-"and love mysterious"-a veiled elephant presents a heart to another; "Frivolous love"-a cow sporting heart-shaped earrings and eyeglasses "and love too serious"-an anxious turkey interrupts his ladylove's reading. "Comfortable love" finds two pigs side-by-side, while "love problematic" has two porcupines gazing soulfully at each other. There are lots of titles that talk to children about divorce and loss and blended families; but there aren't all that many that talk about love-handholding, Valentine-sending love-in such a direct way. "A love that appreciates fire, and grace. / A love that adores / one remarkable face. / A love that is steady, devoted, and true- / Consider my love for incredible you." (Picture book. 7 )