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Angela Schultz

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Writer's Block: Reconsidering Children's Books

[Nov. 16th, 2008|11:04 pm]

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Have you ever gone back and re-read a book you loved as a child only to find it incredibly disturbing now that you're an adult? Like The Giving Tree, for example: a terrifying tale of self-sacrifice or a reassuring story of maternal love?

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I absolutely loved this book called "I Love you forever."

And in it, this mother sings this song to her child at various stages in this boys/mans life.

"I love you forever,
I like you for always,
As long as I'm living,
My baby you'll be."

I absolutely love this book, but there is one slight problem. I mean, it starts out all fine. She sings this to her baby, then her toddler. Then she sneaks into her child's room when he's a preteen, then a teen (which is a little weird, but not completely out of the ordinary). But then this boy grows to be a grown adult. He has a home, a wife, a child, and she drives all the way across town just to sneak in his window, and pick him up and rock him singing this song.

I can't believe how much I adored this book. It's basically about a stalker mother! Yet, somehow, I read this book to the kids I babysit.

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