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I Love You, Too!

In a celebration of the relationship between father and son, this story tells the classic story of a boy who is stalling going to sleep at the end of his bedtime story: he tells his dad he loves him, and when his dad confirms he loves him, too, the son goes on to say he loves dad three.  Once they reach the number five, the son moves on to other descriptors, declaring he loves his dad more than the toys in the toy box, more than all the flowers of summer, more than all the fishes in the sea….  Each time Dad insists he loves Son more and tells him yet again to go to sleep.  Eventually Dad falls asleep, and it’s the son who does the tucking in.  My only critique is that there seems to be a bit of a disconnect in mood between the text (rather sentimental and mushy) and the illustrations (more bright and cheerful and cute).