Overview
With just the right amount of sugar and spice, Before You is the perfect gift for anyone you love, any time of the year. I was a flower with no pot I was a polka with no dot What did I do before you came along and changed the tune? Through simple, yet lively text and whimsical illustration, the love from parent to child, or lover to lover, or friend to friend, is celebrated. The perfect gift for baby showers, Valentine's Day, birthdays, weddings, and beyond. 'Before You' also works perfectly as a comforting and joyful read-aloud for parents to tuck their children into bed with. For fans of perennial favourites like 'I Like You' and 'Guess How Much I Love You'. AGES: 4-77 AUTHOR: Rebecca Doughty is the author/illustrator of 'Oh No! Time to Go!: A Book of Goodbyes' and 'Some Helpful Tips to a Better World and a Happier Life'. She has illustrated for numerous board books, gift books, and picture books, including One of Those Days. Visit her website at: www.rebeccadoughty.com. REVIEWS: Doughty's cartoons never turn saccharine, especially in forlorn scenes of ice-cream-less cones and about-to-be-squashed four-leaf clovers in the first half of the book, and her poem works just as well to describe a parent's love of his or her child as it does to express romantic affection. - Publishers Weekly
Full Product Details
Author: Rebecca Doughty ,
Rebecca Doughty
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin
Weight: 0.340kg
ISBN: 9780544463172
ISBN 10: 054446317
Pages: 32
Publication Date: 27 December 2016
Recommended Age: From 4 to 7 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
* ...[Doughty's] poem works just as well to describe a parent's love of his or her child as it does to express romantic affection. --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review ...[Before You's] bounty of metaphors and clever depictions of them make it a boon for classroom use. --Kirkus --
* .. .[Doughty's] poem works just as well to describe a parent's love of his or her child as it does to express romantic affection. <b>--Publishers Weekly, STARRED review</b> .. .[<i>Before You</i>'s] bounty of metaphors and clever depictions of them make it a boon for classroom use. <b>--Kirkus</b>
.. .[<i>Before You</i>'s] bounty of metaphors and clever depictions of them make it a boon for classroom use. <b> Kirkus</b>
Author Information
Rebecca Doughty is the author/illustrator of Oh No! Time to Go!: A Book of Goodbyes and Some Helpful Tips to a Better World and a Happier Life. She has illustrated for numerous board books, gift books, and picture books, including One of Those Days. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband. Visit her website at www.rebeccadoughty.com.
