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Guess How Much I Love You | 
 enlarge | Author: Sam Mcbratney
Creator: Anita Jeram
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £3.99
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 8522
Media: Board book
Edition: New edition
Pages: 20
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0744549183
EAN: 9780744549188
ASIN: 0744549183
Publication Date: July 1, 1996
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
All children want reassurance that their parents' love runs wide and deep. In Guess How Much I Love You, a young rabbit named Little Nutbrown Hare thinks he's found a way to measure the boundaries of love. In a heartwarming twist on the "I-can-do-anything-you-can-do-better" theme, Little Nutbrown Hare goes through a series of declarations regarding the breadth of his love for Big Nutbrown Hare. But even when his feelings stretch as long as his arms, or as high as his hops, LittleNutbrown Hare is fondly one-upped by the elder rabbit's more expansive love. Anita Jeram's illustrations are bound to elicit an "ah" from even the sternest of readers; these loving rabbits are expressive, endearing, and never cloying. In turn, Sam McBratney tells a simple bedtime story of sweet familial love with humour, insight, and a delightful surprise at the end. Children and parents will love snuggling up for this one--a treat to be read again and again, just before the lights are turned out. (Ages 4 to 8) --Amazon.com
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If ever there was a book that deserves 5 stars March 5, 2008
Gisli Jokull Gislason (Iceland)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
First let me tell you I am a father of 2 children. Secondly let me tell you that I am a police officer in his forties. Then let me tell you that the book still brings tears to my eyes when I read it (or in fact write this review).
I must confess that beautiful with a little sad does the trick and this book is one of the best childrens books ever written. It tells the story of the little Nut Brown Hare that is being put to sleep by the Big Nut Brown Hare and how the Little Nut Brown Hare is trying to express his/her love for the Big Nut Brown Hare, he/she loves him/her as much as he/she can streach his/her arms, jump high, run fast (there is no gender in the book, so it can be daughter/father, son/mother, big sister/little brother or any other combination) and yet the Big Nut Brown Hare always outdoes the Little Brown Hare by streaching further, jumping higher or running faster. But the end has a twist - such a sweet twist.
There is a lot of love in the book and children relate very well with it and understand the dilemma of the Little Brown Hare who is bursting to express his/her love for the Big Brown Hare. Both parent and child will feel a little more affectionate during and after the read.
The book is so simple in concept and perfect in execution. The pictures and story combine very well.
The book is perfect and worth every star.
Once read never forgotten!! January 13, 2003
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
Ok, so it's a short simple story of two cute hares and how they try and articulate how much they love each other. Sounds soppy? Think this book is just for babies and us girlies?
Wrong on both accounts!
Bought this for my ill partner (middle aged 'roughy toughy' male!!!) and read it to him when he was real poorly. I have never seen anyone smile and brighten up so much in all my life! What more can I say? It's a 'feel good' book for adults and children alike. You love someone? Just buy - you'll love it, they'll love, you'll both love it together! Go on, give it a try!
A special book to share with your baby April 4, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My daughter has enjoyed this book since she was a tiny baby. The wording is loving without being soppy, and has a good rhythym (so if you have to read it as often as I have you will soon know it off by heart). We follow the actions as the hares stretch their arms wide, and hop up and down, gradually relaxing as they snuggle down and go to sleep. I buy copies for my friends and they all love it.
It's a perfect I love you book!! January 31, 2006
jacqui morris (England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Even when my children(5)ranging from 16yrs to 7yrs!are driving me mad we know how much we mean to each other because of this book.They have all read it and three have their own copies my only son included.It lets us show there are no boundaries to the love between a child/children and their parents.When I first read this book it was a gift from my brother to my new born son as a welcome home gift and it brought tears to my eyes. It comes strongly recommended my all of my children!
Eloquent Expressions of Parent-Child Love August 18, 2007
Donald Mitchell (Boston)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Guess How Much I Love You is a well-earned recipient of the Abby Award.
This book is very uniquely plotted. Unlike most books for bedtime, the two protagonists are male (apparently father and son, although that is left unstated). And they spend the whole book describing and showing their love for one another. I know of no other book that provides this sort of man-boy modeling about expressing love and appreciation for one another.
Yet at the same time, the "maleness" of the two characters is subdued so that the pair could be very easy to see them as female characters (a mother-daughter pair). Obviously, mixed pairs (mother-son and father-daughter) are even easier to imagine. So everyone can relate to expressing love and receiving expressions of love in return when reading this delightful story.
The other attraction of this story is that the youngster, Little Nutbrown Hare, takes the lead. He wants to describe his love first. Children can start to be reticent about their feelings beginning around age 4, and this book should help overcome that shyness. Fathers of my generation and older have been reticent since that age with everyone, so this book will help a few parents as well to show their feelings.
As for age level, this book should start to appeal at about age 2 1/2 to 3. You will be reading the story to your youngster at that age. In time, with memorization, you will be listening to the story. Later, you child will actually learn to read it to you.
The illustrations are gently subdued, to help create a mood of drowsiness. Nicely done, Ms. Anita Jeram!
The story opens with Little Nutbrown Hare on his way to sleep. He is riding on top of Big Nutbrown Hare, holding onto the larger hare's very long ears. The plot development begins when Little Nutbrown Hare raises the title challenge: Guess how much I love you.
Little Nutbrown Hare uses his body to show how much. Big Nutbrown Hare, being larger, outdoes him when he repeats what Little Nutbrown Hare has said in terms of his own adult body. Little Nutbrown Hare then goes on to use his eyes to create even larger distances to express the greatness of his love. Big Nutbrown Hare comes up with even larger distances, based on his longer experience.
As Little Nutbrown Hare goes to sleep after making his greatest expression of love, Big Nutbrown Hare says nothing until after Little Nutbrown Hare is in the land of nod. Then Big Nutbrown Hare makes his final expression of love . . . a very beautiful one (involving about 500,000 miles).
After you have finished enjoying this heartfelt story, I suggest that you think about more ways that you can express your love more often to those you care about. Use the concepts in this book to come up with ways to flesh out the simple, "I love you" to make the expression more tangible to the hearer. I suspect you will receive many bouquets of expressed love as a result.
May love be with and come from you . . . always!
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