Love You, Mum - Couverture souple

This is a simple and short rhyme, perfect for bedtime. Each page features a different Australian animal mother and baby set in an Australian landscape portrayed with soft colours. The animals themselves are presented in a realistic way. Each page has a different time of the day and shared activity (morning, when we sing together, when it's just you and me, in the evening) and follows a chronological structure from morning until night. Each page states, 'I love you . . . ' followed by something the mum says at that time (eg. 'Wake up sleepyhead', 'Hold on tight'). It ends with a reversal of who is speaking; whereas throughout the rest of the book the mother is speaking to the child, on the last page the baby animal says 'I love you, Mum'.
This is a simple story that captures the special times shared between mother and child.

I love you in the morning.
'Wake up, sleepyhead.'
I love you at breakfast.
'Time to get you fed.'
I love your piggyback rides.
'Hold on tight, let's go.'
I love you when we sing together.
'Do re mi fa so.'

In this lovely picture book, Karen Hull's gorgeous, life-like illustrations of Australian animals are matched with a heart-warming story that celebrates the everyday love between mothers and their young children at every time of the day.