This highly anticipated picture book seems written for adults or perhaps better appreciated when viewed through the lens of nostalgia and some age. Neither of my children loved it.

This book is everything I hoped it would be.

Delaney loves "Love," so she gives it "twenty hundred" stars!!

I can't imagine a situation where it would make sense to read this book. It is so heavy handed and at the same time so obtuse! The tone was all over the place. Pump the breaks, y'all. Even Newbery Award winners need a good editor.

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Well, that was beautiful -- both in words and images. I appreciated the incredibly diverse depictions of people and even of love: that it isn't always sunshine and rainbows, but love that "flames out," that is "overlooked." Loren Long's art is created with "collaged monotype prints, acrylic paint, and pencil." Printmaking is somewhat rare in picture books, and monotypes especially.

Better than I expected and I expected the world! I have been walking around the library sticking in this people's hands since I saw it.

The current top-rated review of this book says that the book, "seems written for adults or perhaps better appreciated when viewed through the lens of nostalgia and some age."That's possibly true, but I just read it to my six year old daughter, Poppy, and she wanted to turn around and read it right back to me.My (human, not just virtual) friend Chris read this as part of his sermon yesterday. He and his wife have worked with the youth in our church this past year, and together they spoke to the c...

The artwork in this book in unbelievable. So beautiful. I love all these different people in it. This book is showing all these various ways LOVE shows up in our lives, in good times and in hard times. It is always with us. It is a powerful story that is fairly abstract. It does a great job at this for adult or Teens. It meant a lot to me, but I don't think this was for children. Neither one of the kids really got this book. They thought the pictures we pretty, but the older one said the story w...

Has Matt de la Pena written a book that will not bring me to tears? I'm starting to think that answer is no.THIS BOOK IS BEAUTIFUL. "In the beginning there is lightand two wide-eyed figures standingnear the foot of your bedand the sound of their voices is love." In Love, we move through life, identifying all the love along the way. If you ever needed a reminder to "recognize a love overlooked", look no farther than this sweet book.

Each year my family reads all the Goodreads-award-nominated picture books, and we have been doing this for years. Everyone rates each book and adds a comment and it may (or may not) affect my overall rating. This is book #2 of 2018. Lyra (11): (11) 4.5 stars. I love how the story has a different kid in every segment, with a different race, gender and age. I like how it shows what they each truly love.Hank (12): 3 stars. It was ok. I didn't really get it.Harry (13): 2.5 stars. I didn't get the po...

A lovely children's book.

Yes, I finally got it, and yes, it is as beautiful as everyone has said and written and praised. Matt de la Pena infuses his words with loving scenes but has not made it all sweet and happy. He's acknowledged that sometimes love seems to hide and it's a challenge to look and look and still not find it. Then, it is found and feels very very good. In his fabulous illustrations, Loren Long has included people who live in different places, play in various ways, people who are part of our lives. He

We read the Spanish version called 'Amor'. It was so poetic and the illustrations were beautiful to look at. It got me teary eyed. Some pages were subtle but with a powerful message like a boy hiding under a piano. It looks like him and his dog are playing peekaboo with his mom but if you look closer there is a glass with ice, a man walking away, mom is actually crying, boy and dog are scared while the furniture is turned upside down. But there is Amor all around us even when things are tough. B...

This book is so frigging fantastic, I can't stand it. Every single page is a thing of beauty. If you want all the feels, read Love. Plus, if you haven't read Matt de la Peña's essay called Why We Shouldn’t Shield Children From Darkness, you really should. It's beautiful and specifically mentions Love.

This is one of those books that you read slowly and digest the words along with the gorgeous illustrations that enhance the words with powerful beauty. It's also the kind of book that you're sad that you can never go back and read for the first time again. It disappoints you. But you'll remember the first time you read it and the feelings that it evoked. de la Pena and Long focus on slices of life and how they are enhanced by love with the final page reminding me of one of the speeches that Hami...

You know how, if you say a word over and over again for long enough, it starts to lose its meaning? Unfortunately, I think that's what happened here. In this book everything is love, and while on some level that might be true, it's a message that would probably ring hollow when your parents are fighting or your building is burning down or you have a nightmare after seeing something awful on TV. Equating all of those things with love didn't make much sense to me as an adult, and I'm not sure it w...

I just really didn't like this book. The illustrations are pretty, but the text is very abstract and not the kind of thing most little kids find appealing. A good number of the lines sound more meaningful than they actually are. For example, I can't think of a context in which a parent would ever say, "It's okay, it's love," nor does it really make any sense to say of the stars that "the shine they shine with is love." It was also completely unclear what gathering around the TV during a tragedy

Run, don't walk to LOVE. Read LOVE slowly. Share LOVE locally. Gift LOVE widely.

Nice illustrations. I didn't care much for the text; I found it too saccharine for my tastes. It's the kind of book that will be gifted to high school grads come springtime.