Reviewer Conny Withay:Operating her own business in office management since 1991, Conny is an avid reader and volunteers with the elderly playing her designed The Write Word Game. A cum laude graduate with a degree in art living in the Pacific Northwest, she is married with two sons, two daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren.
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Author: Zev Lewinson
Illustrator: Robert Nailon
Publisher: Swordpen
ISBN: 978-0-9799653-6-4
Author: Zev Lewinson
Illustrator: Robert Nailon
Publisher: Swordpen
ISBN: 978-0-9799653-6-4
When a child asks “Do you love me?” a parent can never explain enough the endearing and amazing love he or she has for that child. Based on the author’s own experience of such an event with one of his children, Zev Lewinson writes about unending parental love in his children’s book, Of Course I Love You!
This unnumbered but around thirty pages, over-sized paperback book has a cartoon-type drawing of a father and son resting in a grassy field with several animals, a fireman and airplane surrounding them on the front cover. The back cover has a paragraph about the book contents with three book reviews on several flying white papers. Illustrator Robert Nailon does an excellent job depicting realistic, detailed, yet cartoon-looking characters through his photo-montages on each of the visuals spread out between every two pages. The book is targeted toward young preschool age children but could be reminisced and enjoyed by any adult or parent who has similar feelings while reading to their loved ones.
This tome is about a young
boy named Adam who is playing at the park on a nice summer day with
his father when he quizzically and suddenly inquires if his father
loves him and by how much. The surprised father says, “Of course I
love you!” and the two have a lively discussion about love and how
it never ceases between parent and child.
The boy questions if his father will bravely protect him from hungry lions, to which the father replies his love is as indescribable as the ocean and sky if he had to write about them. When the son asks the father if he would save him from a house on fire, the father reiterates he would travel from one side of the universe to the other just for a hug, kiss or smile of his son’s. When Adam asks if he would wrestle animals to protect him, the dad insists he would cross the hottest desert or climb the highest mountain to spend time with the lad. After many scenarios the young boy finally asks if there is anything his father would not do for him and the father says he would never, ever stop loving him.
This is a wonderful short story that confirms a parent’s love toward his child and should be read and discussed often so the child is reassured and comforted of that special bond of love between the two of them that can never be broken.
