Guess How Much I Love You - Dark Publications

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
Little Nutbrown Hare wants very much to impress Big Nutbrown Hare with the enormous scale of his devotion, but ends up being the one who's impressed. Subtitled "a pop-up edition," this sturdy square edition of Sam McBratney's ever-popular Guess How Much I Love You is probably better described as a "slide-along edition." Some pages do include pop-ups, but they aren't the best ones; instead, most involve pull-tabs which animate the two rabbits and their surroundings. One of the most appealing scenes simply shows Little Nutbrown Hare hopping up and down. In a purely technical sense this exercise in interactive cardboard technology is well behind some of the competition, but the tale has a timeless charm and the very simplicity of the movements makes it easy for small fingers to waggle the tabs and take control of the story. (Ages 2 to 4) --Richard Farr

Product Description
The American Booksellers Book of the Year nominee is available as a sturdy board book for the youngest of children. Little Nutbrown Hare wants to show Big Nutbrown Hare how very much he loves him - but love as big as his is very hard to measure!

Customer Reviews: Read 288 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

And did I mention the lovely illustrations? November 18, 2005
117 out of 140 found this review helpful

I was initially introduced to this book before I had kids of my own. I hope my brother doesn't mind me telling this story. He had a nightmarish travel day with his son, including cancelled flights, stuck in the airport, I believe my nephew was about one year old at the time, he had puked, and they had no change of clothes for him. Very frustrating. He bought this book and read it to his son and found himself moved to tears by the end, the chaos of the day suddenly put into perspective.

I bought this book after my first daughter was born. It hasn't made it into her top ten list, maybe because we are not a father and son, or maybe because we didn't read it in the context of a massive catharsis. But she likes it, and I like it. It illustrates the idea that a parent's love for their child is the greatest love one can feel, a feeling that can only be experienced by having kids (although it can be approximated by having medium-haired blue tabbies). No matter how much your baby loves you, you love your baby more, and they won't understand until they have a baby of their own.

A minor concern: The characters are Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare. For those of us with mild dyslexia, it is too easy to refer to them as Little Brown Nut-Hair and Big Brown Nut-Hair, which is very different and considerably changes the tone of the story. I accept that this may be my personal problem, and I don't even believe it is appropriate to share it in in this format.

Oh, and did I mention the lovely illustrations? As always, buy this book, thank you for listening, and goodbye.

5 out of 5 stars

Guess How Much I Love You! May 5, 2000
46 out of 50 found this review helpful

This is my daughter and my favorite book. She is 31/2yrs. old and we enjoy reading it every night before she goes to bed. I started to read it to her a year and a half ago when she was two years old, and now she can read it to me. It has created a special bond between us. It has to be the last book we read so she can dream about hares and her mommy and how much we love each other. We often play a game about guessing how much we love each other. She will jump as high as she can or spread her sweet little arms out as wide as they will go. I just want to thank Sam McBratney for touching our lives in such a special way. Also, I would like to thank him for the wonderful memories he has provided for me and my daughter. I know I will remember it forever, I hope my daughter does as well. Thank you Sam.

5 out of 5 stars

Expresses a mother's love perfectly November 25, 1999
45 out of 48 found this review helpful

My mom bought this for me as a gift after my first son was born. I had to go back to work when he was 3 months old. She gave it to me one weekend and I sat and read it and just started crying. It was when I read that last line--I love you all the way to the moon and back--that really touched me. It made me realize how much I was missing my baby boy during the day. I also noticed that Big Nutbrown Hare waits until the little one is asleep to say the last line. That also reflects how much a parent loves a child. He would never want to outdo his baby just because he's bigger. He let Little Nutbrown Hare go to sleep thinking he won that little game. What a sweet, sweet story.

5 out of 5 stars

Appealing on many levels-a great book for toddlers. March 3, 2002
39 out of 46 found this review helpful

There is a lot to like about this book. First of all, it has a very positive love message for fathers and sons, not all that common a theme in children's books. Secondly, the sort of "one-ups-man-ship" theme is on that naturally appeals to kids that age. The story itself is sweet without being cloying, and the illustrations are first rate.

A great book for older pre-schoolers. As has been noted in many previous reviews, reading the book seems to stimulate a "how much do you love me" game with the kids and parents who read the book a lot. Given that the desire to be loved is one key need at this age group, a book that stimulates you to talk and play with your child in a way that distinctly communicates your love for him/her has got to be a good thing.

This is one of those books your kid's will grow out of before you do-much to your sorrow.

I highly recommend it.

1 out of 5 stars Awkward and Competitive January 15, 2002
29 out of 42 found this review helpful

I love childrens' stories and I love my children but guess how little I love this book. Like cheap chocolate, it is sweet but not good quality and not very satisfying. From a literary point of view, the phrases "big nutbrown hare" and "little nutbrown hare" seem specially chosen to be hard to read outloud and if the book is aimed at children, as opposed to just their parents, the lack of rhyme or rythm is a significant negative. The bigger issue though is the underlying message about the limitted ability of children to love, or perhaps to express their love. There are many beautiful books about loving parent/child relationships out there so why settle for one which models a competitive approach where no matter how creatively the child expresses it's love the adult trumps it, even after the child has fallen asleep and can no longer respond? If I read this book to my sons, I stop before the last page; but a better solution is to leave this book at the back of the shelf and read other books such as Mama Do You Love Me? which communicates the unconditional nature of parental love while letting children know that parents can have other feelings such as anger, sadness, or fear or loneliness at the same time. As a bonus, Mama Do You Love Me? introduces children to Alaskan First Nations images as opposed to some relatively repetitive "nutbrown hares". There are so many other better books I don't even want to start listing them. Sure we want our children to grow up feeling loved and knowing how to love; do you really want them to grow up with this type of competitive feel good mush as their model?

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