Review by Booklist Review
Tillman's self-described mission to let children know that they are loved is well manifested here. Formulaically similar in format and tone to On the Night You Were Born (2006) and Eric Metaxas' It's Time to Sleep, My Love (2008), which Tillman illustrated, this picture book presents a heartfelt, greeting card-worthy rhyme matched with fanciful mixed-media images of a child who cavorts across brilliantly hued landscapes and is joined by wild animals, from peacocks to pandas, along the way. On every spread, the speaker promises undying adoration and support: My love is so high, and so wide and so deep, it's always right there, even when you're asleep. The line between sweetness and schmaltz is subjective, and some may slot this offering into the latter camp. But the appeal of a title such as this that encourages an adult and child to snuggle affectionately together with a book is undeniable and may make this just the balm the doctor (or librarian) ordered.--Medlar, Andrew Copyright 2010 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
As a child frolics in a magical version of the natural world, the narrator coos her enduring parental love: "I wanted you more/ than you ever will know,/so I sent love to follow/ wherever I go." The child, of neutral ethnicity and indeterminate gender (thanks to an orange bucket hat and compositions that always show him or her in profile or from behind) is one lucky kid: there's a piggyback ride on a hippo, apple-picking with the help of an albino giraffe, a park bench chat with pandas, and a snooze that literally entails lying down with the lambs. Tillman's (On the Night You Were Born) digital artwork teeters of the edge of saccharine, and she's too fond of dancing blobs of lights. But she has an unerring instinct for dramatic composition-in these pages, readers get the sense of spying on a secret world-and her potent combination of unapologetic sentiment, fantasy, photorealism, and painterliness has an undeniable allure. As with her other books, the real audience is probably grownups looking for a misty-eyed interlude. Ages 4-8. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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Review by Horn Book Review
My love is so high, and so wide and so deep, it's always right there, even when you're asleep." Tillman's thoroughly unsubtle message about unconditional love is related in treacly rhymes. More interesting are the visually engaging mixed-media illustrations portraying a child's world in which bunnies play hide-and-seek and kangaroos jump on trampolines. (c) Copyright 2011. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
(Picture book. 4-7)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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