My Love Will Be with You

Said the father monkey to his child, "Someday you'll climb to the tops of the trees."

Said the father dolphin to his child, "Someday you'll swim off to faraway seas."

From the author and illustrator of I Love You As Much . . . comes this tender lullaby of enduring devotion from a father to his child.

From now until always, I want you to know my love will be with you wherever you go.

"A companion to this author-illustrator team's previous effort, I Love You as Much..., which focused on motherly love, this cuddly picture book instead celebrates the relationship between fathers and their children. Each spread features stirring images of a papa and baby animal pair in their natural habitat, and a couplet of verse containing words of wisdom spoken by the elder, e.g., 'Said the father panda to his child, "Someday you'll snuggle your own cub and dream." ' The cozy and warm-toned oil portraits of a father lion licking his cub, awash in golden sunlight, and of a majestic eagle watching over his chick in their lofty mountain nest, are the perfect pairing for the text's gentle rhythm and rhyme scheme. Though certain to tug especially at parents' heartstrings, the reassuring words here will have kids clamoring to share some quiet time reading this book with someone they love. Ages 2-7." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Laura Krauss Melmed is author of Capital! Washington D.C. from A to Z and New York, New York! The Big Apple from A to Z, also illustrated by FranÉ Lessac; I Love You As Much . . . , illustrated by Henri Sorensen; and the critically acclaimed The Rainbabies, illustrated by Jim LaMarche. She lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.