Love

Author: Matt de la Peña

Illustrator: Loren Long

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2018

Publisher’s recommended age: 3+

A deeply poignant look at love which tells a difficult truth: even those who are well loved will eventually learn that the world holds sadness and loss in addition to comfort and sweetness. Love is a constant on every page, but it is sometimes found in difficulty and trials. The result is a book that is lyrical and sensitive…likely to leave readers of all ages a little tremulous, and brimming with feeling. Long’s artwork is, in his words, “a bit raw, a bit vulnerable, a bit messy…flawed here and beautiful there. Kind of like love itself.” In the end, this book has the power to look into the darkness and still find stars twinkling overhead.

Available Languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Slovenian