I Will Love You, written by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, reviewed by Klaudia Janek

Student Reviewer: Yitian Z.
Summary: This book is about how a mother expresses her emotions and feelings towards the love for her daughter through a lullaby liked versed tone. She conveys this by using examples of nature and incorporating elements of literary devices like personification and imagery to all five senses. The mother in the story that is trying to convey this message is white, and her daughter is brown. The illustrator expresses the appreciation between their relationships through the fantastical themes shown ranging from “soaring on fluffy clouds” to dancing on the beach, and soothed by animal’s physical features like the “butterfly’s wings. This book can be suited for the general audience of kids that are in preschool or kindergarten that are ages 3 to 5 and moms that would like to read bedtime stories and learn from a book about their loving relationships. In the library, a mother-daughter book display can be set up showing the different kinds of relationships that include adoptive parents, single moms, and just the overall relationship of a mother and daughter.

Straight Talk for Librarians: In “I Will Love You” by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, the mother expresses her motions and feeling towards the love for her daughter through a lullaby using versed tone. She conveys this by using examples of nature and incorporating elements of literary devices like personification and imagery to all five senses. By incorporating personification by “tickled by the rainbow a silky rain brings”, it demonstrates the gentle aspects of the youth as seen from nature's perspective. The repetition of this book also stands out for the overall theme or idea of “I will love you” no matter what circumstance has occurred to the child. This is repeated to show the importance of the relationship and the perspectives that can be expressed for the warming tone and quality for her daughter. This is a great book for bedtime stories with just a mom and daughter as the relationship can be developed warmly before the child goes to bed. This is heartwarming for both as a sweet memory of nature’s words on love is expressed before the child starts to sleep. The illustrations in the book are also very creative and fits well with the overall tone of the story. The paintings that are done by color pencil and watercolor create a very soft perspective and use of warm calm colors is underlying the overall mood of the story.