How Do I Love Thee? Love by Emma Dodd

LOVE IS IN THE MORNING WHEN YOU WAKE AND SMILE AT ME.

LOVE IS WHEN WE TALK TOGETHER, HAPPY AS CAN BE.

A most loving mother rabbit counts the ways she loves her child. Their day begins early in their warm burrow and continues as they venture out into a field deep with blooming yellow daisies like sunlight.

They continue their day in the quiet of the deep woods. Mama Rabbit is there to catch Baby as he almost tumbles off a big rock, and to keep him warm as they huddle to shelter from a sudden shower, and to smile with joy when they stop to sniff a flower. Mama Bunny loves her baby, even when he's naughty and does something wrong.

THE WORLD IS MUCH MORE LOVELY SINCE YOU CAME ALONG.

The love between mother and child fills Emma Dodd's Love (Emma Dodd's Love You Books) (Nosy Crow, 2016). Dodd's couplets are simple but expressive, and her illustrations are lovely, with blackline outlines and soft, digital colorization highlighted with gold-leaf accents that give the fields and woodlands a soft glow. Mother love is the first love, and Emma Dodd knows how to show it in this and others of her small books for the very young, such as Together,(Emma Dodd's Love You Books) Happy (Emma Dodd's Love You Books), Always (Emma Dodd's Love You Books), and Forever (Emma Dodd's Love You Books).