Love is for Roaring

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Want a cute picture book that speaks to the power of good friends in your life?  Check out Love is for Roaring! Because you know what?  Not everyone expresses love in exactly the same way!  Sometimes we need some help to figure out how each person (or even yourself) expresses love.  

The Basic Facts

Bloomsbury Children’s books together with Raincoast books sent me this wonderful picture book entitled Love is for Roaring.  This hardcover book with dustcover is written with children 4-8 years old in mind. At 32 pages it’s a bit shorter than some of the picture books I’ve reviewed lately. 

Written by Mike Kerr and illustrated by Renata Liwska.  These Canadian people also put together Crafty Llama which looks like one I’d like to read as well!  🙂  Renata is an award-winning illustrator of many books. Mike is an instructor of illustration at the Alberta University of the Arts.

Learning more about Love is For Roaring

Imagine a scenario where, when you think of love you just think of foofy things.  Flowers, rainbows, chocolate, or hearts.  Imagine you are asked to complete a project that focuses on love.  You are supposed to show your love.  This is an impossible task!  However will you complete it???   

This is where the beauty of friendships (and this book) come into play.

But you have a brave friend.  A friend willing to risk your wrath by asking questions.  I LOVE just love how Lion’s friend mouse chose to ask questions instead of making assumptions.  These are questions based on how mouse understands his friend.  But they lead to Lion better understanding himself and what LOVE means to him.    Such an excellent win!

The illustrations fit the mood and story perfectly.  You see all the emotions from disgust and anger to laughter and fun.  (and yes, here I’m claiming that fun is an emotion!).  🙂  

The use of colour and memory is just spot on.  A truly lovely little picture book. 

Should you get it?

Oh yes!  Have fun with your littles and learn how people can be so different in how they express love.  And even better yet, how we can all be the same.   

Love is for Roaring is by no means a complicated picture book, but it is a fun one that I think children and their caregivers will like equally well.  

This would be a fun book to use for teaching the letter R or working with a valentine’s day unit study, or just for reading with your children.