I Love You At Sky Library, Feeling Like Spring

Cyan and I went to the Annette branch of the Toronto Public Library today. The first book I randomly chose from the kiddie stacks was I Love You, Little One by Nancy Tafuri (Scholastic). We checked it out. Our own collection includes I Love You, Stinkyface (Lisa McCourt, Cyd Moore), I Love You: A Rebus Poem (Jean Marzollo), and Guess How Much I Love You (Sam Mcbratney, Anita Jeram).

The second book I selected was The Last Piece of Sky written by Tim Wynne-Jones and illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay (Groundwood). When we opened to the full title page, we discovered the above “I Love You Sky” message. I think I’d like to write a children’s book of the same title!

This reminds me of the first story ever written by Patricia (6 years old at the time), sent by her proud Uncle Gregory Betts.

THESE ARE THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW I WROTE
Love grows like flowers and in all different colours because there are
different kinds of love – four loves for happy. Grey and brown loves are
for when you’re angry and the pink is happy and the second pink over the
blue is really super happy and the blue is happy completely. The pink
and the blue are the same thing. The two pinks together are sad. The
yellow tulip is marking the Lord and the pink tulip is marking love. The
grass stands for the beauty. The sun stands for the bright. The sky
stands for the colour blue. The white pronounces wind.