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Guess How Much I Love You (Little Nutbrown Hare)
"Guess how much I love you," says Little Nutbrown Hare. Little Nutbrown Hare shows his daddy how much he loves him: as wide as he can reach and as far as he can hop. But Big Nutbrown Hare, who can reach farther and hop higher, loves him back just as much. Well then Little Nutbrown Hare loves him right up to the moon, but that's just halfway to Big Nutbrown Hare's love for...more
Board book, 20 pages
Published
January 27th 2005
by Candlewick
(first published 1994)
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This is THE best bedtime story, in my opinion. It was a nightly ritual for my first daughter, and it holds a very special place in our hearts. When it says that the dad bunny leans down and kisses the little one's head, Leah would always lean down and kiss the picture. The page became a little scummy from kiddie goo, and it's PRECIOUS! I will forever cherish my little girl's kisses in the book.
A shot of insulin, please! Sam McBratney's Guess How Much I Love You has lots of saccharine in it—but not to a point it’s cloying, just something that a dreamland-bound kid would surely enjoy. See, there’s no plot of any kind, just a pair of adorable, furry hares (I think they’re father and son) engaging in an equally cute contest on who loves the other more. Anita Jeram’s illustrations are perfectly endearing. I heard there’s a collection of this, and kid or not—geez I just turned twenty!—I’ll...more
One of the only books I can read to my daughter where the adult in the book is a male. Most of the books have no men or relegate the father to support-staff roles.
Having said that, the book is really a testosterone-fueled look at the competitive indoctrination of little boys.
Paraphrase of text:
Kid: I love you as million.
Dad: I love you a billion.
Kid: Can't you let me win once?
Dad: Only when you surpass my strength, then I will live vicariously through you.
Despite this shortcoming, the illustr...more
Having said that, the book is really a testosterone-fueled look at the competitive indoctrination of little boys.
Paraphrase of text:
Kid: I love you as million.
Dad: I love you a billion.
Kid: Can't you let me win once?
Dad: Only when you surpass my strength, then I will live vicariously through you.
Despite this shortcoming, the illustr...more
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I love this story which represents motherlove! After finishing reading this book, I think mother's love that shows to us is always more than our love to mother, though we always think we have more love than her love. As far as I'm concerned, the story also shows the little rabbit's desire for growth as its mother that just like child always wants to grow up as soon as possible. Pictures in this book are bright and warm that make me feel the unselfish love and miss my mum.
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Genre: Picture Book
Title: Guess How Much I Love You
Author: Sam McBratney
Topic: Father and son rabbits compete to express who loves the other more.
Age Level: Primary
Summary: “ The book enters the plot with Little Nutbrown Hare whispering a secret question to Big Nutbrown Hare, his father. He softly says directly into Big Nutbrown Hare’s ear, “Guess How Much I Love You!” This simple question is not so simple. The two rabbits begin a competitive expression of how much they love one another.
“I lov...more
Title: Guess How Much I Love You
Author: Sam McBratney
Topic: Father and son rabbits compete to express who loves the other more.
Age Level: Primary
Summary: “ The book enters the plot with Little Nutbrown Hare whispering a secret question to Big Nutbrown Hare, his father. He softly says directly into Big Nutbrown Hare’s ear, “Guess How Much I Love You!” This simple question is not so simple. The two rabbits begin a competitive expression of how much they love one another.
“I lov...more
Jan 22, 2012
LH Johnson
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
childrens-literature,
picture-books
Guess How Much I Love You is one of those books which, Gruffalo-esque, has firmly rooted itself into popular culture. This review specifically relates to the pop up version from Walker Books (2011).
God I love pop up books. I really really do. A lot of this is due to Huck Scarry's Looking Into The Middle Ages which I read at an early age and have remembered for the past twenty five odd years primarily because of the fact it had POP UP FREAKING HORSES which frankly would endear anything to me rega...more
God I love pop up books. I really really do. A lot of this is due to Huck Scarry's Looking Into The Middle Ages which I read at an early age and have remembered for the past twenty five odd years primarily because of the fact it had POP UP FREAKING HORSES which frankly would endear anything to me rega...more
There was a little hare called Nut brown. He wanted to make sure that big Nutbrown hare was always listening to how much he loved him . Guess how much i love you he said, as big Nutbrown could not guess little nutbrown showed him as he stretched his arms out as wide as he could. Big nutbrown stretched his arms out longer showing how much he loved him. Little nutbrown wished he had arms that long.
So little Nutbrown stretched up high showing how much he loved big Nutbrown. Big Nutbrown did the sa...more
So little Nutbrown stretched up high showing how much he loved big Nutbrown. Big Nutbrown did the sa...more
Little Nutbrown Hare, enjoying a ride on his Papa's back, wants to be sure that his father is listening--so he says, "Guess how much I love you!" the result is a sweet, lighthearted, loving banter as father and son strive to describe the size of their love for each other--thinking bigger and bigger as the book goes on! The father and son bounce off of each other and encourage each other to be increasingly imaginative. Big Nutbrown Hare is quietly amazed by his son's big thinking and his counter...more
Jul 22, 2007
Sondang
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
all children and parents
Shelves:
myfavouriteofalltimes
This not-so-many-pages book is beautifully written.
The idea is so simple.
Touches the very basic question in relationship (any relationship).
Do you love me enough? Do I love you enough?
The simple lines show so much about how great it is to feel secure of being loved by your loved ones.
I love this book so much that it still makes me smile everytime I read it.
Gak nyesel sampe susah-susah nunggu sebulan inden di QB dan bayar 84 rebu cuma buat buku 15 lembar begituw.... :)
The idea is so simple.
Touches the very basic question in relationship (any relationship).
Do you love me enough? Do I love you enough?
The simple lines show so much about how great it is to feel secure of being loved by your loved ones.
I love this book so much that it still makes me smile everytime I read it.
Gak nyesel sampe susah-susah nunggu sebulan inden di QB dan bayar 84 rebu cuma buat buku 15 lembar begituw.... :)
Nov 24, 2007
Carly
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Grades K-2
Shelves:
picture-books
This book is so sweet! It is about a baby rabbit that is getting put to bed and he and his father are talking about how much they love each other. Little kids would love this book because it is so sweet and sincere and I think every child has played this game with a parent at one time or another. It is definitely for the younger kids and would be a good book to read towards to beginning of the school year during a family unit.
1. Rating: 4
2. A book review from Barnes and Noble said, "Little Nutbrown Hare is trying to tell Big Nutbrown Hare just how much he loves him, but each time Big Nutbrown Hare's love seems to be bigger. Indeed, there is no way to measure the love, and Little Nutbrown Hare can finally only express it by saying his love is as far as the moon. After Big Nutbrown Hare kisses Little Nutbrown Hare goodnight, he whispers that his love is as far as the moon and back. This loving goodnight book has expres...more
2. A book review from Barnes and Noble said, "Little Nutbrown Hare is trying to tell Big Nutbrown Hare just how much he loves him, but each time Big Nutbrown Hare's love seems to be bigger. Indeed, there is no way to measure the love, and Little Nutbrown Hare can finally only express it by saying his love is as far as the moon. After Big Nutbrown Hare kisses Little Nutbrown Hare goodnight, he whispers that his love is as far as the moon and back. This loving goodnight book has expres...more
Sep 15, 2011
Liam Mernagh
added it
‘Guess How Much I Love You’ is an illustrated book written by Sam McBratney about two Nutbrown hares, little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare. Little Nutbrown Hare poses the intriguing question to Big Nutbrown Hare, ‘Guess how much I love you.’ This results in the two hares using larger and larger measures to assert how much they love each other. This is a great read for all children ranging from 2 to 8. This book can be read as a reading exercise for some children in class with teachers but...more
Jun 24, 2012
Aoife
added it
Big Nutbrown Hare is getting ready to put Little Nutbrown Hare to sleep for the night, when Little challenges him to guess how much he loves him. Little stretches his arms wide and says, "This much!" Big stretches his arms even wider and returns the love. Little keeps finding bigger and bigger ways to express his love for Big, and each time, Big outdoes him by virtue of his greater size. Finally, Little has to stop and ponder, and then triumphantly claims that his love for Big goes "all the way...more
Guess How Much I Love You. By Sam McBratney. Illustrated by Anita Jeram. Candlewick Press, 1994. 20 pages. $7.99.
Can this much love be measured in words?
This is the story of two hares, Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare, telling each other of their love. It is a board book with a short paragraph on each page or two pages. The text goes across the page and the font is one half inch in height. Italics are used to emphasize certain words and the illustrations are detailed but use muted colo...more
Can this much love be measured in words?
This is the story of two hares, Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare, telling each other of their love. It is a board book with a short paragraph on each page or two pages. The text goes across the page and the font is one half inch in height. Italics are used to emphasize certain words and the illustrations are detailed but use muted colo...more
This book is the ultimate bedtime story to read to younger children. I myself loved this book when I was little and the fact that the whole story is about love warms my heart. As Little Nutbrown Hare hops and stretches to demonstrate to his father how much he loves him, his father hops and stretches higher and wider to demonstrate to his son how much he loves him back. As the story continues Little Nutbrown Hare finally gets tired and goes to sleep as his father kisses him on the forehead undern...more
Mar 31, 2007
jacky
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommended to jacky by:
Lynn Fantasia
I believe I read this in college because a friend loved it because it had a personal meaning for her. I thought it was a cute story that would help teach some about measurement. I've heard books criticized for being too much about how kids are so loved, and not teaching, but I think this is a one that some of both.
Okay this is my favorite book in the whole wide world, so I was surprised to see the number of less than favorable reviews.
To the guy that thinks (and I use that word liberally) that this book is a allegory for socialism, really? I mean really???? Really?????
To everyone else that thinks this book is about a "game of one-upsmanship" or it has a "undercurrent of competition between the parent and the child", You guys could not be more wrong.
Is upsmanship even really a word?
This book is about the n...more
To the guy that thinks (and I use that word liberally) that this book is a allegory for socialism, really? I mean really???? Really?????
To everyone else that thinks this book is about a "game of one-upsmanship" or it has a "undercurrent of competition between the parent and the child", You guys could not be more wrong.
Is upsmanship even really a word?
This book is about the n...more
We love this book. I'll never forget one day when I was putting Katherine to bed and she told me to tell her, "I love you all the way to the moon and back to Earth." So, I told her and then she openned her eyes, looked at me with a big smile and said, "I don't love you all the way to the moon and back to Earth."
Setiap ayah yang punya anak harus membaca buku ini! Sweet bahkan saat saya menceritakan inti cerita kepada ayah, sampai berkaca-kaca sendiri :p
Intinya tentang percakapan anak kelinci yang ingin memamerkan dirinya kepada sang ayah betapa ia mencintainya. Sang anak melompat. Cintaku sebesar lompatanku! Ayah melompat lebih tinggi. Anak tidak kehilangan akal ia membentangkan tangannya, eh ternyata tangan ayah lebih panjang juga. Begitu terus sampai malam menjelang dan sang anak selalu kalah. Akhirny...more
Intinya tentang percakapan anak kelinci yang ingin memamerkan dirinya kepada sang ayah betapa ia mencintainya. Sang anak melompat. Cintaku sebesar lompatanku! Ayah melompat lebih tinggi. Anak tidak kehilangan akal ia membentangkan tangannya, eh ternyata tangan ayah lebih panjang juga. Begitu terus sampai malam menjelang dan sang anak selalu kalah. Akhirny...more
Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You (Candlewick, 1996)
Now this, on the other hand (q.v. Goodnight Moon review above) is the perfect piece of kidlit/prelit. It doesn't have that same classic cachet, being less than two decades old as I write this, but I think I've probably read this one as many times in the past sixteen years as I have Goodnight Moon in the past forty-three. It's simple, it's beautiful, it's a fantastic book to read to your kid(s), McBratney's word choices are spot-on every...more
Now this, on the other hand (q.v. Goodnight Moon review above) is the perfect piece of kidlit/prelit. It doesn't have that same classic cachet, being less than two decades old as I write this, but I think I've probably read this one as many times in the past sixteen years as I have Goodnight Moon in the past forty-three. It's simple, it's beautiful, it's a fantastic book to read to your kid(s), McBratney's word choices are spot-on every...more
This was my favorite book when I was little. It's about two nutbrown hares and the big one is trying tell the little one that he loves him more than the little one loves the big one.(They use their height!) Me and my mom love it so much we've read it almost a million times!!!!!!!!!
May 21, 2009
Shanna Gonzalez
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
children-04-08
A bedtime conversation between father and son, which echoes God's eternal love for His children. As Big Nutbrown Hare prepares Little Nutbrown Hare for bed, Little Nutbrown Hare initiates a contest of one-upmanship, in which each comes up with similes to express their love for the other. Little Nutbrown Hare falls asleep believing he has won with "I love you as far as the moon!" but Big Nutbrown Hare gently cradles him and lays him down, whispering, "I love you as far as the moon... and back."
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That's the most beautiful book for a young child that I know of. It perfectly expresses the mother's love. My mom always used to read this book to me, and it created a special bond between us. I highly recommend this book to any loving mother to read to their children. I love this book!
From Barnes & Noble
Little Nutbrown Hare is trying to tell Big Nutbrown Hare just how much he loves him, but each time Big Nutbrown Hare's love seems to be bigger. Indeed, there is no way to measure the love,...more
From Barnes & Noble
Little Nutbrown Hare is trying to tell Big Nutbrown Hare just how much he loves him, but each time Big Nutbrown Hare's love seems to be bigger. Indeed, there is no way to measure the love,...more
This was a book that shows that love can't be measured. It helps to teach our children that they are loved to no extent and that they will always have someone who is there for them. It is a good book that could be used when using a theme about family or feelings. The book does a good job of using soft tones for the illustrations and making the words very big on the page.
Lesson: I would try to do a lesson where I would have the children create a unique gift to give to their family to express the...more
Lesson: I would try to do a lesson where I would have the children create a unique gift to give to their family to express the...more
This may be my least favorite children's book that I've read to the kids. Even worse than the highly commercialized children's books devoid of any value which are made for nothing but the tie-ins to TV shows and toy sales. Guess How Much I Love You turns loving each other into a competition - and one where the child can never win against the parent. I like the idea of parent and child loving each other a lot, but this is so, so wrong of a way to communicate that theme. I found it unpleasant and...more
If you ever wonder how much your parents love you, then this is the PERFECT book! I have always loved this book and a book that I would want my children and the children in my classroom to read. I know that there will be children in our classroom and in our lives that will feel like there is no one who loves them. And I think as a teacher, we can show these children that we love them and in our classroom, they are safe. Also, it is a great book that says look at how much I love you and for the c...more
Esta é a edição brasileira, a portuguesa, intitulada "Adivinha o quanto eu gosto de ti" é de capa dura.
Nesta minha apreciação dou a nota quer como Mãe, quer como Filha. Acredito, e já o tenho dito a outras amigas com filhotes pequenos como o meu, que este livro deveria ser obrigatório na biblioteca de qualquer pequeno-leitor. Isto por 2 motivos: 1º porque acredito verdadeiramente que os leitores se fazem desde pequenos e que o incentivo dos pais (activo ou passivo - o ver-nos a ler é um grande i...more
Nesta minha apreciação dou a nota quer como Mãe, quer como Filha. Acredito, e já o tenho dito a outras amigas com filhotes pequenos como o meu, que este livro deveria ser obrigatório na biblioteca de qualquer pequeno-leitor. Isto por 2 motivos: 1º porque acredito verdadeiramente que os leitores se fazem desde pequenos e que o incentivo dos pais (activo ou passivo - o ver-nos a ler é um grande i...more
My mom would read this book to me when I was younger. Whenever I see it I think of my family. I really enjoyed this book, mostly because it's so adorable. I think every parent should read this book to their kids. It is definitely a mother-child book. Even today, I'll go around to people, extend my arms, and say "I love you THIS much!" I'll even try to extend my arms. I think this is a perfect book to express a mother's love, and I really think that it creates a special bond between the people re...more
The little hare tells his father how much he loves him. The father responds with an even larger amount of love. This pissing contest continues. It's cute, but it seems to me that the father could have not always outdone his son. Having grown up in such an environment, I look back and think that perhaps tenderness once in a while would do a boy well. It's not like you are letting the child win an undeserved game, it's an expression of love.
But the above is why I am not described as nurturing; I a...more
But the above is why I am not described as nurturing; I a...more
My mom,recently found this book in a box of my childhood books. I put it in the attic a few years ago, in order to make some room. She originally went up there to find a pair of old sneakers that had sold on amazon . ( We never found them) . Anyway she found the old box of books, pulled out Guess How Much I love you and read it to me from the attic steps while I was in my room . At first I thought why is she reading this? (i'm in my 20's now). Looking back on it, its a great funny, sweet memory....more
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The Northern Ireland native started writing children's books when he was a teacher in his thirties, with the aim of helping out students who had trouble reading. But he continued writing for a more-personal reason: "the act of imagining simply makes me feel good," he says. The fifty-seventh book of Sam McBratney's career, and his first book with Candlewick Press, was the much-loved GUESS HOW MUCH...more
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