Have you ever known a child who doesn’t occasionally whine? Or hit, or forget to say please, or refuse to share, or interrupt, or throw a tantrum, or ask for every toy in the store? We may like to pretend otherwise, but these are things small children do . . . and we continue to love them even when they misbehave.
This amusing catalog of bad behaviors is playfully illustrated in warm watercolors. Together, text and art present funny and familiar scenes that grownups and children everywhere will recognize and want to talk about. Love You When You Whine is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
Emily Jenkins is the author of many books for children, including the recent picture books Tiger and Badger, illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay, and Princessland, illustrated by Yoko Tanaka. Her chapter books include the Toys series, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky; she is co-author of the Upside-down Magic series. Emily Jenkins lives in New York City.
Jenkins has a fresh take on children that I love. This is great for kids and parents to be reminded of, since we are all guilty of a fair few of these less than charming attributes. Refreshingly unsentimental.
Unrelenting. Long list of absolutely atrocious behaviors with a very brief happy ending. Ugly pictures. I'm worn out just reading it, and my kids are old enough to give me grandchildren (after reading this, I'm sorta glad they haven't!). Kids might laugh, and might feel good about themselves for not being as bad as this child.
This book has a monster parent tell their little monster child that they love them - even though the monster child spends its time doing things like whining, making messes, destroying things and being rude. (To be fair, I am not sure if the main character is supposed to be a monster or a cat of some sort.)
This has always been a family favorite in my family and a good reminder to kids that their parents love them even when they are whiney or even when they are bad that their parents still love them.
A book that reassures kiddos that even when they are being so overwhelmingly toddlery and whining and testing limits and boundaries that their family will love them unconditionally.
I thought this was a wonderful book, as did my kids. I believe we read it every night at bedtime for the two weeks we had it on loan from the library. It was amazing to see the lightbulbs come on in their little minds when we got to the page "I love you even when you say that you don't love me." The message of the story was not lost on them in any way. I will absolutely be adding this to our home library!
I was hoping there would be some redeeming quality or good message but all it really did was lay out a bunch of suggestions for how your kid could be bratty in different ways. The moral of the story is that the parent always loves the kid, but the message was really more for the parent than the kid, I think. My pet peeve is books written for children that don't teach good behavior, and this one falls into that category.
I didn't like this one as it seemed to emphasize all types of bad behavior, but offered no counterpoint. I get the basic premise, but think the end result would probably give kids new ways to misbehave!
While I appreciate the sentiment I couldn't like this book. It doesn't feel like a story, and I worry that my children might one day try some of the naughty behaviors because they saw it here. We will not read it again.
This book is intended for younger children. It reassures them that they are loved even when they misbehave. Appropriately, the unruly child is depicted as a little monster. Minimal text on each page, and most of the meaning is derived from the detailed pictures.
This book was obviously written for adults to enjoy and actually not read to their children. Kids wouldn't get it, as they are typically the whiners. Great illustrations of a very disgruntled momma.