Such an open display of affection, in Love You Forever, is not everyone’s “cup of tea.” Also, sometimes personal experiences can be intrusive in our reading interpretations. I am an overly affectionate individual (I “hugga-lot”). Our background, personality and other reading experiences are always part of our reading experience. What one gets out of books can be directly related to what we bring to them as readers. My only comment is as follows: let us not forget that although we often think of reading in static terms – (the art form is has been described as linear)- it is in fact a dynamic medium. Dian Maureen Borek: Hi!I would like to go on record as one of those sentimental types that love Love You Forever.These email exchanges on the listserv occured in March & April of 1995.Īll rights reserved for individual contributors. The discussion thread was archived by me with permission of online publication from all participants at the time for my original Fairrosa Cyber Library site which is slowly migrating to here. Which reminded me that we had a heated discussion on Child_lit years ago on another Love or Hate book: LOVE YOU FOREVER by Robert Munsch. A recent NYT article about THE GIVING TREE sparked much online discussion in the children’s literature world.
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