Why Do You Love Me?

This is a children's picture book that is about a young boy named Sammy. He is being tucked in by his mother and he asks her why she loves him. He asks if it's because he was nice to his brother, or because he won his race. She then tells him that she loves him but not because of those things. He

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asks if she still loves him even when he misbehaves like when he yelled at her. She reassures him that she will love him no matter what, that her love is "like the sun in the sky. It is always there." She tells him it is okay for him to feel angry or hurt and he doesn't feel like he loves his mom and that "love is like the sun." It is always shining even when he can't see it. This is a great book to start discussions about what is means to have unconditional love and what it means to love someone no matter what. It can also be utilized to talk about feelings and emotions and that it's okay to feel the way they are feeling. The illustrations in the book are drawn and they have a lot of color and the shading is done with cross hatching and it makes the images a little on the busy side but they are cute and simple and hold the reader's attention. Teachers can use this book in their classroom and then have older students discuss a time when they felt like they had a hard time loving someone. For younger students have them focus on the simile that love is like the sun and have them draw a picture of their parents or someone they love a lot and a sun in the sky to remind them of the book.

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