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The Boy Who Loved Everyone
Jane Porter and Maisie Paradise Shearring
(Walker Books)
The Boy Who Loved Everyone
£7.99
Dimitri leans his head on Liam and tells him that he loves him. He says ‘I love you’ to the class guinea pig, the paintbrushes, Big Andrew and Little Bea.’ When he tells the old man on the park bench that he loves him, the old man snaps, ‘Who are you calling old?’
Although Dimitri tells everyone and everything that he loves them, no-one says it back. By the evening, he whispers, ‘I love you, Mum’. He doesn’t want to go to school the next day. Mum puts on his coat and wraps ‘him up warm.’ They watch the old man on the bench feed tuna to the cats. Mum explains how people have different ways of showing how they feel. She suggests ‘Your love spreads out and grows in new places.’
This is a beautifully researched and considered picture book. The pictures are naturalistic in their content and attitude. We travel along Dimitri’s day and see his school, tree, classroom and people as he sees them. There is such warmth and empathy in this story, and such joy in Dimitri’s delight in his world. I Love You ‘The Boy Who Loved Everyone’.
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