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No Matter What by Debi Gliori

No Matter What by Debi Gliori
Genre: Children’s Lap Board Book
Pages: 24 Giant Board Book 9 1/4 x 10 3/4
Date Published: January 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A classic story of unconditional love, now available in an oversize board book perfect for laptime.

Small is feeling grumpy and in need of some answers. Does Big really love Small…no matter what? What if Small is a squishy bug, a crocodile, or even just a grouch? Debi Gliori’s sweet prose and colorful illustrations remind us that a parent’s love is always there, no matter what, in this beautiful lap-sized board book with gold foil stars.

Read on December 08, 2011 — I own a copy

First let me tell you how absolutely in love with giant lap board books I am! This is a new discovery for me still and I am loving it. (First discovered them from Tommy Nelson and Liz Curtis Higgs‘s republished format of her Parables Series.) While reading this story is a bit reminiscent of Big and Little in Guess How Much I Love You, I enjoyed this one so much more.

Especially now as we have hit a bit of night time separation anxiety in my toddler reading about small’s worries and the reassurance provided by Large has become very valuable. A parent’s unconditional love for their child is often hard to explain and this story provides a great way to share that reassurance. I love when illustrator’s write their own children’s books and Debi Gliori has made a fan out of me. I will be looking for her other books.

*Thanks to HMH for providing a copy for review.*

Debi Gliori (born 1959) is a Scottish author and illustrator of children’s books. She grew up as an only child in Glasgow, and when young began drawing and writing stories. She started writing children’s books in 1976, and attended art school in Edinburgh from 1979 to 1984. She then received a travelling scholarship award to go to Milan, and worked as a freelance from 1984 onwards.

She is the author/illustrator of many books for children including Mr Bear, the winner of a Children’s Book Award. She is best known for her black comedy Pure Dead series for older children, which display strong elements of family lives amid dark and fantasy-based plots.

Debi Gliori has illustrated many beloved picture books, including Joyce Dunbar’s Tell Me Some-thing Happy Before I Go to Sleep and Tell Me What It’s Like to Be Big, along with her own No Matter What and Penguin Post. She lives near Edinburgh, Scotland.

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The Creative Madness Mama also known as Margaret is a Christian Stay-at-home Mama, married to the Enginerd, quilter, cross stitcher, avid reader and book-a-holic. As book blogger for various publicists, she loves to share the latest and greatest about books coming out as well as her needle art and other crafty projects with some pictures of her fourteen-year-old AppleBlossom, twelve-year-old OrangeBlossom (the Princess), nine-year-old Almond Blossom (the Rascal boy!), six-year-old (red) Mermaid Warrior, the four-and-a-half-year-old Viking Dragon, and Huckleberry (due in June 2024!) in between. Homeschooling, cloth diapering, breastfeeding, babywearing, bone broth brewing, tea drinking, list making mama full of a little creative and a lot of madness.

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