I Love You Through and Through

Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak. Cartwheel Books, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-439-67363-1

With a spongy paper-over-board cover and board book pages, I Love You Through and Through by Rossetti-Shustak, illus. by Caroline Jayne Church, takes an unseen adult's perspective as he or she tells the spiky-haired blond boy pictured with his teddy bear all the things about him that are lovable: ""I love your top side. I love your bottom side. I love your inside and outside."" .

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