12/17/2023 0 Comments I love you foreverI always assumed it was just the way she thought about him, a metaphor or something. And believe it or not, it never once crossed my mind that the mother was actually physically truly in real life going into that boy’s room. It was exactly what I thought parenthood should be! Ironically, it wasn’t until after I had children myself that I realized that this book didn’t necessarily have it right. I honestly thought it was the most beautiful sentiment I had ever seen. I sobbed like I’d never sobbed in my entire life. So, my first introduction to “Love You Forever” was when I was 20-ish and my church did a dramatic play of it. I had so many clips to choose from, but this is the one Allie showed me and I just loved remembering it. I’d forgotten how additionally funny I found the music for the trailer. Movie trailer for Murder on the Orient Express. The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs by Jack Gantos with the pitch perfect paperback cover some genius conjured up for this book. I take back everything I ever said about the one they did for The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Out this past September, so we’re timely!Ĭhildren’s Books Made Horrific – Love You Forever. Notice how they skip the whole middle section. įriends episode when Joey reads the book. Though I did like how Kate noticed that the bear here. The kitten desperate to flee this scene.Īnd the cycle continues. You want to know why mom’s dying at the end of the book? Between lifting this and her grown son, that’ll put you into an early grave, easy. The infamous Hitchcock moment with the ladder on car. Is this his wife? Or a friendly neighbor who gives the man his kitten? Considering that we only see one cat in the house, I’m inclined to believe it’s the latter case. “What’s wrong with his eyes? What did you do to his eyes?!”įerret Rat Cat is, essentially, a straight line rendered in cat form. Also, I missed how frightening that image on the wall is. This would be the upside down friend in sweater. She may not have been to sharp at kitties, but I can’t help but kind of love this image of the Ferret Rat Cat holding its ears. I think Kate would have had many words to say about what that bottle under his arm is, exactly. We didn’t notice the Walkman when we discussed when this takes place. Robert Munsch sings the definitive Love You Forever song. Listen to the whole show here on Soundcloud or download it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or your preferred method of podcast selection.Ī bottle of vodka or some kind of shampoo? You be the judge.Īs none of the felines in this book warrant names, we hereby dub this fellow Ferret Rat Cat. What will she think? Will she pull a Rainbow Fish on me and defend it? Will we see eye-to-eye on the matter? Will I bring up the book’s complicated backstory or let sleeping dogs lie? May also include the jazziest version of the Love You Forever song you’ll ever hear. Folks have requested this one since our inception and now, for your listening enjoyment, I have the honor of springing this book on someone who has never read it before. Now, those are 18 beautiful words worth remembering for always.That’s right! After a month of good but relatively obscure titles I’m declaring today Very Special Episode Day for the Fuse 8 n’ Kate podcast. So for the big boys, the baby girls and the little angels in heaven, this tune will remain forever true: In the same way, they will be loved forever, long after they’re gone. Just because they were taken to heaven early, doesn’t mean their parents’ love died along with their flesh. On the face of it, the story seems to be about a mom who who will never stop loving her son as big as he grows or as long as he lives, but really, it’s the same for stillborn babies and miscarriages. Yet in a sense, it’s all the same-perhaps that’s why this timeless tale has lived on. It’s amazing that this explanation coming out 30 years later can totally alter the meaning of this book. Out popped Love You Forever, pretty much the way it is in the book. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn’t sing.įor a long time it was just a song, but one day, while telling stories at a big theatre at the University of Guelph, it occurred to me that I might be able to make a story around the song. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn’t even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead.
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