More and More

by Emma Dodd, Emma Dodd (Illustrator)

Overview

A little monkey learns that his parent loves him more and more every day.

The love between parent and child grows by the day, as one little monkey discovers in this gorgeous new story from Emma Dodd. Stunning illustrations of a monkey family and foil-embellished pages make this the perfect book for parent-child bonding at bedtime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763675431
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	08/26/2014
Series:	Emma Dodd's Love You Books
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Emma Dodd has created many books to critical acclaim. She works from a studio in Surrey, England. When not working, Emma and her family spend as much time as they can surfing and walking in all weather.

Editorial Reviews

The illustrations are bright and bold and include well-placed gold-foil accents. [This] sweet picture book feature[s] minimal text and playful tones. [It's] certain to find a happy home of shelves everywhere and would make [a] perfect cozy lap-sit stor[y].
—School Library Journal

The artwork is digitally rendered and imparts a very human visage to the little monkey’s face, hands and toes.
—Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

08/01/2014
PreS—In Always, a baby elephant explores opposites, from happy and sad to dirty and clean, ending with the reassuring message that no matter what, he will always be loved. Some pages have silver-foil accents; on one spread, both elephants are swimming in a silvery lake. In More and More, an expressive monkey's parent reassures him every little bit of him is loved, from "his nose to his toes" and his "wiggles to his giggles" and even his "messes and muddles." The illustrations are bright and bold and include well-placed gold-foil accents. Both of these sweet picture books feature minimal text and playful tones. They're certain to find a happy home of shelves everywhere and would make perfect cozy lap-sit stories.—Melisa Bailey, Harford County Library System, MD

School Library Journal

2014-06-25
A monkey parent expresses love for all the bits and pieces of a monkey child.The mother or father, not specified, reiterates how he or she loves every little thing about the child, every little activity, every little mood and emotion, every little game and every little range of behavior. This love is constant and everlasting and grows, until finally the ode concludes, "I love you more and more!" The repetitious text is mere fodder for the gold-foiled illustrations that feature parent and child in page-filling close-ups. The artwork is digitally rendered and imparts a very human visage to the little monkey's face, hands and toes. In a double-page spread that evokes Valentine's Day cards, the parent sits with arm around the child as their two tails entwine in a heart. In a companion title, Always, Dodd conveys her message of unconditional love through an elephant with similar moods and actions as the monkey. Even more foil embellishes the artwork in this volume, albeit this time in silver meant to evoke the African savanna. A similar cuddly finale finds elephant and child in a trunk-size embrace accompanied by the uber-reassuring "I always love you!" High on message and low on content. (Picture book. 2-5)

Kirkus Reviews