If Animals Said I Love You (If Animals Kissed Good Night)

by Ann Whitford Paul (Author) David Walker (Illustrator)

If Animals Said I Love You (If Animals Kissed Good Night)

Don't miss the other books in this adorable series: If Animals Kissed Good Night, If Animals Celebrated Christmas, If Animals Went to School, and If Animals Gave Thanks!

What if animals did what YOU do?

This delightful story, the follow-up to If Animals Kissed Good Night, imagines how animals would say "I love you!" If animals said "I love you" like we do...how would they say it? Ostrich would boom it with wings spread wide. Impala would speak with a leapity-leap. Gorilla would add a loud chest, slap-slap. And across the animal kingdom, every creature would show love in a unique way.

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Kirkus

Surely adult and child pairs reading this together will find ways to mimic the animals’ ways of expressing their love: blowing bubbles and splashing in the tub, a boa-like “squish-hugging squeeze,” and playful wrestling. 

School Library Journal

PreS--Full of loving and silly animal relationships, this second collaboration between Paul and Walker is comforting but also predictable. Each animal pair shows their love in active ways, like the lion cousins who "tussle and tumble, romp and roll in a joyful love jumble," or an impala grandma who speaks with a "leapity-leap." Walker's illustrations are soft, rounded, pastel renderings of the different kinds of love between parents, siblings, and friends. Paul's rhyme scheme has pleasing onomatopoeia moments and includes an array of unusual animals, such as a "click-clack"ing secretary bird. VERDICT This animal lovefest will appeal to fans of If Animals Kissed Goodnight, but readers looking for uniqueness or inclusiveness should look elsewhere.--Jenna Boles, Greene County Public Library, Beavercreek, OH

Copyright 2018 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Review quotes

"Full of loving and silly animal relationships. . .This animal lovefest will appeal to fans of If Animals Kissed Goodnight." —School Library Journal
Ann Whitford Paul
Ann Whitford Paul and David Walker collaborate on the If Animals series, including If Animals Kissed Good Night, which School Library Journal calls "charming"; If Animals Went to School; and If Animals Celebrated Christmas. Ann lives in Los Angeles, California. David lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374306021
Lexile Measure
630
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Publication date
October 17, 2017
Series
If Animals Kissed Good Night
BISAC categories
JUV039050 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
JUV013000 - Juvenile Fiction | Family | General
JUV002000 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | General
JUV026000 - Juvenile Fiction | Love & Romance
Library of Congress categories
Animals
Stories in rhyme
Families
Love
Habits and behavior

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