All for Love [Hardcover]

Tasha Tudor (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2000

What is love?

This rich and varied collection compiled by beloved artist Tasha Tudor explores the beauty of all kinds of love through a combination of poems, letters, songs, and stories. Each eloquent expression of love is interpreted in Tasha's exquisite watercolors, from the sincerity of Yeats's enduring love to the passion of Cathy in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. Also included is a charming section about Tasha Tudor's own family traditions on that very special day of love -- Valentine's Day. You'll find directions for making valentine bouquets, delicious cakes, and even unique decorative cards, as well as descriptions of holiday projects and events for the whole family.

Beautifully designed and lovingly illustrated, this distinctive treasury invites parents and children to explore together the meaning of love...every day of the year.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Love is my life, life is my love,
Love is my whole felicity,
Love is my sweet, sweet is my love,
I am in love, and love in me.

Love is in the air with this lovely, terribly romantic collection by beloved Caldecott Honor artist Tasha Tudor. Tudor gathers "some of the most wonderful and wise observations on love ever written, by some of the world's greatest romantics," including Michael Drayton, who penned the verse above. With poems, songs, stories, letters, love potions and charms, and excerpts from such luminous writers as Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Shakespeare, Emily Brontë, Robert Browning, Chien Wen-ti, Colette, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, All For Love is a celebration of the delicious pain and pleasure of love. Tudor's warm, old-fashioned, full-page watercolors accompany each ode to passion and tenderness. In addition to the literary excerpts, Tudor has included a section on her own family's Valentine's Day traditions, from heart-shaped cake recipes to Martha Stewartesque flowerpot cards to fun, meaningful projects for the whole family. No need to wait for Valentine's Day for this exquisite gem. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter

Review

On A Hand by Hilaire Belloc
Love To Faults Is Always Blind by William Blake
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 14 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Asolando: Summum Bonum by Robert Browning
Meeting At Night by Robert Browning
Song by Robert Browning
My Luv Is Like A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns
Winter Night by Ch'ien Wen Of Liang
Secret Love; Song by John Clare
All Things Great And Small by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Corner Of The Field by Frances Crofts Darwin Cornford
The Beautiful by William Henry Davies
Annie Laurie by William Douglas
A Shepherd's Garland, Sels. by Michael Drayton
For G. by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
No, No, The Utmost Share by Robert Herrick
Upon His Spaniel [spaniell] Tracie by Robert Herrick
A Morning Song [or, Matin Song, Or, Greeting To My Love] by Thomas Heywood
Song 15 by Samuel Hoffenstein
Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe
Renouncement by Alice Meynell
Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved by Thomas Moore
Do Not Smile To Yourself by Otomo Of Sakanoe
Thou Wast All That To Me, Love by Edgar Allan Poe
Service by Publius Terentius Afer
A Divine Rapture, Sels. by Francis Quarles
A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Good Sister by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The House Of Life: 19. Silent Noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Doubt Thou The Stars Are Fire by William Shakespeare
Feste's Song (1), Fr. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Love by William Shakespeare
Ophelia's Song (1) by William Shakespeare
Pastoral Lyric [or, The Pages' Song, Or, Song Sung In Arden (2)] by William Shakespeare
Sonnet: 18 by William Shakespeare
Willow, Willow [or, Desdemona's Song] by William Shakespeare
Come by Sara Teasdale
Ah My Dear Son by Anonymous
Alas, My Love, You Do Me Wrong by Anonymous
The Seeds Of Love by Anonymous
Inconsistent by Mark Van Doren
The Song Of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
White by Yori-kito
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing (February 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068982842X
• ISBN-13: 978-0689828423
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #410,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fine, illustrated, diverse collection celebrating love., May 9, 2000

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All for Love (Hardcover)

Tasha Tudor's All For Love provides a fine collection of letters, poems, songs and stories paired with her watercolors - all celebrating love. Adults will find this a fine keepsake album packed with Tudor's notable drawings.

5.0 out of 5 stars Tasha Tudor Treat, December 20, 2011

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Maureen Barnes "dulcimist" (Bloomington IL) - See all my reviews
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If Tasha Tudor's name in on the cover, there is a visual delight inside. This book is especially sweet and tender for those who find love the purest of all emotions.

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book, March 9, 2010

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Vickie H. Morrow - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All for Love (Hardcover)

What can I say? Tasha Tudor books are beautiful to look at with her lovely sketches and a pleasure to read too. I love all of Tasha's books. The book put me in a magical mood. She transports me to a quiet and gentle setting. I ordered this to have by Valentine's Day but was afraid I had waited to long. It arrived in time and completed my decorations.