Love [Hardcover]

Lowell A. Siff (Author), Gian Berto Vanni (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up

This charming book will delight—and touch—all readers.

Its sweet, heartbreaking story is told on pages of vibrant colors and uneven widths, pages with cut-outs and strip-ins, pages with peepholes—pages of all shapes and colorful varieties. This story is a simple one about a little girl. She has parents, naturally, but they went away when she was nine. And as she has no relatives to care for her, she is taken in by an orphanage. Lonely and a bit unusual, she stares at people with her big eyes. She often does things that aren't very nice, and people aren't very nice to her. In fact, they want to send her away. Until, one day...

Part story, part visual play, Love will surprise and enchant all who turn its pages.

Illustrated throughout

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About the Author

A painter and illustrator, Gian Berto Vanni is Professor of Art at The Cooper Union School of Art. His work has been exhibited in New York, Rome, Paris, and Tokyo, and he has published several children's books. Born in Rome, Vanni has also lived in Holland, Paris, and New York. He now divides his time between New York and Greece.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: George Braziller, Inc. (December 17, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807614262
• ISBN-13: 978-0807614266
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,136,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cruel and Touching, October 14, 2000

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"weegirl" (wee world) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love (Hardcover)

someone lend me this book, I thought it was just another "visually beautiful' book, until I started reading it and was totally engrossed in it, I cried when I read the last page, tears keep flowing down...amazing and magical how that few words touched me! It was a book that has little words and beautiful graphics, the story was told in an almost simple and straight forward way. The story about an orphan girl, who was abandoned by the parents at the age of nine, basically nobody like her and she was unattractive on the outside, doing many things that pissed people off..well I think she was trying to protect herself and distanced herself from people around her, it seems that she had given up hope on people, until the last page you realised that special thing that is always in her that she treasured and kept safe...it's like the whole world had let her down and she received no love at all from others, but she did not give up, she had hope and love in her, even though she was given none...I have no idea how to describe how the book touched me, it certainly touched me deeply, I wil never forget this wee girl...never ever...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect gift, March 14, 2001

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Amrita (boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love (Hardcover)

Touching and beautiful both visually and in its text. A special book that invites you to be a part of it as you flip through the pages of different shapes and colours.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I've been looking for "LOVE" - and I've finally found it!, February 22, 2000

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Tamsen (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Love (Hardcover)

My parents bought this book for me when I was a little girl, in the 1970s. It had a powerful effect on me. I felt that someone, at last, understood what *I* experienced - the feelings of abandonment, of not fitting in, of not being liked, and of not giving up despite all of that...

Aside from the emotional impact, it was a fun book to read, almost a three- dimensional puzzle. The pages come in different shapes, and have a variety of cut-outs. It's fantastic! I have read this book so many times, I had to tape most of the pages back together.

I have treasured my very well-worn copy of LOVE for decades, and I have searched the used-book stores for another copy. I never found anyone who had even heard of it.

I am so excited to find that LOVE is available again! I hope you'll enjoy the book as much as I have, and share the feelings of the little girl in the story. With the right attitude, it *is* an abundant universe.