What Love Is - A Fable for Our Times [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Carol Lynn Pearson (Author), Kathleen Peterson (Illustrator)

Book Description

6 X 7 1/2 In, 32 Pp, Full-Color Illustrations Throughout From The Team That Brought You "The Lesson", Author Carol Lynn Pearson and Illustrator Kathleen Peterson Present This Life-Long Love Story. It's A Story of Touch--Thousands of Touches Over A Lifetime Commitment To Be Together Forever. This Fable Is For Any Couple Who Has Faced The Rigorous Day-To-Day Challenges of Family Life--Magic-Marker Flowers On The New Wallpeper, The Sound of Earrings Going Bye-Bye Down The Toilet, Squeezing Nickles Until They Screamed--And Faced Them Hand In Hand. It's About Seeing Each Other Through The Tough Times As Well As The Fun Times With Constancy and Humor. It's About The Unfathomable Depth of Love.

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Following the classic fable tradition, author Carol Lynn Pearson and illustrator Kathleen Peterson present this lifelong love story--one that transcends the bonds of illness, age, unemployment, and more. As it poetically chronicles the stages of one couple's relationship and their ever-expanding knowledge of what it means to love, What Love Is becomes the blueprint for any relationship.

From the Back Cover

As she looked at him looking at her, his eyes were moist and his voice was soft as he promised to be true forever-- And she thought, "Now I know what love is."

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher; 1st edition (August 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879059184
• ISBN-13: 978-0879059187
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 6.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,688,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #29 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > Love Poems

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is great, heart felt and uplifting!, May 10, 2004

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W. Buxton "Wrapped Books" (Sparks, Nevada (USA)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: What Love Is - A Fable for Our Times (Hardcover)

I am saddened by the many harsh words written about this book. It seems people have forgotten the exhilaration and surprise that comes with each new event, or the romance and dreams that makes a relationship last.

I recalled a song I once heard. The song followed the relationship of two people from 'first touch' until death. Each step along the way brought a new realization of what love was. It was only at death that the true realization of love was fully felt.

When I saw and read the first few pages of "What Love Is: A Fable for Our Times by Carol Lynn Pearson, Kathleen B. Peterson (Illustrator)" I felt the same way that song had made me feel. And I wanted to share it with my wife. So I did. We have both enjoyed it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A moving, original fable, February 7, 2000

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This review is from: What Love Is - A Fable for Our Times (Hardcover)

WHAT LOVE IS is an original story and was not copied from another work. The poem referred to by the previous respondent is also called "What Love Is," and was written by Rae Ann Reichert. However, Rae Ann's poem deals with the loss of a child, while the book WHAT LOVE IS chronicles the life of a couple through good times and bad. It is a moving story certain to bring you to tears! I highly recommend it!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A simple, moving story, July 28, 2005

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Steven L. Benton "slb1" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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I, too, am saddened by the harsh reviews this lovely work has received. My father gave me this book after my mother passed away and it moved me to tears, primarily because it described so perfectly, in such beautiful, simple terms, their 47-year marriage. Perhaps only those who have shared, and then lost, a great love, along with those who knew them, can be touched by it. Far from being a jumble of ideas, the author captures a lifetime of love in only a few pages. The simple illustrations perfectly complement the prose.