Kids Books About Love

To love someone means to care about them, to want to be with them and to share with them. You want your life to include them and you care about what they think and feel. When you love someone, you put in extra effort to do things for them and care for them because they mean so much to you.

Most of the time we love people in our families and our close friends, but we can also be loving towards others that we don’t know well or know at all by being polite, friendly, welcoming, and thoughtful.

The golden rule is all about love – “Treat others as you would want to be treated” and in the Bible, Jesus’ new commandment was to “love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” John 13:34.

The world revolves around love – love for others, for our planet, for ourselves. It would be a sad world without love, and we would be very lonely.

Some Valentine’s Traditions

With Valentine’s Day almost here, I’ve put in my annual order for 4×6 prints from my phone. When I was little, I loved pouring over the family photo albums my mom and grandma put together after they developed the rolls of film. I realized a few years ago, now that everything is digital, I wasn’t really putting the effort into giving my kids some tangible photos to look through at their leisure. So I decided I would get some printed. To remember to do it, I’ve bundled the tradition with Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s Day, I give my kids an envelope of prints. We spend some time looking at photos of the past year together as a family and sliding them into the photo album pockets.

Another tradition I do each year is a put little notes on my kids bedroom doors every morning in February. I write out the things I love about them as a sort of advent. I’ll admit with the renovations this year, it did slip my mind until today, but better late than never…I’ve still got 6 days worth of compliments. My daughter in kindergarten is now learning to read, so I’m excited for her to read her special message each morning. To make it easy on myself, I prepare all the notes ahead of time so all I have to do in the mornings is stick the notes to their doors.

As a homeschool family, we don’t do all the little gift bags the public school kids seem to do for every kid in their class. Oof that sounds like a lot? But I do want my kids to honor the love they have for each other and think of their sibling on Valentine’s Day, so I take them chocolate shopping. We go to a fancy chocolate shop like See’s, Purdy’s, or Laura Secord, and we choose a few chocolates not for ourselves, but for one another.

I love our Valentine’s Day traditions – they are easy, inexpensive, low-stress, but a little bit “extra” ways to show each other how much we care.

If you’re looking for some kids books to complement this loving holiday but that can be read all year round, without further ado…

Kids Books About Love

The books I suggest in my blog are always high-quality excellent stories. I choose books that have a plot, characters, and teach about a virtue through story – not in a top-down “let me teach you about ____, children”. I choose books that have big ideas to wrestle with, that tug at your heartstrings, or make you consider a different perspective. These books feature loving characters, or feature love as a theme woven through the story. I hope you enjoy them!

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and Sheila McGraw

A quintessential story for every family, I am particularly partial to this one because Robert Munsch is Canadian. My mom read this story to me, and now I read it to my kids. It tells the story of how a mother’s love for her child is never-ending.

The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn, Ruth E. Harper, and Nancy M. Leak

This is a great story for any child with separation anxiety – the raccoon mom gave her baby a kiss on his hand before he goes away to school so that anytime the baby raccoon misses his mom, he could put his hand to his face and feel his mom’s love.

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

This is another story that speaks of a parent’s unending love for their child. When Sylvester the horse is turned into a stone, his parents never stop thinking about him and wishing he could come back to them. Their love for him brings him back to being a horse.

Alone – in Frog and Toad Storybook Treasury by Arnold Lobel

In Alone, Toad heads to an island with a picnic lunch to cheer up his best friend, Frog, who wants to be alone. They sit alone together. The love and understanding between these two friends is beautiful and I hope each one of us has a Toad to our Frog.

Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow

In this story, a little girl is trying to decide what to get her mother as a gift. She really considers what her mother would like and comes up with a very nice gift to show her love.

I hope you enjoy these books as much as we do!

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Warmly,

-Heather