You're All My Favourites

Another beautiful production from the 'Guess how much I love you' team - gentle green text on good quality cream paper echoing the soft green and brown shades of the watercolour illustrations. Father and Mother bear have three much-loved little bears, who have their doubts nonetheless. 'Who is your favourite? We can't all be the best' they ask. Each one is answered reasuringly - 'patches or no patches... girl or boy; it makes no difference. Three favourites. You're all my favourites.' A fine blend of gentleness and strength shines through both the expressive, unsentimental illustration and the clear well-paced text. The parents, laid back (literally!) and calm, know just what they're about: unfussy, affirming, embracing; their offspring have the security to explore, to ask, to wonder, safe in the knowledge that they are held in their parents' thoughts, much as the illustrations hold the text. Useful for the gentle appreciation of individual difference in larger families, and affirming for all.