Love

By Lowell A. Siff and Lowell A. Siff

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807614262
• ISBN13: 9780807614266
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 3 years and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

A perfect gift

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.

Cruel and Touching

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...

I've been looking for "LOVE" - and I've finally found it!

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.

Simple, subtle, and it will stay with you.

I read this book in the bookstore. I mistook it to be a simple litte picture book for adults. When I read the last page, I was amazed with the effect it had on me. It has to be read to be appreciated. Outstanding

An adult book in a children's book package

I came upon this book quite on accident. I was touched almost to tears while browsing in my local bookstore. Reminds us that not so lovely people are lovable and worthy.