What’s better than a cheerleading chicken?Īre you ever blue, unsure, tired, or overworked? Do you ever feel lost or overwhelmed? This uplifting book, expressed in delightful, jaunty verse, explains how to lift your spirits pronto: What you need is a booster chicken telling you’re doing great even when you’re not so confident, as when you’re learning or practicing a new skill, for instance. The text is unchanged, as are McGraw’s illustrations-which, what with the teen’s Walkman, the touch-tone phones, and the grown-up son’s preppy pullover, have not aged well-and the plot still follows its circular course to the final scene of the young dad rocking a baby who is, to judge from the lack of any visible or narrative evidence of female agency, stolen or adopted. Otherwise the special effects are confined to simple backing and forthing or small, often disjointed motions that add little except physical fragility to the art. Pop-ups take the creepiness of Munsch’s paean to helicopter parenting to a whole new level, as opening gatefolds cause the crawling white (apparently single) mother’s head to rise eerily over the edge of her 2-year-old’s bed and to peer through his door in the night when he’s a teenager. You are supposed to make up your own.The hugging and rocking back and forth become literal thanks to pull-tabs in this 3-D rendition of the 1986 classic. The way I sing it in the story is just MY version.
If lots of people send me their versions, I will not be able to put them all up, but I would like to hear them even if I can’t put them on the site. If you send me your version, either as a tape or an audio file or a MR3 file, I will try to put it up in the LOVE YOU page. I would like to put different versions of the song up on this site, now that the site has sound on it. So far it has sold about 15,000,000 copies.Įverybody makes up their own song for this book. In fact, it turned out that parents buy it for grandparents and grandparents buy it for parents and kids buy it for everybody and everybody buys it for kids.Īs a matter of fact, everybody buys it for everybody. This is supposed to be a children’s book. It is selling in retirement communities where kids are illegal. It is selling very well in retirement communities in Arizona. One day the publisher called up and said “This is very strange. My regular publisher felt that it was not really a kid’s book and I ended up doing it with another publisher. Out popped Love You Forever, pretty much the way it is in the book. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn’t sing.įor a long time it was just a song but one day, while telling stories at a big theatre at the University of Guelph, it occurred to me that I might be able to make a story around the song. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn’t even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried.
I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead.
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