Love You Forever

When I read the story behind the popular book, Love You Forever by Robert Munsch, I was floored.  On his website, he writes:

Love You Forever started as a song. 

“I’ll love you forever,
I’ll like you for always,
as long as I’m living
my baby you’ll be.” 

I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. The song was my song to my dead babies. 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. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn’t sing. 

For 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. 

Out popped Love You Forever, pretty much the way it is in the book.

God willing, we will someday read aloud Love You Forever to our children. When we read it, it will be for our children, both living and dead. As long as we are alive, Isabella will be our baby. A parent's love for their child is forever, even when the child is gone.