I love you like yellow

From the New York Times bestselling creators, author Andrea Beaty and illustrator Vashti Harrison, a sweet and playful bedtime and read-aloud picture book that reminds young readers just how loved they are.

I love you like yellow.

I love you like green.

Like flowery orchid

and sweet tangerine . . .

Love comes in many forms. It can feel tart as lemonade or sweet as sugar cookies. Slow as a lazy morning or fast as a relay race. Love is there through it all: the large and small moments, the good times and bad. And at the end of the day, love settles us down to bed with a hug and kiss goodnight.

With charming, rhyming text from Andrea Beaty and lush, heartwarming illustrations by Vashti Harrison, I Love You Like Yellow celebrates the unconditional love that pulses through life's profound and everyday moments--and the people who make them so special.

"This bear-hug of a picture book features . . . a true diversity of characters. Harrison brings a vibrant palette, loving care, and a tight focus to these tableaux; viewers are right there with the families, witnessing their moments together." -- The Horn Book Magazine

Author Notes

Andrea Beaty is the author of When Giants Come to Play; Iggy Peck, Architect; Doctor Ted; and the mid-grade novel Cicada Summer. As a kid, she spent her days being a detective, world explorer, movie star, and spy. Now, as a children's author, she spends her days pretty much the same way! Along with children's authors Julia Durango and Carolyn Crimi, she reviews funny books for kids at the website www.ThreeSillyChicks.com. Her title Rosie Revere, Engineer made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2013. She made the list again in 2016 with her title Ada Twist, Scientist.

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Beaty and Harrison pay tribute to unconditional love through seasons, weather, and times of day in this first-person ode. "I love you like yellow./ I love you like green./ Like flowery orchid/ and sweet tangerine," opens the text alongside companionable colored pencil and digital scenes of a child and adult walking in the rain. Other vignettes showcase loving relationships between peers, intergenerational pairs, and groups depicted with varying abilities, body types, and skin tones. Sometimes abstract, Beaty's analogies find a gentle partner in Harrison's narrative illustrations, which offer semi-literal interpretations. Love that's "like crunchy and crispy" is visualized by a trio eating popcorn, while "like stormy" love attends an image of a card game played during an urban rainstorm. As the examples build, a reassuring portrait of togetherness emerges. Ages 4--8. (Mar.)

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