WHAT IS LOVE

WHAT IS LOVE by Mac Barnett

One more for the Valentine collection. This sweet picture book by Mac Barnett is not a lovey dovey sort of book. Instead, What is Love? is the question a boy asks his grandmother. The grandmother sends him into the world to ask people. He is given all kinds of answers that he cannot relate to that people describe as love. After a time he returns to home and family and learns what love truly is.

Water color illustrations by Carson Ellis fill the pages. Most pictures hold at least a bit of pink in them reminding us of the search for love. However, where there is life in that love for the boy, the pictures are full of greens and blues of growth and sky alongside the pinks.

ALONGSIDE ACTIVITY- It might be fun to have your child watercolor some of the colors or a scene from this book and have them write what love is to them. It can be fun to get a look behind your child's eyes and see what fills their "tank!" Don't direct this! Let it come naturally!