Author: Robert Munsch
Illustrator: Sheila McGraw
Awards: none
Grade level: 1st-4th grade
This is a very touching book about the life of a baby boy and his mother. At the beginning of the book, the boy is just a baby, and throughout the book, he continues to grow and grow until he is a young man. Each time the boy is talked about, the reader can tell how much he is growing and changing, and the book really makes the boy a relatable figure in the book. Towards the end, the boy is getting older, as well as the mother. She calls him one day and says that she is very sick, and the boy goes to visit his mother one last time. Throughout the story, the mother always sings her boy a song, but in the end, while the mother is in her son's arms, he sings her the song. The son then goes home at the end of a long day, and picks up his baby girl and sings the same song his mother always sang to him.
This book is very touching, and really shows the life of a mother and her son. It was very relatable because it described the boy at many different ages, and it definitely felt like real life. It was sad at the end when the mother passed, but I was happy at the end when he went home and sang the same song to his baby girl. I put the grade level at 1st-4th because I feel like the concept of the book would be hard to grasp for young kids. I would definitely have this book in my classroom, and I would have it in the classroom library so students could explore the book and read it on their own.
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