My Love for You

This lovely and lyrical board book reassures a child that although all things change or come to an end (a sandcastle falls with a wave, a seagull steals a cracker), a parent’s love lasts forever.

Today, let’s soak up summertime
before it turns to fall.
Gather sand and pack it tight
to build a castle wall.

A wave! Our fortress topples down,
becoming something new.
Everything is bound to change…
except my love for you.

A sandcastle falls with a wave, a seagull swoops down for a precious cracker, a looming thunderstorm means beach time is over, and summer draws to a close. Although most everything changes or comes to an end, a parent’s love never does. It endures and reassures no matter what.

Lisa Varchol Perron writes picture books, middle grade novels, and poetry for children. Her poems have appeared in children’s magazines, online poetry journals, and anthologies, and she earned the 2021 Boston Authors Club Discovery Award for picture book writers. She lives outside of Boston with her geologist husband and two book-loving kids.

Sheryl Murray is an illustrator who grew up drawing on everything, including her brother. She now lives in Portland, Oregon.