I Love You to the Moon and Back
I Love You to the Moon and Back Book Summary
This is a sweet story of a momma bear and her baby cub spending the whole day together and showing all the different ways they can show their love for one another. They show their love for one another by touching noses, playing chase, spending time with friends, and doing a lot of snuggling! It’s a heartwarming story to express how much the momma bear loves her little cub!
This story by Amelia Hepworth is perfect for any parent to share with their 2-5-year-old child. Children love animals, and the cute illustrations by Tim Warnes will delight him or her as the story pulls them into this imaginary world.
The book is a hardcover with glossy finish pages that can resist spills from your little one if wiped fairly quickly.
I Love You to the Moon and Back Story Characters
This bestselling story mostly focuses on the momma bear and her baby cub. However, there are a couple of pages where the bear family’s journey has them spending time with other forest friends. In this 28-page book, you’ll see illustrations of:
- Momma bear & cub, of course!
- Beige bunnies with white bellies
- Squirrels
- Chipmunks
- Owl
- And foxes too!
Amelia Hepworth, Author of I Love You to the Moon and Back
AMELIA HEPWORTH is the author of ‘I Love You to the Moon and Back’ and lives in London with her family and two dogs. When she is not writing stories, she enjoys spending time with her little boy and daydreaming in the garden.
Amelia was an editorial publisher for Little Tiger Press for a year and a half and eventually became an associate publisher from September 2019 to the present day.
Whilst at Little Tiger Amelia managed a creative team of six designers and editors. Her team produced high-quality books quickly and efficiently. Mostly on the Bespoke product for the US trade and UK special sales markets.
Amelia has had success in picture books, TV & film licensing, children’s books, and works in both fiction and non-fiction.
Some of Amelia Hepworth’s books include:
- I Love You to the Moon and Back
- How It Works: Tractor
- How It Works: Rocket
- What Are Unicorns Made Of?
Storyteller Tim Warnes, Illustrator of Love You to the Moon and Back
Tim Warnes has illustrated many children’s books
TIM WARNES is a British illustrator and a publisher/author of his own books. As a storyteller, Tim has been writing and illustrating kids’ books for 25 years. As such an accomplished artist, it’s no surprise that Amelia Hepworth would use his work in her own book.
Below is a video of Tim reading his book ‘Dangerous.’
Tim states “Don’t get lost in the world of Children’s Books. Let me guide you to the Good Stuff, so you can give your kids a great start to their reading journey.”
Some of the children’s books that Tim Warnes books have either written or contributed to via his illustration work include:
- Dangerous
- I’m Going to give you a Bear Hug
- A Littel Bit Worried
- Only You Can Be You
- I love You to the Moon and Back
You can visit Tim Warnes’s website at TimWarns.com.
I Love You to the Moon and Back Reviews
A fantastic book that tries to explain the unexplainable – the love a parent has for their child.
I like this book because it goes through what most babies/young toddlers do in a day. Spending time with the ones they love and goes on kind of a routine of the day that a child can pick up on. Since a child would be able to relate to this book they will really enjoy it as well as it being a special book for a parent to read to a child. An overall great read.
This book was given to my daughter when she was born and it continues to be one of my most favorite books to read to her. (I love catching her trying to read it to herself.)
Book Reading Video
If you’d like to see the book from cover to cover and hear an excellent reading of the story itself, watch this 4:51 short story by a YouTuber named Fatema Islam. The book is only 28 pages, so an actual reading of it would probably take around 2 minutes, but Fatema does a great job of not only reading it but making it fun for the viewer by pointing out highlights of the characters in the story. simulating her reading style will undoubtedly help your children get more out of the story.
Where to Buy ‘I Love You to the Moon and Back’’ & Product Details
Product details
- Lexile measure: AD460L
- Item Weight: 10.4 ounces
- Board book: 28 pages
- ISBN-10: 1589255518
- ISBN-13: 978-1589255517
- Dimensions : 6.44 x 0.63 x 6.63 inches
- Reading level: 2 – 5 years
- Publisher: Tiger Tales; Brdbk edition (March 3, 2015)
- Language: English
- Best Sellers Rank: #21 in Books
Book FAQs
What does it mean when someone says I love you to the moon and back?
There are many opinions on the meaning of the phrase, but the main intent appears to be fairly common in that the distance between the moon and the earth is very far. In fact, it’s a 476,000-mile round trip. The saying then indicates that if you love someone as much as the time it would take you to travel such a distance, then you’re expressing a strong affection for that other person.
Is I love you to the moon and back a quote?
The phrase didn’t come into existence as a quote, but it has become popular to the point where it is now used in many books and memes to where you could say it is a quote in the modern world.
The phrase was, for example, used in a popular children’s book ‘Guess How Much I Love You?’ by Sam McBratney, released in 1994. In that children’s book, the father rabbit tells his son that he loves him “to the moon and back,” reassuring him that he loves him so much that it can’t be contained.
When was I love you to the moon and back written?
The children’s book ‘I Love You to the Moon and Back’ by Amelia Hepworth and illustrated by Tim Warnes was published by Tiger Tales on March 3, 2015.
I love you to the moon and back origin?
It’s not exactly clear when the hyperbolic expression emerged, but a character delivers a form of it in Tom Topor’s 1979 play Nuts: “When I was a little girl, I used to say to her, ‘I love you to the moon and down again and around the world and back again.’ And she used to say to me, ‘I love you to the sun and down again and around the stars and back again.’”
I hope you enjoyed the Tales in Time viewpoint of the ‘I Love You to the Moon and Back’ children’s book by Amelia Hepworth. Books like these are not about how long they are but about how we can use imagery and storytelling to create a bond with our little ones that we love so much. I have no doubt you and your child will find this book delightful. If so, you may find some of our other short story blog posts of interest as well.
