Review Detail

Our Love

Kids Indie 402

Our Love is Bigger Than Any River

December 04, 2025 (Updated: June 12, 2026)

Overall rating

3.8

Plot

3.0

Characters

4.0

Writing Style

4.0

Illustrations/Photos (if applicable)

4.0

Showing animals and their babies against two page spreads of beautiful landscapes, a parent and child’s love is expressed in terms of the surroundings. Deer are shown near a river, koalas in a tree, and bears are shown eating berries with the phrase “our love is sweeter than any breakfast”. Kangaroos with flowers and giraffes with leaves round out the beginning of the book with comparisons before we see more animals and captions talking about what love can do; warm on the coldest of days, calm like a gentle summer breeze, and guide through long, dark times. Ending on the sentiment that “our love is everything because our love is everywhere” there is a two page spread that includes all of the animals previously represented.

Good Points

This is a very calm and reassuring book, with soft edged animals placed in gentle scenes of nature. Since the text is short, it would be a good choice for a bedtime story read while a child was snuggled up in one’s arms. There is an inherent interactive component as well; identifying the animals and talking about their activities would be a natural extension of the story.

There is no shortage of books about the strength of unconditional love, but these quiet illustrations offer a fresh take on an old tale and the book is a huge improvement on titles from parents’ own childhoods like the 1986 Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and Sheila McGraw. Add this to a comforting bedtime rotation that includes Hepworth and Tim Warnes’ I Love You to the Moon and Back, Rosenthal’s That’s Me Loving You, McBratney and Jeram’s You’re All My Favorites, and McCourt and Moore’s I Love You, Stinky Face .