I Love You Through and Through

I love your top side, your bottom side, your inside and outside. I love you through and through — yesterday, today, and tomorrow, too. I Love You Through and Through by Caroline Jayne Church is the perennial bestselling board book that has become one of the most beloved, most gifted, and most universally treasured declarations of unconditional love in children’s publishing — a rhyming story of a toddler and his teddy bear who love every single side of each other, from the happy side and the sad side to the silly side and the mad side, because real love is not just for the good moments but for every single one. Now in a new straight board book format with 24 beautifully illustrated pages, this is the perfect first book for babies and toddlers — and the book that parents, grandparents, and gift-givers have been reaching for, over and over again, for every baby shower, every newborn arrival, and every child who deserves to know they are loved through and through.

Book Details

• Title | I Love You Through and Through
• Illustrator | Caroline Jayne Church — the beloved illustrator behind Ten Tiny Toes, Good Night, I Love You, and I Will Love You Forever
• Publisher | Cartwheel Books / Scholastic
• Publication Date | December 2023 (new straight board book format edition)
• Format | Board book — 24 pages, 6 x 7½ inches
• Theme | Unconditional love for every side of a child — happy side, sad side, silly side, mad side, and all the sides in between
• Characters | A toddler and his teddy bear — illustrating the full emotional range of early childhood with warmth, charm, and complete acceptance
• Opening | “I love your hair and eyes, your giggles and cries…”
• Age Range | Ages 0–12 months through 3 years — a perfect first book from birth through toddlerhood
• Purpose | A declaration of adoration and affection that makes babies and toddlers feel loved all over, through and through

Why Kids and Parents Love It

• The through-and-through love story of I Love You Through and Through is the children’s book answer to the question every parent wants their child to understand from the very first day — that they are loved not only when they are happy and giggling and easy, but equally and completely when they are sad and crying and difficult and mad, a message so profoundly important and so perfectly expressed in Church’s rhyming text that parents read it and feel it as much as children hear it and absorb it, making this the rare board book that does emotional work for both the caregiver and the child at the same time
• The toddler-and-teddy-bear pairing gives the through-and-through love story a concrete, visual, child-centered expression that young children immediately understand and immediately connect with — a toddler who has a happy side and a sad side and a silly side and a mad side, just like every real toddler, loved completely through every single one of them by someone who sees all of those sides and chooses them all, in Caroline Jayne Church’s signature warm, round-cheeked, sweetly expressive illustration style that makes every feeling on every page look as genuinely, recognizably real as the feelings themselves
• The new straight board book format makes this edition of I Love You Through and Through the most durable, most baby-friendly, most read-a-thousand-times-ready version of a perennial classic — sturdy enough to survive every stage of early childhood enthusiasm, beautiful enough to gift with pride, and familiar enough from the generation of parents who grew up knowing this book to make it the automatic, instinctive, reach-for-it-first choice for every baby shower table and every newborn welcome bag that wants to include something genuinely meaningful

Perfect For

• Babies and toddlers from birth through age 3 who deserve to know — on their happy days, their sad days, their silly days, and their mad days — that they are loved through and through, yesterday, today, and tomorrow too — the Caroline Jayne Church perennial bestselling board book in a brand-new straight board book format, 24 pages, beautifully illustrated, and completely ready to be the most loved book on the shelf
• The perfect baby shower gift, newborn gift, first birthday gift, and nursery essential that has been the right answer for every one of those occasions for years — and the cornerstone of a complete Caroline Jayne Church collection alongside Ten Tiny Toes and I Will Love You Forever for families who want to give the gift of her complete world of warmth, love, and beautifully illustrated childhood
• Loving every side, celebrating every feeling, and knowing through and through that it is true — happy side by sad side, silly side by mad side — the most beloved, most universally gifted, most through-and-through perfect love story board book in the boutique