I Will Love You Forever

When I saw you for the very first time, I was filled with joy that you were mine. I knew I would love you forever. I Will Love You Forever by Caroline Jayne Church is a tender, poignant, padded storybook that answers the most important question a child can ask — how long does a parent’s love last? — with the only answer that has ever been true: forever. From the mega bestselling illustrator behind I Love You Through and Through, Good Night, I Love You, and Ten Tiny Toes, this warmly illustrated, rhyming love story is a heartwarming reminder that whoever they become and wherever they go, they are cherished — an instant classic in the making, beautifully presented in a padded storybook format made to be treasured, shared, and returned to again and again across every year of childhood and far beyond.

Book Details

• Title | I Will Love You Forever
• Illustrator | Caroline Jayne Church — mega bestselling illustrator of I Love You Through and Through, Good Night, I Love You, and Ten Tiny Toes
• Publisher | Cartwheel Books / Scholastic
• Publication Date | August 2016
• Format | Padded storybook board book — 22 pages, 6¾ x 8 inches, padded cover for a keepsake-quality feel
• Theme | The forever, unconditional love between a parent and child — a tender reminder that wherever they go and whoever they become, they are cherished
• Text | Poignant rhyming text — emotionally resonant, beautifully paced, and written to be read aloud with love
• Age Range | Ages 3–5, Pre-K through Kindergarten — a step up in story and emotional depth, perfect for the child who is ready for a longer, richer love story
• Opening Lines | “When I saw you for the very first time, I was filled with joy that you were mine. I knew I would love you forever.”

Why Kids and Parents Love It

• The opening lines of I Will Love You Forever — “When I saw you for the very first time, I was filled with joy that you were mine. I knew I would love you forever” — are among the most quietly devastating words in children’s literature, the kind of sentence that parents read for the first time and feel in the chest before they finish it, because it puts into the simplest, most rhyming, most perfectly chosen words the feeling that every parent has had and never quite found the language for, making this book as much a gift for the caregiver reading it as it is for the child hearing it
• Caroline Jayne Church’s charming, warmly expressive illustrations give the forever-love story of I Will Love You Forever a visual warmth that matches every poignant line of its rhyming text — the same signature round-cheeked, sweetly expressive illustration style that has made her one of the most beloved and most recognized names in baby and toddler books worldwide, applied here to a story with more emotional depth, more narrative arc, and more of the quiet, profound tenderness that makes a book feel genuinely important rather than simply sweet
• The padded storybook format elevates I Will Love You Forever from a board book into a keepsake — a book with the tactile weight and the visual presence of something worth keeping, worth writing a name in, worth placing on a shelf where it will be read at bedtime for years and found again decades later with the same warmth and the same tears and the same knowledge that it was absolutely, perfectly, forever true from the very first page

Perfect For

• Children ages 3–5 and the parents, grandparents, and caregivers who love them — a Caroline Jayne Church padded storybook with poignant rhyming text, charming illustrations, and a forever-love message that is as true on the hundredth reading as it is on the first, from Cartwheel Books and the illustrator whose name is synonymous with the most beloved baby and toddler love stories in children’s publishing
• A perfect baby shower gift, newborn gift, first birthday gift, Mother’s Day gift, Father’s Day gift, and any-occasion keepsake for families who want a book that lasts — the ideal companion to Ten Tiny Toes for completing a Caroline Jayne Church collection that grows with the child from the earliest wiggling-and-giggling toddler days all the way through the preschool years and the forever years that follow
• Reading, feeling, remembering, and knowing it is forever — rhyme by illustration, first sight by forever love — the most poignant, most keepsake-worthy, most Caroline-Jayne-Church-tender forever love story in the boutique