Je T'aime de la Tete aux Pieds

 By Bernadette Rosetti-Shustak
Illustrated by Caroline Jayne Church

We like this book.  It's okay.  But it's corny.  It kind of rhymes, but kind of doesn't, and is generally geared towards the parents.  It's meant to explain all the ways that a parent loves a child, and not, as I had hoped, as a list of body parts or actions in French.  It does have one sentence per page, though, so it's right at the level that I need.  It's a great book for learning French.

There are only two pages that I can complain about:

I can't tell my child that I love her baby words.  First of all, she's a BIG GIRL, not a baby.  Secondly, don't you DARE suggest that she isn't pronouncing things properly.  And don't you dare so much as mimic her, either.  She's really touchy about her accent. 

Also, I don't feel as much love, at least in the moment, at times like these.  And my daughter reassures me that she never does anything like this, anyway, so neither of us feels like it's very representative.