I Love You Because I Love You

Ages 4 to 8, Grades P to 3

Author Muợn Thị Văn and Stonewall Book Award–winning artist Jessica Love detail all the big and small reasons why we love the people we do within an affirming call-and-response format that features families across the spectrum. 

I love you because you tell the best stories.Because I love you, my best story is you.What are all the big and small reasons we love the people we do? And what does it look like when we voice it out loud?To be read aloud by one or even two people, this affirming call-and-response prose by Muợn Thị Văn and Jessica Love demonstrates that love is a dialogue. Love is complex. Love is utterly simple.This is what love looks like.

About the Author

Muợn Thị Văn stitches stories by starlight and by daylight. From her New York Times acclaimed debut, In a Village by the Sea, illustrated by April Chu, Muợn's books have received many distinctions, including a New York Public Library Best Book, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book, a Golden Kite Award, and an Irma Black Honor Award. Muợn’s best stories, though, are her three children; together they live and grow in California. You can find her at www.muonthivan.com.Jessica Love is an actor and artist with a degree in fine arts from the University of California Santa Cruz, and a degree in drama from the Juilliard School. Jessica's first book, Julián is a Mermaid, was published in 2018 and was the recipient of the Stonewall Book Award. Jessica lives with her sweetheart in upstate New York.