Mama Loves Me

by Mara Van Fleet, Claudine Gévry

In this delightful companion book to Caterpillar Spring, Butterfly Summer , a cute baby elephant shares his admiration for his mom's specialty talents - using her trunk (a colorful cloth-covered spring that runs through the pages) to reach up high, to play hide-and-seek with him, to give him a quick shower, and to cuddle and kiss him at goodnight.

12 pages, Board Book

First published December 27, 2005

Reviews

[Michelle Cepeda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review/Summary: This book is about a caring mother elephant who tries to help and play with her baby elephant. Mama helps the baby elephant reach high branches to eat, helps baby birds up high into a tree, gives baby elephant a shower using her trunk, plays hide-and-go-seek with baby elephant and it’s friends, and cuddles baby elephant to sleep all to show him how much she loves him. It's a good book for a mother to read to her child or baby at bed time or nap time.


Learning Extension: Mama helps baby elephant reach high branches to eat for lunch. Branches have leaves, so in class we could make a salad of just leafy greens like spinach, lettuce, etc. We would make the salad in class and have it for an afternoon snack, while discussing the different kinds of salads and nutritious food items. Possibly even a fruit salad instead.

[Adrianne Rosal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very cute and fun story!! The kids today at Dover enjoyed actually becoming elephants and interacting with the story.

[Sasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

a beautiful book to read to kids. that show them about love from a mother and caring.

[Mikayla Stringfellow · Rating 5 out of 5]

The toddlers in my class absolutely adore and cherish this book. Such a sweet book with a great message.

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is quite sweet and the trunk feature in the book was interesting.