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If I could by Susan Milord; Christopher ill Denise is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><P>"If I could, I’d swim the deep in search of treasures for you to keep."<P>From the first rays of the morning sun to the last nod of a tiny head at bedtime, a toddler and mother share a blissfully ordinary day. But there is nothing ordinary about the love between them — a love that is as bright as flowers, as lovely as a song, as comforting as stars, and as deep as the ocean.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>A raccoon mother shepherds her toddler son through his daily routine, all the while expounding upon how she'd like to make the world even more wonderful for her beloved child. Although it may seem cantankerous to hold maternal sentiments to the highest standards of logic, some of this mother's musings seem off-kilter: If I could, I'd rouse the sun/and make it shine/ till day is done, she declares-but the sun already does that anyway without Mom. It's a good thing, then, that Denise's (illustrator of the Redwall picture books) acrylic-and-charcoal vignettes possess such emotional vividness; they're a warm, more traditional relative of the work of Lynn Munsinger. Any quibbles with the text soon fade in the face of scenes like the one in which the moth
Who reads If I could?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Susan Milord; Christopher ill Denise
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780763623487
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Children'S, Short Stories, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (56 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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