Guess How Much I Love You

Outline

Guess How Much I Love You (1994) is a tender bedtime story about Little Nutbrown Hare, who tries to show Big Nutbrown Hare how much he loves him by stretching his arms wide and hopping as high as he can. Each time, Big Nutbrown Hare finds a way to show that his love is even bigger. Sam McBratney’s classic, illustrated by Anita Jeram, has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.

• Little Nutbrown Hare tries to show his love by stretching his arms wide and hopping as high as he can.
• Big Nutbrown Hare answers every gesture by finding a way to show his love is even bigger.
• The story is built as a gentle back-and-forth between a child and a parent, which suits bedtime.
• Love between parent and child is shown as something too big for either of them to measure.
• The book was published in 1994, illustrated by Anita Jeram, and has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide.

Sam McBratney (1943–2020) was a Northern Irish author and former teacher who wrote more than fifty books for children. He is best known for Guess How Much I Love You, which has been translated into more than fifty languages and became one of the best-selling picture books of all time. His stories are known for their warmth, simplicity, and gentle humour.