Publisher's Synopsis
Love Is Ageless
There has never been a children's book for little ones whose moms are teens. Until now.
It Will Always Be You! is a children's book about a young mother's love for her child. During her senior year of high school, this dedicated mother chooses to put her child first ... while also setting a positive example by working hard to graduate from high school. Travel with them through classrooms and bath time, messy meals and trick-or-treating, trips to the park and precious moments of bedtime story time. See how one non-traditional family exhibits profound strength, love, resilience, and hope.
Written and illustrated by K-12 educators who have spent decades teaching pregnant and parenting students in the Jefferson County Public School District in Louisville, KY, It Will Always Be You! was inspired by America's real "teen moms" - the courageous young women who learn to study, live, love, work, and sacrifice in new ways during and after teen pregnancy.
"... a love letter to the children of young parents ..."
"It Will Always Be You! is a book for children whose unique families are rarely portrayed in children's stories. This book allows such children to finally be seen as much as they have been loved."
It Will Always Be You! was written for young parents to read with their children, to show that a unique family setting can have a happy ending. This book is a love letter to the children of young parents -- children whose initial years of life might look different from other kids whose parents are older, educated, working full-time, and/or married. Through their words and illustrations, Claudette Davis and Brooke Burhans O'Neil tell a story of profound strength, love, resilience, and hope.
Adorably illustrated and written with a sing-song lyrical style sure to engage babies, toddlers, and pre-schoolers, It Will Always Be You! was first published in 2015 as a unique gift to the graduating seniors from Davis and O'Neil's program. In late 2022, it was published to the mass market so that the millions of children with young parents could finally see themselves and their unique families (which often include grandparents and aunts and uncles -- all living and parenting together) in the books they find at libraries and stores.
It Will Always Be You! is narrated in the voice of the young mother, and the story is told to the child, who learns about what Mom is studying at school, what she does when she goes off to work at the mall, and how much she loves all the special moments with her child -- meal time, story time, holidays, and more. It Will Always Be You! inspires literacy and self-love for non-traditional families.
