A shelf of I-love-you books to give a small child on Valentine's Day, from a heart-shaped board-book classic to a warm, grown-with-them keepsake. Pick one, wrap it, and know it's a sweet valentine on its own. The only thing you're really choosing between is age and mood: a giggle or a hug, a two-year-old or a seven-year-old. Every single one is gentle.
Choose by the child. It gathers the sweetest I-love-you books for little ones and spreads them across ages and moods. There's the thirty-year bedtime classic about loving someone all the way to the moon, a whimsical one where hearts rain from the sky, a giggly first-crush comedy for the child who thinks mush is gross, a warm story about a lonely man a whole neighborhood comes to love, a glowing poem about all the places love lives, and the tender go-to about a string of love that never breaks. Any one of them makes a lovely valentine on its own. Match a giggler to Splat, a toddler to the hares, and an older, thoughtful child to the two at the end.