I love you when you are happy. I love you when you are sad.
I love you because you are you.
Awarded #1 Best Children’s Book in the Annual Critters Readers Poll.
A simple children’s picture about unconditional love. A positive book with a happy, colorful little creature made for smiles. For baby and up.
Written and illustrated by Rosalind Barden
Awarded #1 Best Children’s Book in the 2025 Annual Critters Readers Poll.
I Love You is available as an eBook, paperback, or hardcover:
Amazon US, BAM Books-A-Million, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Watermark Books and Café KS, Vorman’s Bookstore Pasadena
International:
Amazon AU, Amazon CA, Amazon DE, Amazon UK, Thalia DE
I Love You is a perfect gift for baby showers, adoptions, new foster children, blended families, grandchildren, and nieces and nephews. It’s also an adorable gift for birthdays, family get-togethers, Valentine’s Day, Christmas, and Hanukkah.
If you’re too shy to say the words, let this heartfelt little book say them for you. Give this book to you, because we all need a little love.
This book is for anyone of any age who needs comfort and reassurance.
Written and illustrated for you by me when AI wasn’t looking!
I Love You is a return to my roots as a children’s book author and illustrator.
Creating I Love You was a two-year+ plus journey of dreaming, tinkering, rewriting, and drawing. Ultimately, I found that simplifying and simplifying some more was the best way to say what I was feeling. I drew many characters until this colorful little buddy made me stop and smile. Then I knew this was the character! I call this character Rainbow Sprinkles because it leaves a rainbow of smiles.
I hope you enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed creating it. It’s a perfect gift book (even to yourself)!
