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|date=February 2007
|isbn=978-0007184064
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Mandy Stanley does nice pictures: simple, colourful, in a typical 'modern for children' style; boldly drawn and with a cut out quality that might have originally started with Matisse some 574 generations of illustrations ago. This kind of style appeals to many children and I dare say would appeal to many parents, especially those that dislike super-naturalistic and often very saccharine old fashioned illustrations. There isn't much magic nor much detail to explore, but they are easy on the eye and on the brain too, without being exactly boring.
I also have no idea why, if the concept behind the book is to show different kinds of love, is the author using animals in realistic settings? It would make much more sense to have either real human characters or animal fable with animals-as-people. After all, love is mostly a human concept and saying that "fish loves the boy who feeds her" doesn't really further understanding of love or fish or boys.
As you can probably gather, I didn't like ''Who Do You Love?''. It seems like an attempt to extend a series started with [[''What Do You Say?]] '' and [[''What Do You Do?]] '' while tying in with the approaching Valentine's Day (which is a celebration of romantic and sexual human love and thus doesn't apply to little children, ants or fish); but it's too much of a hotchpotch, with neither relevance nor fantastic imagination.
It is pink and pretty though.
