Dear Mum I Love You

Dear Mum, Ever since I could walk, my favourite place in the whole wide world has been anywhere you are. I love you. Open the letters and lift the flaps to read all the loveable letters to these special mums! Join the animals and write a letter inside to your wonderful mum too!

Dear Mummy,I love you very much! Let me tell you when... Join two young children in this heartwarming story as they write a letter to Mummy sharing all the things they love about her. Written by Catherine Allison (Brown Paper Bear and Ssh! Don't Wake the Baby) and beautifully illustrated by Shelagh McNicholas, this enchanting story is perfect to share with Mummy. Features and envelope with card to create your own special message for Mummy.

If you could tell your mum anything, what would it be? Samuel Johnson, Amanda Keller, Vika and Linda Bull, Guy Pearce, Elizabeth Tan, Rebecca Gibney, Peter Helliar, Clare Wright, Hilde Hinton, Gillian O'Shaughnessy, Adam Spencer, Brooke Davis, Lawrence Mooney, Patti Newton, Shane Jacobson, Julie Koh, Susie Youssef, Lehmo, Favel Parrett, Matilda Brown and many more ... A heartfelt, honest and very human book of letters that will make you smile and make you cry. It is the perfect gift for the mum in your life. And a reminder to tell her how you feel before it is too late.

Shortlisted for the ABIA Award (Biography of the Year) 2015 A searingly honest memoir of family, cancer, love ... and unicycles by the founders of the Love your Sister charity, Connie and Samuel Johnson, that will inspire and they hope get people talking about boobs! Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel Johnson have always been close. Faced with the devastating news that they would soon be separated forever, they made a decision. After already surviving cancer twice in her young life, at 33 Connie was diagnosed with breast cancer. But this time it was a whole different ball game. This time she was told she will die, leaving behind her two sons. As a young mum faced with her own death, Connie wanted to make it all less meaningless, and she knew just the way to do it - send her brother, Sam, on a one-wheeled odyssey around Australia. The aims: to break the world record for the longest distance travelled on a unicycle. To raise $1 million for the Garvan Research Foundation. And, most importantly, to remind women to be breast aware and stop others having to say goodbye to those they love. Their message is simple: 'Don't fall into the booby trap.' Samuel has travelled through every state and ridden more than 150,000 kilometres to raise awareness and raise research dollars. But Connie had a secret fourth aim: to fix Samuel. And it worked. Sam cleared his diary, cleaned himself up and tenaciously kept his promise to his dying sister. For them the job isn't over. They are determined to raise more money for research. Connie vows to fight until her dying day and Sam says the fight will go on long after that. These two remarkable Australians share their tale, from childhood through to the finish line and beyond in this truly unique story. Part memoir, part travel diary, part conversation, Love your Sister is an inspiring and unforgettable story that shows just how far one man will go for his sister. The Johnsons' memoir is bracing and affecting. - Sunday Age, Sun Herald Part memoir, part diary, part conversation, this is an unforgettable story of how far a brother will go for his sister. - Brisbane News There are many joyous moments as brother and sister reflect, often wryly and honestly, on the power of their bond and the full catastrophe that is family life. - Sydney Morning Herald This book, like Connie and Samuel's lives, is much bigger than their experience of misfortune. - Canberra Times

When Katy Simmons packed all three of her daughters off to their grandmother's house for a few days during their school summer holidays in order to get some work done in peace and quiet, she expected to talk to them on the phone, she knew that her eldest would send her a text now and again, she was even thinking about getting granny to set up Skype - but she never expected them each to send her a letter. She realised that Granny was responsible. Letters are such old-fashioned things, after all ... or are they? Talking to her friends, she soon realised that writing to Mum wasn't such a rare occurrence for other kids who were away from home. Some were encouraged to do so at school and others even liked to leave notes around the house for their mothers to find. Of course, when embarking on the huge task of writing a letter, you don't waste too much time on trivia. Letters are for important stuff - and it's what the children who wrote the letters that are featured in this book found important that make them so fascinating to read.

Preview the whole book at http://gumdroppress.com/dearmum.html Show your mum how much you adore her with this unique and beautiful letter filled with sentiments of love and appreciation. Forty hand-crafted designs combine fully colourable words and gorgeous pen-and-ink-style garden images to provide hours of coloring fun, relaxation, and contemplation of the mother-child bond for you, your mum, or you both. Detailed but not tiny, the illustrations can be coloured even by younger hands or older eyes. This is a presentation-quality gift, with space for you to sign and personalize the letter on the back of the special matte cover. Measures 21.6 x 27.9 cm (8.5 x 11") when closed. Contains 40 illustrated pages that are blank on the reverse side. The full text of the colouring book letter reads as follows: Dear Mum, I love you. ~ If I had a flower for each time I thought of you ... ~ ... I could walk in my garden forever. ~ Take my hand now and walk with me. ~ Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. ~ Dear Mum, I love you ~ I believe in love at first sight because ... ~ ... I've been loving you since I opened my eyes. ~ It takes some one really brave to be a mother. ~ It takes someone really strong to raise a child. ~ It takes someone really special to love someone more than herself. ~ You are all of those things, mum. ~ No matter how many times we argue and how many times I don't understand you ... ~ ...I still think that you are the best and will always be the greatest mum in the world. ~ Your arms are always open when I need a hug. ~ Your heart understands when I need a friend. ~ Your gentle eyes are stern when I need a lesson. ~ Your strength and love have guided me and given me wings to fly. ~ Dear Mum: I love you. ~ I love you as the trees love water and sunshine. ! You help me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~ All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to you, my angel. ~ The more I grow, the more I realize ... ~ ... you are the best friend that I have ever had. ~ If I stop seeing you with the eyes of a child ... ~ I will see the woman who helped me give birth to myself. ~ Dear Mum, I love you. ~ Home is where your mum is. ~ Dear Mum, I love you. ~ A mother's heart is a patchwork of love. ~ The ribbons of your love are woven around my heart. ~ When I look at you, I am looking at the purest love I will ever know. ~ Mother's love grows by giving. ~ You love me even when I least deserve to be loved. ~ You forgive me all my faults ... not to mention one or two I don't even have. ~ Dear Mum, I love you. ~ Any woman can be a mother but it takes someone special to be called "Mum." ~ There is no replacement for you. ~ You are the best and will be the best forever.~ Dear Mum, I love you.

The first collection of poetry from Bunmi Laditan, bestselling author of Confessions of a Domestic Failure and creator of The Honest Toddler, capturing the honesty, rawness, sheer joy and total madness of motherhood. With the compassion and wit that have made her a social media sensation among mothers around the world, Bunmi Laditan puts into evocative and relatable words what so many of us feel but can’t quite express. For mothers who love their children with a fiery fierceness but know what it is to feel crushed at the end of those long days, Dear Mother is like a warm hug that says, “I get it.”