Love Hugs
A hand-illustrated picture book that gives young children their first words for something bigger than themselves.
No doctrine. No gatekeeping.
Just love — the one thing every family already believes in.
Love Hugs is a children’s book about the biggest kind of love — the kind that holds a child long before they have words for it.
Love Hugs
What it's about
Children ask enormous questions. Who made the sky. What happens when we're apart. Whether something is out there, watching over them.
Love Hugs doesn't answer all of that. It starts where a child already lives — in the feeling of being held — and gently widens it outward, until love isn't just what comes from a parent's arms but something much bigger and always there.
It's a book for the child who's beginning to wonder, and for the grown-up who wants to open that door without closing any others. No doctrine, no gatekeeping. Just love, offered with open hands.
32 pages - Hand-illustrated in full color · Ages [2–6]
Price includes shipping and handling.
Purchase Love Hugs as a donation. Note where you’d like it to go in the message section at check out, or I’ll choose a local organization to donate it to. Donations will be shipped 10/16.
Is Love Hugs a fit for your family?
Life can feel big and overwhelming for children. During those moments, it helps to have a simple way to pause, breathe, and reconnect with a sense of comfort and support.
This book introduces one way to do that.
The word love was chosen carefully. People describe the source of love, comfort, and connection in many different ways. Some call it God. Some call it the Universe. Some call it Spirit. Some call it Energy. Some call it something else entirely. Whatever words your family uses, I hope this book creates space for meaningful conversations and helps children discover a sense of support that is always available to them.
The simple practice shared in these pages can be used during difficult moments, at bedtime, when expressing gratitude, or whenever a child needs a quiet moment to reconnect with themselves.
My hope is that every child who reads this story comes away with the comforting reminder that they are never truly alone.
Meet the Author
For as long as she can remember, Abby has been drawn to the big, quiet questions, the kind that often arrive first in childhood and never fully leave us. Her own spiritual path has taught her that stillness, curiosity, and kindness are things we can practice at any age. She wrote this book for her two young daughters, hoping to share the way she connects with Love, not as an expert with all the answers, but as a mother learning alongside her children. It is an invitation for young readers to wonder about who they are and how they belong to the world around them.
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