While No Matter What is a classic parent/child love story, it’s the last two pages (about love existing no matter what) which choke me up, night after night.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In this beautiful and lyrical picture book we see a clever and resourceful mother prove to her child that a parent’s love is limitless — no matter what! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In this delightfully optimistic and feel-good book, Fox and Porcupine discover that blue skies or grey, EVERYTHING is better when they're together. Small has a temper tantrum which overturns furniture and knocks paintings out of alignment, and when Large asks what's wrong, Small expresses worry that Large doesn't love Small at all.Small’ an anxious, grim and grumpy character who is feeling unloved is comforted by ‘Large’ that he is loved. Debi Gliori is the author/illustrator of many books for children including Mr Bear, the winner of the Children's Book Award. The spine of the book has a small tear and one of the corners on the back looks a bit like the print didn’t make it all the way to the edge. No matter what you look like, where you live or who your parents are, YOU are loved – just as you are! At first, he can't work out what the machine is for-it doesn't beep or buzz like all his other machines and it doesn't have an ON/OFF button.

The characters are “Large” and “Small,” so this book could be about grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, two moms, two dads, etc. Large shows Small the night sky, and explains that some of the stars died a long time ago, but they continue to glow and shine brightly.

Minor differences, for example, are in the books of Julia Donaldson (American snail asked "ride all over the world", British - "lift").