SuitabookNo Matter What
Debi Gliori
- Reading
- Read it aloud slowly, enjoying the rhyme and repeating Large’s answers. Pause before or after the stars passage, and let the child decide whether to discuss it or continue with the story.
- Themes
- Love beyond behaviour and change: Small tests whether Large’s love remains through grumpiness, distance and imagined changes into other creatures. The repeated replies present enduring parental love as the answer to Small’s insecurity.
- Love, death and continuing light: Small asks whether love can wear out or what happens to it after death; Large answers through the continuing shine of starlight. The book presents this as imaginative reassurance about love continuing after death, while leaving the passage’s broader meaning open.
- Worth knowing
- Notice how the book handles reassurance: Large answers every hypothetical with enduring love, but the ending’s wider meaning and how each child may interpret the death-related image are not fully clear.