All for Love
Love is my life, life is my love,Love is my whole felicity,Love is my sweet, sweet is my love,I am in love, and love in me.Love is in the air with this lovely, terribly romantic collection by beloved  Caldecott Honor artist Tasha Tudor. Tudor gathers "some of the most wonderful  and wise observations on love ever written, by some of the world's greatest  romantics," including Michael Drayton, who penned the verse above. With poems,  songs, stories, letters, love potions and charms, and excerpts from such  luminous writers as Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Shakespeare, Emily  Brontë, Robert Browning, Chien Wen-ti, Colette, and Ralph Waldo Emerson,All For Loveis a celebration of the delicious pain and pleasure of love.  Tudor's warm, old-fashioned, full-page watercolors accompany each ode to passion  and tenderness. In addition to the literary excerpts, Tudor has included a  section on her own family's Valentine's Day traditions, from heart-shaped cake  recipes to Martha Stewartesque flowerpot cards to fun, meaningful projects for  the whole family. No need to wait for Valentine's Day for this exquisite gem.  (All ages)--Emilie Coulter