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This gorgeous picture book is for any child who's ever asked "can we stay longer?" Inviting comparisons to All the Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin, I Wish You More by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld, and Love by Matt de la Pena, this celebration of cherished moments with loved ones is at once simple, profound, and truly beautiful. "This contemplative, almost meditative, book makes for a good one-on-one lap-time read with the children in your life for whom you like to give your own time." —Kirkus Reviews "Forever or a Day is a timeless beauty." —Christian Robinson, New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator of Last Stop on Market StreeIn a poignant conversation, as elegant as a poem and as perfectly paced as a mystery, an unassuming narrator charts the course of a single day by interrogating the elastic nature of time through a series of questions and comparisons that reflect both a parent's and a child's perspective: Those seconds that count in catching the bus. The idyllic hours that slip by so quickly during a perfect day on the lake. The summer days that disappear into blissful happiness. Inviting comparisons to Virginia Lee Burton and Margaret Wise Brown, this book's musings on time are at once simple, peaceful, and profoundthe work of a truly genius picture book maker.