The moral of this story is that you don't have to win a gold medal for your mother to love you. Good for a story time because the kids can repeat the refrain and it'll remind parents to tell their kids they love them. ( )

Genre
Australian fiction
Picture books for children
Tone
Feel-good
Location
Australia
Subject
Attention-seeking
Attention-seeking in children
Busy mothers
Busy parents
Competition
Koalas
Maternal love
Mother and child

I would read this to my class if we were having a field day or type of competition so the students understand it is ok not to come in first place ( )

Koala Lou is told by her mother "Koala Lou, I DO love you!" hundreds of times daily. Her mother begins to have a busy life and has other koala babies to take care of. Koala Lou does not think she is loved by her mother anymore. She joins the Bush Olympics thinking if she wins she will earn back her mother's love. She comes in second, and is heartbroken. Her Mother comes and says "Koala Lou, I DO love you! I always have, and I always will". This book teaches about unconditional love and tells children that sometimes parent become busy, but that does not mean they do not love you. ( )

A young koala, longing to hear her mother speak lovingly to her as she did before other children came along, plants to win her distracted parent's attention.