What is Love? by Etan Boritzer

‘What is Love?’ unravels the common thread that bind us all—our shared needs and the universal quest for love. Through the pages of this book, Boritzer seamlessly weaves a message of multiculturalism and diversity, emphasizing these as bridges that lead us to a place of understanding and tolerance.

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What Is Love? by Etan Boritzer

What does love mean, and how can we show it to others? In What Is Love?, children’s author Etan Boritzer invites young readers to explore one of life’s most important feelings: the need to love and be loved.

With a sincere yet playful approach, this thoughtful book encourages children to consider what connects us as human beings. Although people may come from different cultures, backgrounds, and traditions, we all share many of the same hopes, feelings, and needs—including the desire to feel loved, understood, and cared for.

Discovering the Many Ways We Share Love

Love can be expressed through kindness, caring, understanding, and goodwill. By exploring this universal human experience, What Is Love? encourages children to think about how they treat others and how they can help people feel valued and accepted.

The book also celebrates multiculturalism and diversity, helping children recognize that appreciating our differences can bring us closer together. Its message encourages empathy, mutual respect, and a spirit of inclusion—important foundations for building friendships and peaceful communities.

A Heartwarming Book for Families and Educators

What Is Love? offers a wonderful starting point for conversations about feelings, relationships, kindness, and our shared humanity. Parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers can read it with children and use its themes to explore what love looks like in everyday life.

It’s a thoughtful choice for homes, classrooms, libraries, and children’s programs that encourage social-emotional learning, cultural understanding, and respect for others.

Whether you’re helping a child understand their feelings or teaching the importance of caring for people from different backgrounds, this book offers a gentle reminder that love and goodwill can help us recognize the connections we share.

Part of Etan Boritzer’s What Is? series, What Is Love? introduces a big idea in an approachable way for young readers.

Product Details

  • Author: Etan Boritzer
  • Reading age: Approximately 5–8 years
  • Length: 40 pages
  • Language: English
  • Dimensions: 8 × 10 inches
Weight.3 lbs
Dimensions8.25 × 10 × .3 in

About the Author

Etan Boritzer writes best selling books for children (ages 5 – 11) on character education, social values and the BIG questions which children ask about life. He believes as Audrey Hepburn said while Director of UNICEF: Children are the only hope; His books are translated into 6 languages and have been widely praised by numerous parents magazines, national newspapers and professional and educational reviews. He has written books for children on topics such as self-esteem, grief and loss, bullying, ethics and tolerance.

Reviews

WHAT IS LOVE? uses all of the sights, sounds and stories of being a child and being a human being to bring us deeper into the genuineness of love and all that it can really be in and for the human story and experience.
Rev. Dr. Richard B. Gilbert, World Pastoral Care Center

WHAT IS LOVE? presents a multicultural approach to educating children in an entertaining way about the larger choices in life; richly illustrated, it makes for terrific reading, and is appropriate for older children also.
Amanda Pisani, Editor, Science of Mind Review

WHAT IS LOVE? shows us how people’s need for each other can be met through trust in one another.
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