A Perfect Children's Book for Triplets:

One of the most popular children's stories on the market is Guess How Much I Love You written by Sam McBratney and illustrated by Anita Jeram. The pair teamed up again in an equally enjoyable book called You're All My Favorites which is a perfect story for triplets. The story focuses on a family with a mother bear, a father bear and three baby bears. Each night, the parents tuck their three babies into bed and tell them they are all the most wonderful baby bears in the world. The baby bears wonder how their parents know they are the most wonderful bears in the world. Each baby bear questions how he or she could be as wonderful as his or her siblings when they are all quite different. The first worries that he does not have patches on his fur like his brother and sister. The second is concerned because she is the only girl bear, and the third bear is confused because he is the smallest of the three. The mother and father bear explain that the baby bears are all perfect exactly the way they are, and the differences between them don't matter at all. They're all still their mother and father's favorites.

This is a wonderful story for triplets or even three children of different ages to help them understand that parents don't have favorites among their children. Children learn that their differences make them unique and special but have no bearing on how much their parents love them. With or without patches, girl or boy, big or small, parents love their children just the same. The story provides a wonderful sense of reassurance to siblings, which is particularly helpful for triplets who can easily lose their individuality. Triplets are always referred to as a unit, "the triplets," and rarely have an opportunity at a young age to develop outside of that unit. Inevitably, they'll question their parents' love for them based on the differences between them as part of the triplet group. You're All My Favorites explains parents' unconditional love for their children, and let's triplets know it's okay to be different from their brothers or sisters.

I was a fan of Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram's work in Guess How Much I Love You after reading it years ago to my nieces and nephews. When my triplets were born, it was one of the first books I received as a gift, and reading it quickly became a bedtime ritual for my babies. Not long after my triplets were born, You're All My Favorites was recommended to me by other triplet mothers on The Triplet Connection online forum. The Triplet Connection is one of the largest support groups for parents of triplets, and I became an avid reader of their online forum shortly after I became pregnant with my own triplets. The advice given by other parents of triplets is invaluable, so when You're All My Favorites was recommended as a perfect story for triplets, and I saw Sam McBratney wrote it and Anita Jeram illustrated it, I bought it immediately. I love this book, and I know it will be a favorite for my triplets for many years to come.