which is summarized below (with name of author):
Perhaps some of you have heard of the book Love You Forever. It was written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Sheila McGraw. Published in 1986, the book has become a classic in children’s literature.

The book tells a simple story with an even simpler refrain. When the storybook is first opened we see a picture on the right hand page of a mother rocking her baby. She rocks the baby back and forth. While she rocks him, she sings this song: “I’ll love you forever, / I’ll love you for always, / As long as I’m living / my baby you’ll be.”

On the next page the picture is of a typical young boy making a mess with the toilet paper in the bathroom and spilling just about everything in the bathroom on the floor. His mother felt at times like the boy would drive her crazy. All parents know that reaction. But when nighttime would come, mother would put her baby boy to bed. Once she thought he was asleep, she would pick him up and rock him back and forth and sing her song: “I’ll love you forever, / I’ll love you for always, / As long as I’m living / my baby you’ll be.”

We see the boy next as a nine-year old, a nine-year old who didn’t want to come in for dinner or take a bath. A nine-year old who sometimes said bad words. Mother thought at times that she would like to sell her son to the zoo. But then nighttime would come. If he was asleep, she would pick him up and rock him gently and sing: “I’ll love you forever, / I’ll love you for always, / As long as I’m living / my child you’ll be.”

And the boy grew some more. He became a teenager. He had strange friends, wore strange clothes, listened to strange music. Sometimes his mother now felt that she lived in a zoo. But at nighttime her routine didn’t change. She would crawl silently across the bedroom floor and if he was asleep, she would take this big boy in her arms and rock him gently and sing her love song.

And the boy grew and left town and got a house of his own. Sometimes even then his mother would drive across town to her son’s house. She would sneak into the house and if he was really asleep, she would take him in her arms (this big man in her arms!) and rock him and sing her song of love.

Now it was mother’s turn to grow old. Her son sometimes visited her. And she would try to sing her song to him. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll love you for always…”

That’s as far she could go with her song. It was now the son’s turn to sing. As his mother grew older he would take her in his arms and sing: “I’ll love you forever, / I’ll love you for always, / As long as I’m living / my Mommy you’ll be.”

The son returned to his home. His mother was on his mind. His baby daughter was on his mind. He held that baby daughter in his arms, rocked her ever so gently and sang: “I’ll love you forever, / I’ll love you for always, / As long as I’m living / my baby you’ll be.”

It is a very moving book, which I have read to my son many times.

The important thing is the difference between "love" and "like" which is not easy to translate in Italian, but is underlined in the book.
The mother says that not only she loves her son, as any mother would, but she likes her son.
My translation below is not very "poetic" but reflects this difference:

Ti amerò per sempre
Mi piacerai sempre
Finché avrò vita
Sarai sempre il mio bambino

Regards
Paola L M