True story.
The lay woman in charge of religious education at our parish used that book to instruct us in the sacrament of baptism at a required class for the parents of those to be baptised. She read the parents that book to show us about God's love (or something like that). Think she just might be a little loose with her orthodoxy? (We also got to pray to a candle and watch her pour water to show us what great symbols these are - nothing from scripture, or any orthodox church source in reference. Just her own blathering.)
Did little Snuffy - you don't mind me treating you as a small child, no? - not learn the lesson well enough? For your next assignment, you must read "The Giving Tree". This is more advanced. Written for the Confirmation. We trust you will comply.
In real life, the woman in the book would be considered, what, disturbed? That picture, the detail of the red hankie, still makes me pee my pants with laughter.