This book has lovely illustrations. It’s my favorite part of the entire book. They’re soft and cheerful and really feel like a hug. As for the story it is overly long. It’s almost like the author. Took two books and merged them into one. If the first half of the book was cut out and this was just the last half, where “I sent you a hug” and all the ways they send it, this book would’ve been perfect. But that extra stuff on what all a hug could be from the beginning just made it very hard to get through. It felt overly long and never ending at the same time. The story is there, I just don’t like it all together.