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Submitted by Emma C
Are You My Mother was an epic childhood story and bedtime favorite. The baby bird travels all over and sees all kinds of cool thing before finally being deposited back in his nest where he is reunited with his mother.
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Such a great book! I still have my old copy! ..torn and drawn on a little, but still good :]
i went out an bought this book, i remembered how much i loved it as a child
I read this to my son now. Of course, he’s all like “Why did his mama leave him? Is the baby bird scared? Will the mama bird come back?” I wonder if the book traumatized me this much when I was little…
Mommy ALWAYS comes back.
Though that SNORT! used to scare me.
Later, when I was teaching Sunday school, I used to use this book as a metaphor for our attempt to understand the Holy Spirit. The baby bird doesn’t know what his mother looks like or where to find her, but he’s sure she exists, and he is so determined:.
“I do have a mother! I know I do! I have to find her! I will. I WILL!”
And all the while he is getting lost and even wondering whether she cares about him, his mother is providing for his needs.
And sometimes it is the thing we would least expect, like the scary Snort, that helps us find our way back home to the love that is waiting for us.
Mostly, I think my students, who were a little older, just liked having an excuse to reread this book!
i love your use of this classic
When I was a very little child, I thought steam shovels were called “snorts!”
You mean they have another name?
You are not my mother. You are a SNORT!!
I am in my mid-forties and my dad is in his seventies, and we still call digging machines “snorts.”
lol!!! my mommy used to read this to me in a way that every time it came to the snort bit i would giggle hysterically!
I agree- when I first read the SNORT part I thought it was the funniest thing ever…I still lol when I think about it.
I used to LOVE this book!
My siblings and I still contradict each other by saying, “You are not my mother! You are a snort!”
I am 40, read this to my toddler, and still love it just as much as when I a kid.
My Mom read this to me when I was little, and we would have a code between us that sometimes I would look at her and she would make the snort noise she used when she read the book.
When she was in the end stages of her cancer, she often was incoherent and I would wonder if she even knew who I was or that I was there with her. But one day she looked over at me and made the snort noise.
I laughed and cried.
I love this book, I will forever.
Awww….I has a tear….
I never had the book when I was little but I used to watch a video of it. It was one of my favorites. I now have a copy of it on my bookshelf.
Mine is 4, and all digging machines are snorts!
(it was her dad’s fav, too!)
My mom would read this to me in French (translating from the English copy in her hands), and like Blaze’s mom, she would make this wicked piggish noise whenever she got to the Snort. A few years ago, she found our old copy in a box of books, and read it to me over the phone. When she did the Snort, I laughed so hard I almost cried. Now, when I read the story to kids, I do the same Snort, and it just kills them. <3 to moms who Snort while reading this book.
I read this book so often to both my kids I think I still have it memorized lol They used to love it when I snorted for the Snort. lol Love this book
I will love this book forever. Saw it recently at the grocery store and squealed. I picked it up and bought it right there and then. My kids didn’t understand why I HAD to have a “children’s” book. When we got home I left all the groceries where they were and sat my kids down on the couch and read through this book. They loved it and I re-lived great memories. They wanted to put it on their bookshelf, but I told them NO WAY it’s going on MY bookshelf *lol*.
My mom is still proud of the fact that she could make me and my brother bawl like the tiny children we were, every time she’d read this book. She put the emphasis on the “maybe he’ll never find his mother!” angle, I guess to make the happy ending seem happier by comparison. Twisted.
Have you guys done Go, Dog. Go! yet? Man, I loved that book. I would stare at the pictures for hours, literally.
“You are not my mother! You are a snort!”
omg i still have this book!!! this book taught me how to read!!!!
Ahahaha, I could read from a young age, and I used to have this book, too. The “Snort” always scared me, I’m still wary around large machinery
Do they even use steam shovels any more?
Although the first thing I thought when I saw this was the Doctor Who first season revival episode, The Empty Child … “Are you my mummy?”
I wonder if the writers of that had echoes of this book in their mind when they made that episode ……
Oh yeah, my favorite childhood book! Rivaled only by The Giving Tree.
Loved it as a bedtime story
My Dad would yell “SNORT!” when we got to that part of the story, my sister and I would always giggle hysterically, and it is still a family joke to this day!
This is truly a blast from the past.. I remember reading this book even though it was like 10+ years ago.
this was the first book I ever read when I learned how to read at age 2.
Grandma said that I had this book read to me so much that before I was actually reading I would “read” the story to her using the pictures.
My favorite book when I was little. Def. made my day to see this on the list.
My parents STILL quote this.
You’re not my mother! You’re a SNORT!
So does my best friend.