When You Open Your Kid’s Favorite Book, and See Your Own Life Staring Back


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“My mom ALWAYS cries when she reads this story to us,” my son loudly proclaimed to the librarian as we stepped up to the desk with a movie adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit. The librarian nodded and looked at me with a knowing smile. “Yep, it gets you right in the feels, doesn’t it?” she asked.

Oh, does it ever. We get about three pages in, to the part where the Velveteen Rabbit is learning about becoming real from the wise old Skin Horse, and I’m gulping and sniffling and struggling to keep reading while the tears blur my eyes and my kids are patting my back and saying “mom, it’s okay! It’s okay!”


Ashley Lande
Ashley Lande
Ashley Lande is a Jesus freak, artist and writer who lives in a tiny town in the Flint Hills of Kansas with her husband, two kids, two dogs and a small flock of chickens. Her work and blog are at www.ashleylande.com.

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