Are You My Mother

I loved Are You My Mother? as a child because my own mother would read it to me. She would make all of the sounds that the story called for. It was funny to hear her making the sounds, and it was nice to have some time alone with her (I’m the 5^th of 7 children). Whenever we read it, she would also usually end by assuring me she wouldn’t lose me, and she’d always be my mother, and it was wonderful. It was a fairly simple book, but meant a lot to me to read it with my mother. It was also interesting, because I dated a guy pretty seriously last year from Haiti and he had never heard of this book. On one of our dates we went to Borders and I picked out that book and read it out loud with all of the sounds. It brought back a lot of memories about my childhood and the time I spent with my mother, and it was great.