"On The Night You Were Born" by Nancy Tillman

I've had a go-to collection of kids books that I've adored since I was, well...a kid.  Not classics, by any means, but stories I remember reading with my parents.  What family didn't have a copy of "The Little Brute Family" on their coffee table?  Oh?  You didn't?  That was just me?  Again, the misfit.

I ordered a new book (ack!  change!) from Barnes & Noble, and it just showed up.

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This book is incredible.  For sure, it's the new bedtime book in our house.  It's prose is so lyrical, the illustrations are magic, and it carries a powerful message: that you are the one and only you!



So whenever you doubt just how special you are and you wonder who loves you, how much how far,
listen for geese honking high in the sky.
(They're singing a song to remember you by.)

Or notice the bears asleep at the zoo.
(It's because they've been dancing all night for you!)

Or drift off to sleep to the sound of the wind.
(Listen closely...it's whispering your name again!)
It's true, Miss Alaina James....the night you were born was a wonderful, powerful, magical night.  And this world is an infinitely better place for having you in it.