What's the bedtime book that makes Kourtney Kardashian cry?

by

Carolyn Robertson

posted in Celebrities

Do you have a go-to bedtime book in your house?

It's always changing at our place, but at the moment my youngest is crazy about Stephanie's Ponytail by Robert Munsch and a funny little book called The Hiccupotamus by author and illustrator Aaron Zenz. I could recite both by heart.

My 9-year-old is drifting slowly into the world of chapter books, so she and I are working our way through Anne of Green Gables at the moment. I think I may be loving it a little more than she is, though.

Story time is in full swing over at Kourtney Kardashian's house, too. The reality star mom-of-three recently Tweeted, "Can not read this without crying. Good night!"

So what was the book that reduced Kourtney to tears? Someday by Alison McGhee.

If you've read this story, you won't be surprised. I got a copy as a gift when my youngest daughter was just a baby and bawled a puddle of big, sloppy tears the first time I read it.

"One day I counted your fingers and kissed each one..." the book begins. By the end that baby is all grown up, a mother with a child of her own. In between the brief story leaps through her life and all the milestones along the way.

Like this one: "Someday you will hear something so sad that you will fold up with sorrow."

Oh. My heart.

Over the past almost decade I've read, like most of you, hundreds of kids' books thousands of times. Some are great, some are - let's face it - pretty painful. And some are so surprisingly touching that they reduce even a grown-up story-teller to tears.

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