This book is so beautiful. Its sad, one of the few books that made me cry.

It makes me sad that some would avoid this book because of what happens. Its part of life and I think it makes stronger to read stories like this that affirm life and how our impact lasts even beyond our lifetimes.

the movie scarred me as a child so I never read it. it's so sad and it was always on children's tv, thinking about it still makes me want to cry. maybe I'm old enough to read it now XD

Be warned, I tried to re-read it as an adult and it is very much written for younger readers. Yes, the story is the same beautiful story, but it is 4-5th grade reading level writing. I couldn’t manage to get through it as an adult, even tho I loved it as a kid.

I generally love children's books so that's fine! it might be terapeutic for all the timed I accidentally watched the movie. when she >!dies because the rope breaks it was all because he wasn't there or something!<... it's so sad... crying XD

The movie is so good, I’m so glad they made it! But yeah, super sad. The book is the first time I ever remember learning anything sad about death that felt real and not some foreign concept.

The first time I read a book about death is when I was in the first grade and I read a little book about the protagonist's mum dying of cancer. it was the first time the teachers put a pile of children's novels on a table and told us to pick one. I picked the smallest hoping to read it in an hour which I did. by the end I was crying and sobbing trying to read the last words. I pictured the daughter climbing on the dying mum's bed as my mum's actual bed. all the other kids surrounded me all worried asking me what happened and why I was sobbing. I said I finished the book (don't know what it was) and the mum died. They realised it was the book and they all started laughing saying I read the book in an hour how is that possible you should be happy XD so I was sobbing and they were laughing that I finished the book because we'd been given a year to read one

Yikes. That’s awful. What a bunch of jerks

nah they were just other kids, they thought something actually happened to me from my big reaction but it was the book. also they thought it was cool that I finished it. overall looking back I think it was funny, I didn't have such big reactions to books again often when I was older :)