It was sweet.

I listened to the audiobook too (I don't think it was the writer) which was very good.

I never read it but I saw the animated version just the other day with my kids and loved it. The drawing style has been kept and is awesome and there were bits here and there that I could absolutely relate to. The part that stuck with me was the part where >!the horse says he can actually fly but stopped cause the other horses were jealous. It’s like how tall teenagers/people hunch when they are around short people and then just always hunch instead of standing tall and proud!<

My second worse rated book of the year out of 235. All treacle and faux inspirational pyschobabble, like some attempt at a 21st century Little Prince, another book I despise. As a children’s librarian there are hundreds of meaningful and deep impacting illustrated childten’s books that are head and shoulders above this. Check out Margaret Wild’s The Fox, for one example.

I couldn’t resonate with it for one second.But my 8.5 year old was fascinated with it. He read it every night, for a fortnight. Eventually I asked him what was so special about it. He told me the story in the simplest of terms…friendship, help, home, loneliness, somehow cake too (?) So I think it served the purpose, just as a kid’s storybook. There’s nothing more to it besides some common themes and a weirdly cursive font.

It's got nice art but the text is a sequence of shallow, feel-good coffee-mug slogans

Honestly, it feels like a publisher saw a bunch of "live, laugh, love" quotes on someone's Instagram page and thought "let's slap these together into a book and call it a day". It's trying so hard to be inspirational and twee, but I thought it was drivel. The only decent character is the mole.

I thought it was sweet to look at, but far from insightful. I would give this to a young person for hope and inspiration, but there's nothing that earth-shattering about it, and not something I'd read over and over, as I've seen some people say.

This book was a HUGE seller when I worked at Barnes & Noble. We had to keep ordering copies cause so many people wanted it. I kind of read it once, and I remember not being that moved. I can't even remember what it's about. I'm assuming most people just wanted to give the book as a gift because they heard it was "inspirational."

It's really a kids ook. We adults can enjoy the lessons though

A friend gave that book to me as a birthday present. At first glance, I didn’t think much of it other than the noticeable drawings. But then later on, I could pick up on the philosophical life lessons. A good one but not everyone may be able to appreciate it though.

Exactly. Why the hype?

One thing that stuck with me from it was when one of the characters asks the boy what he wants to be when he grows up and he says >!'kind'!<. Other than that nothing else jumps out at me, the drawings were lovely but there wasn't enough in it for me to keep it.

It’s one of those books that makes a great gift but I’ve never read it myself, nor do I really want to.

Why is this one scene in the animation of "the boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse" constantly trending all over social media? Are people depressed or something?

I am wondering the same thing, constantly trending all over social media. Are people depressed or something?

Which scene was that? Can you please provide the link?

I love it. I’m 26 and it moved me deeply. Some of us didn’t get to experience or successfully develop emotional regularity as a child. It resonates with childhood trauma that still affects me and my entire life as an adult.