I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

If you cry like a fountain is a quirky book for children about the positive side of crying. This book will possibly make children giggle at the silly things crying can be useful such as for cooking pasta.
This was a fun inventive for a children's book. I just feel there was something missing but I can't put my finger on what it was.
The illustrations are lovely and eye catching throughout this book.

This book is hilarious! It took many silly and unexpected turns. I did not expect all of the useful things you could do with tears ;)

This one is more of a 3.5 from me. The narration and drawings were funny and will mostly get kids giggling, but the story just missed its mark for me. I didn't understand exactly what the book was about it what it was trying to get across to children, but I kind of understood the whole thing about crying is always bad being shown in a more positive light.

This book was pretty cute. It assures its reader that crying is normal and in fact beneficial and lists all of the reasons why. I would definitely read this to my daughter. Thank you to NetGalley for letting me read this!

If you Cry Like a Fountain by Noemi Vola

Kids and families with a sense of humor will love this book. Many of the pages are very creative and will get the reader’s creative juices (or is that creative tears) going. Some of the tearful situations are silly, others more common. I recommend reading aloud for ages 3 an up when a serious kid needs some "silly juice".

Thank you to @NetGalley and Penguin RandomHouse Canada for the opportunity to read and review this book as a digital advanced review copy.

This was a lovely book! It has a great message that it’s totally okay to cry, and provides silly/lighthearted examples of the best times and uses for crying. It shows the importance of finding someone to support you through it, or making something good out of a bad situation. This book would allow for a great discussion with young readers on expressing their emotions and how to handle them in a positive way. I also loved the illustrations and thought the art style was super cute!

ARC from NetGalley. This fun little book helps to normalize crying for children and states outright that tears are useful. The portion on crying far from home is especially hopeful and clever. The illustrations are particularly delightful.

I thought this book is the kind that tell kids why they should stop crying. Or encourage them with some reasons. But nope. This is a fantasy book on what would happen if you cry. Not just a short term cry, like when you hit something, but a longer version until your tears can fill up a pan, for example. A fun book, that might inspire kids to cry more or not.

Noemi Vola offers some different ways to find a use for tears in 'If You Cry Like a Fountain'. I loved the colorful illustrations and characters and the way the book started with the narrator interacting with the worm. There were also some speech bubbles that added some humor through the story. Unfortunately, I think the message this book sends missed the mark. I'm unsure of the true feelings of the author towards tears and crying, but a lot of this story felt more sarcastic than it did supportive. I do agree that sometimes making a child laugh when they feel sad is appropriate, but this book misses the importance of those tears in the first place, and seems to poke fun at tears. While I was hopeful for the potential in this story, it wouldn't be one I would choose to read to my children for fear of them interpreting it the way I did. I'd encourage grown ups to flip through first and see if it's appropriate for thier family, or if they could put a spin on it while reading that sends a more comforting message.

I appreciate the publisher, Penguin Random House Canada, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

This book was really cute with a good message. The graphics are amazing. A cute group of animal characters that kids will enjoy.

Very interesting and fun premise. I can see kids really laughing about how to use tears in different and unusual ways. The illustrations are cute! I missed more on the emotional aspect of crying though.

Thanks Netgalley for the advanced reader copy.

Cute illustrations and a quick read for kids...

But.....

Am not sure if I will read this out to my kiddo at the moment - am sure I will hear some ewwwwwwws - yup the hygiene bit wasn't too hygienic - and some kids might be confused..

All said, it was funny and a good attempt by the author..

I enjoyed the carefree illustrations depicting a worm and trying to solve a dilemma of tears and the predicaments one might find oneself if the tears can’t be turned off. One could just fill a pot with tears and boil some noodles you wouldn’t even have to season the pasta water the tears would provide enough.. silliness ensues. Very well thought out book. Illustrations whimsical ...as they should be. Thanks to #NetGalley, #NoemiVola for the opportunity to review early in exchange for an honest review.

Everyone needs to cry! What should you do when you want to cry like a fountain? Hilarious suggestions are given. It is a universal language. It works better than words. Now don’t we feel better?

If You Cry Like a Fountain is a story that begins with a sad worm who starts crying. The worm is told that there's no use to cry and if it cries, it should learn to cry better. The book then goes on to tell some ridiculous uses for tears, such as using tears to clean or to cry in a pot to make lunch. Perhaps the situations are supposed to be humorous for younger children. The book does say that everyone cries and that crying is a universal language. It says that crying helps everything and goes on to give additional absurd reasons for crying. I wish that the book's message was more useful for children, such as saying that crying is normal and that many people cry when feeling sad without being so silly.

The illustrations are cute and appealing to kids but I feel the story misses an opportunity to actually normalize crying instead it feels like the narrator panics.

I think I missed the purpose of the book. It started out by saying don't cry, and I gathered as it went on that it's okay to cry. I worry, from a teacher perspective, that students would have a hard time understanding the tie-in. Even just a page or two that wraps the story up, talking about how sometimes we have to cry and it's okay, would make the message of the book more clear. I did like the writing style, and think it is very child friendly. The illustrations are very cute as well.

A delightful book that made me think of the Pigeon series with the cadence and storytelling. Our six-year-old loved this book and filling the pot of water for tears for pasta!! We can't wait to purchase it for birthdays and gifts, what a wonderful way to create a safe understanding of the emotion of sadness and tears. The illustrations were quite cute and the flow of the book felt lovely and caring.

A book about how crying is not only OK but also necessary? Gimme 100 copies! I love the message of this book, and the art... oh it was glorious. I would pick up another book from this author!

I loved the art style and thought some of the illustrations were very cute. I think my favorite was of the lemon tree! However, I did not like the story of the book at all. I did not understand the beginning and didn't like the idea of the narrator accidentally making the worm cry and then proceeding to come up with jokes to try to rectify the moral of the story. I think it would be better suited for children to simply have the narrator jump into the aspects of the story that "everyone cries." Validating children's feelings and emotions at this age is so important, so it was disappointing to read mixed messages about crying. I don't think I would read this one to my preschool class.