NOT AGAIN (Picture: YouTube)

This struggle, or should we say snuggle, is real.

There are no two words more distressing for a bookworm at the end of a great book than ‘The End’. As this adorable little scholar has learnt.

A video called ‘The saddest bookworm’, which shows a young mum reading to her son, was uploaded to YouTube yesterday and has already had 33,000 views.

The 90 second clip begins with baby happily enjoying a reading of ‘I am a Bunny’, the story of Nicholas, a bunny clad in red overalls.


But as mum reads the final page: ‘Then I curl up in my hollow tree and dream about spring…The End,’ he absolutely loses it.

Until mum starts a new book and calm is slowly restored.



The video then skips to another day, another reading of ‘I am a Bunny’, and another total meltdown.

Because, as mum says, ‘He knows no greater sadness than the end of a book,’ (although she admits he has a similar reaction when food is taken away).

Also, as one YouTuber comments, ‘I know that exact feeling whenever I read “I am a Bunny”. On the outside it may look like a children book, but it’s one of the saddest book out there.’

As for future reading suggestions, we’re thinking ‘The Neverending Story’. But maybe avoid Little Women, or The Fault in our Stars for a while.

Here’s the full adorable video:

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