do you ever read children's books and cry?

joyco

geez-us.  I just read a book to the boys on the floor and started crying halfway through!  what a lame-ass I am. 

It was called Let Me Hold You Longer by Karen Kingsbury.  Dude.  Talk about sad.  About celebrating the "lasts" of your child.  Made me really sad that these are the only kids we'll have.  Good grief, I don't need any book making me feel that way!

There's another one out there called Dribbles about when a family has to put their pet cat to sleep.  OMG.  I read it while I was working at the library and then I forbade a bunch of parents from checking it out, thinking it was a sweet cat story for their kids (I would kinda pull them aside and tell them how hard I had cried-I seriously had to take a break and wash my face, I was crying like a big ole baby!-and then they'd be like, "oh, we don't want something like that!").

What children's book makes you cry?  Is there one?  Am I just a sap?

libbyann

It's one of my favorites, but Love You Forever always makes me cry. Someday does too - it's so touching!

kellenickle

"Oh The Places You Will Go" got me the other night... I was feeling emotional beforehand though

 

brideonjuly8

libbyann:

It's one of my favorites, but Love You Forever always makes me cry.

I say the quote to DS every night before I put him to bed.

Oh jeez....

ali-1411

YES!  So many times, Jakob thinks I'm nuts.  He brought home a library book about an old man telling his grandson about his life.  The words were simple enough but the pictures showed him as a Jew during WWII and friends disappearing....I sobbed through that one.

Some Shel Silverstein poems gets me choked up, too.  And the first time I read The Velveteen Rabbit to Jakob, I cried through that too.

I'm such a sap.  I cried in Transformers when they caught Bumblebee  

lovemydog

the giving tree gets me every time

joyco

ali-1411:

YES!  So many times, Jakob thinks I'm nuts.  He brought home a library book about an old man telling his grandson about his life.  The words were simple enough but the pictures showed him as a Jew during WWII and friends disappearing....I sobbed through that one.

Some Shel Silverstein poems gets me choked up, too.  And the first time I read The Velveteen Rabbit to Jakob, I cried through that too.

I'm such a sap.  I cried in Transformers when they caught Bumblebee  

I cross-stitched the poem by Shel Silverstein--Listen to the Mustn'ts and cried the whole freaking time.  

I need to read them beforehand so I get my cries out in private.  haha.

heybabe

The Giving Tree gets me every time. I am a sap though. (Sorry, couldn't resist)

amyliisa

The Giving Tree. Gets me every single time. A couple other too, like Love You Forever.

heybabe

lovemydog:

the giving tree gets me every time

whoa! jinx! 

mcurban

Love you forever creeps me out. There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom is a book for older kids. I used to use it as a read aloud and there was one section that made me cry year after year. There's a book that I read to J & T, but now that I'm trying to think of the name, I can't.

joyco

Love You Forever-a children's book?  I may just have to get it, I always enjoy a good cry.  Just not in front of the children. 

libbyann

Yup...can't remember the author right now. There's a little poem that repeats throughout where the mom says to her son, "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be." She sings that to him every night (while rocking him) as he grows up and even into his adulthood...then when he's an adult and she's sick/dying, he comes and sings that to her, then goes home and sings it to his new baby girl. Yeah, making me teary just thinking about it!

mcurban

joyco:

Love You Forever-a children's book?  I may just have to get it, I always enjoy a good cry.  Just not in front of the children. 

it's about this mom who tells her son every night how much she loves him and how he will always be her baby. The book has her (if I remember correctly) sneaking in the window of his house ( with him being a grown man) to say the poem about him being her baby. I get that it's metaphorical, but honestly, it's creepy. I'm off the mind that once my boys are grown men, their wives/ partners can take on the middle if the night cuddles.

libbyann

mcurban:

I get that it's metaphorical, but honestly, it's creepy. I'm off the mind that once my boys are grown men, their wives/ partners can take on the middle if the night cuddles.

Oh come on. You know you'll be sneaking into Tommy's window for some middle of the night cuddles in 18 years (well, 17 years, 8 months and 1 week, according to your new ticker) 

mcurban

This is the text https://www.rogerknapp.com/inspire/loveforever.htm (on phone, can't clicky). The whole cycle if life thing is touching, but combined w/ the illustrations (picture grown man rocking elderly mom in his lap) is too much for me.

joyco

mcurban:

This is the text https://www.rogerknapp.com/inspire/loveforever.htm (on phone, can't clicky). The whole cycle if life thing is touching, but combined w/ the illustrations (picture grown man rocking elderly mom in his lap) is too much for me.

that sounds creepy and disturbing.  Maybe I won't get it.  I'll be laughing too hard.  

bobcatsteph

Oops..double post.

bobcatsteph

libbyann:

Yup...can't remember the author right now. There's a little poem that repeats throughout where the mom says to her son, "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living, my baby you'll be." She sings that to him every night (while rocking him) as he grows up and even into his adulthood...then when he's an adult and she's sick/dying, he comes and sings that to her, then goes home and sings it to his new baby girl. Yeah, making me teary just thinking about it!

Ugh..that one gets me every time. It's the first book I ever read to DD and I lost it..the pp hormones didn't help either.

jkinslow

lovemydog:

the giving tree gets me every time

This book always has me in tears.

 

Abrooks

I'm with MC on the Love You Forever book.  It's all sweet until the kids grown up and married the mom and son are sneaking in windows and cuddling.  Then it's just weird and awkward. 

The Giving Tree definitely. 

 

molliedb

someday came out when i was pregnant with lily and i bawled like a baby in teh bookstore reading it.  then my mom bawled with me when i gave it to her for mother's day.

its more for mothers/daughters though.

ablou

I read Charles a story every night (already... I know...), and Runaway Bunny just about killed me the other night. 

btrrcupbride

brideonjuly8:

libbyann:

It's one of my favorites, but Love You Forever always makes me cry.

I say the quote to DS every night before I put him to bed.

Oh jeez....

I sing the lullaby to DD before bed everynight also.  I literally weep reading it and DD looks at me like I am nuts.  We have had alot of loss in our family lately and this one is gut wrenching for me.
But I still love it.

carlinlp

don't laugh......

horton hears a who 

...a persons a person no matter how small...

dh laughs at me every time.

ali-1411

mcurban:

Love you forever creeps me out. There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom is a book for older kids. I used to use it as a read aloud and there was one section that made me cry year after year. There's a book that I read to J & T, but now that I'm trying to think of the name, I can't.

I LOVE that book!  I have it waiting until Jakob is old enough to read it.  I think I know the part you mean, when the counselor has to resign and she tells the boy and he runs out crying and throws his little glass rabbit under the bed 

Another really good tear jerker for that age is Maniac McGee.

AustinAggie

Lots of them make me cry.  Rocking the kids to sleep and singing makes me cry too because I know it won't last forever.  I'm such a sap.  I even teared up a couple of times at DS's preschool informational meeting (not even the first day of school) - I'm a freak.

mcurban

<--- laughing. can't help it. 

 

carlinlp:

don't laugh......

horton hears a who 

...a persons a person no matter how small...

dh laughs at me every time.

mcurban

ali-1411:

mcurban:

Love you forever creeps me out. There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom is a book for older kids. I used to use it as a read aloud and there was one section that made me cry year after year. There's a book that I read to J & T, but now that I'm trying to think of the name, I can't.

I LOVE that book!  I have it waiting until Jakob is old enough to read it.  I think I know the part you mean, when the counselor has to resign and she tells the boy and he runs out crying and throws his little glass rabbit under the bed 

nope, i cry at the part where he makes a list about the things on his mind and it's all related to the kids hating him. 

but yeah, the animals make me sad for him, how he goes home and recreates his day

 

Duckie07

The Giving Tree was the first one that came to mind.  Apparently lots of other Nesties feel the same.  The Kissing Hand is another that hasn't been mentioned yet.  I think there are more books for older kids that are (possible) tearjerkers, like Where the Red Fern Grows.  I don't know if I've actually shed tears over a book, definitely get a lump in my throat though (I guess my cold heart doesn't allow me to cry ).

ditzydi_2000

Hee hee hee.  We've been slowly buying books for our LO but I usually try and find the funny silly ones so that I dont' have situations like this.  Ha.  Adding those books to my "do not buy" list.  Hee hee.

JezcaM

god gave us you. i thought it was just the pp hormones, but now it's been 2 years and i've never gotten through it without getting choked up.