I was just answering a post about animal death and recomended City Dog Country Frog by Mo Willems. It reminded me of when I first skimmed through the book while sitting in my son's room. Luckily my children were downstairs at the time because it made me blubber like a baby! There's also the ending of This Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown that I can't seem to get through without getting choked up. Total sap, I know. What kid books affect you like this? Or do they at all?
"Love you Forever"
I think it is beautiful, but my mom thinks it is creepy that the mother climbed a ladder to enter her grown son's bedroom :-)
Tracy K mentioned all three of my top tear-jerkers
Love You Forever
The Giving Tree
On The Night You Were Born
If Love you Forever is the book about the Mom rocking her son into adulthood then the son rocking his very elderly Mother and then his new baby... yes it really teared me up.
Many kids books tear me up, must be normal for Moms to take things more sentimentally or to heart.
Love You Forever...every time!!
One night my husband read it and came out of our daughters room all choked up and said, "Why didn't you warn me about THAT book!!"
Love You Forever and The Giving Tree
Oh one more. On The Night You Were Born
I've read " Love You Forever" ONCE.
I CRY just THINKING about that book!
"I'll Love You Forever"
"Someday"
Those get me every time.
The Velveteen Rabbit.
That book destroys me.
P.S.
I am the only one TOTALLY creeped out by I Love You Forever?
For some reason All The World gets to me. And Guess How Much I Love You. And something about Obama's letter to his daughters got me a little, too.
"The Giving Tree" turns me into a soggy mess every time. And "Guess How Much I Love You" really gets to me as well. I can't even read them without crying - I'm really glad both of my kids can read on their own now! Sniffle...
My SIL bought me the one "Love you Forever". I refuse to read it to my children because I can't get through it. My mom also bought one for my daughter called "Tummy Girl" which is about growing up which took me at least 5-6 times reading before I could do it without crying.
J.
Love You Forever, Robert Munsch, gets me EVERY time.
Sniff.
:)
Love You Forever still gets me.
Everywhere Babies is a tear jerker, too.
Wow, I must be a robot, because I HATE "Love You Forever." I'm with Queen of the Castle's mom. I think it's really really creepy.
I love "On the Day You Were Born."
I agree with Love you forever...I cried when I read it. I was blaming it on pregnancy hormones.
My husband says "i'll love you forever" is emotional terrorism. He hates books that are written for the sole purpose of making mommies melt. I tell him he's heartless. :)
For me it's been more about times of reading books that have brought me to tears. The other day my 2 1/2 year old read me "The Very Hungry Catapillar" She didn't read it so much as have most of the book memorized. It brought me to tears because of how cute she was and how quickly she is growing up. There are some books that are just amazing aren't there?
Butterfly Kisses
and I Will Love You Forever .
"The Giving Tree", that was one of my favorites and always made me tear.
Definatly "love you forever" because I have a little boy :) and "I love you because you are you" And my husband got one of those recordable books for my son "all the ways I love you" gets me, especially if my husband is out of town he loves hearing his voice.
"Someday" by Alison McGee --- I'm a blubbering mess by the end
"The Velveteen Rabbit" --- sooooo sweet, still makes me cry
The Clown of God by Tomie DePaola..
Oh my.. completely beautiful and powerful. I have given it as gifts to more adults than I have to children.
I cannot even make it through "I will love you Forever" without tearing up....
Yes! The giving tree and also a book called "pete and Pickles." Seriously sad but good books!
"The Giving Tree"..I read it to my grandsons second grade class last year..towards the end...it was hard getting the words out without my voice cracking.
The Velveteen Rabbit will always make me cry. And, after a particularly hard day with my DS, I read Mad at Mommy, by Komako Sakai, and I couldn't make it through it!
And I love City Dog Country Frog...despite the tears :) I think great books should move you, and sometimes the direction it moves you in is tears.
A lot of my children's school books do that to me...LOL I use Sonlight Curriculum and all their books have that effect...
My 9 year-old daughter and I just read a book called "Captain Nobody" and the ending gave me tears. Great book!
Love You Forever
The Giving Tree
The chapter in Little House when Jack dies. It's one of the later books, Little Town in the Prairie, maybe.
Gentle Ben
Where the Red Fern Gorws.
I'm sorry, Love You Forever is cheesy AND creepy. Also, I don't like repeated phrases, I don't like the illustrations, and it is trying too hard to be sentimental. It's like the end of a perfectly otherwise fine movie (that's a Comedy or something) trying to make you feel that "warm and fuzzy" feeling at the end (it's OUT OF PLACE!)... except its the whole book. LOL:)
NOW, The Giving Tree is WAAAAAAY more meaningful, but didn't make me cry. I think once I got a sore feeling in my throat, though.
I'll Love You Forever
Guess How Much I Love You
Toy Story 3 the jr. novel
I am a sap when it comes to these books.../
Good luck and best wishes at having more wonderful story times with your kiddos!
Another I'll love you forever here. Although, it's not every time I read it. But the first time I heard it was at someone else's baby shower and I bawled!
The one that gets to me EVERY TIME is Where the Red Fern Grows. It never fails, and I read it over and over and over. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.
"Life As We Knew It".....yes, I cried - even tho' my son warned me.
"The Giving Tree" by Shell Silverstein does it to me every time I read it to my kids. They just kind of look at me funny since it goes over their heads! I have loved that book since I was a kid!
eta: just read the responses and I forgot about "Love You Forever"...I may have to pick up a copy of that!
"The Giving Tree" chokes me up! I bawled the other night trying to read it to my 5 year old.
"Old Turtle" is a beautiful book, but for some reason I get choked up over it.
One of my all-time favorite Christmas books EVER is "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" and I always cry at the end (and it's a kid book -I remember getting misty-eyed in second grade when they read it to us and I still do).
The absolute worst though is "The Littlest Angel" -my mother gave it to me as a child and it made me cry then! Just thinking of it makes me tear up. It doesn't help now that I have two precious little blonde boys who look like the little boy angel on the cover of my copy. Sometimes I mist up when I find my five-year old's "stash" box of special rocks and little things he finds special (this is part of the book) -I guess that book flat-out warped me!
Karen Kingsbury's book Let Me Hold You Longer. About a mother looking back in her son's life and thinking of all the lasts (last time rocked good night, last time holding him, last time cheering him on at football, last high school dance) and how if she had known she would have held on to that last. I cry every single time I read it to my son!
I ended up buying a copy of "Spider Sisters" for both of my sisters as well as for my girls. I still can't read it without crying.
It just talks about how the older sister is so good to her little sister and will not go to a party if the sister is not invited. Love my sisters, but my oldest daughter is so NOT kind to her little sister!
Where the Red Fern Grows
Welcome With Love
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
"Let Me Hold You Longer." A friend of mine gave it to our son for Christmas last year...I so should have read it before reading it to my son because he just looked at me with a confused look on his face of why I was crying reading a book to him.
The Kissing Hand and for some reason the last pages of The Polar Express.
"Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant.
It's for older kids, 9-12. I bought it for my daughter and read it first, I couldn't put it down.
My son, who is 9 years younger, read it and it's such a wonderful story, but he cried at the end too.
I've shared this book with my sister, with my father before he passed away.
It's a wonderful story of love and rememberance and very uplifting in it's way.
http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Yearling-Newbery-Cynthia-Ry...
Best wishes.
Guess I am heartless, the only book that has ever made me cry was Marley and Me. :)
OMG! totally agree with the other momma's! Love you forever, gets me every time!! Makes me want to keep my little boy little forever!!!
Goodnight Moon is always the one that brings the waterworks. Also I Love You All Day Long brings tears to me.
Add me to the Love You Forever sap club. Damn book gets me every time.
