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to want to ditch a book, given as a gift to ds, that makes me cry..

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radiohelen · 20/01/2011 20:38

It's called Love you forever by Robert Munsch and it's a Canadian classic.
It's a great book. I can't read it without falling apart and crying like a baby.
Should I hide it? Give it away? Just leave it on the shelf until ds can read it for himself... I think that might actually be worse - listening to him read it I may end up face down in a tissue box surrounded by biscuits and choccy wrappers.

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cupofteaplease · 20/01/2011 20:39

No, keep it. One day you may feel strong enough to read it!

I get weepy at Stick Man though, so I'm no better...

mumsgotatum · 20/01/2011 20:40

OMG! I got given this book for DS by a Canadian friend. I thought I was the only one who cried every single time I read it. DS doesn't seem to be affected at all, only me!! DP thinks it's creepy that the mum is driving round town 'stalking' her son! I think it's a beautiful book

cookielove · 20/01/2011 20:40

is that the one that has a line, 'i love you my baby, my baby you will always be'

Mayqueene · 20/01/2011 20:42

Is that the one where the mad mother gets a bus across town and breaks in to her adult son's flat to hug him goodnight? Grin

It makes me a bit cry too but she's a bit bonkers if its the one I'm thinking of!!

ClareVoyant · 20/01/2011 20:43

i'd ditch it on the grounds that she has major boundary ishoos. think of the poor guy's wife.

jendifa · 20/01/2011 20:44

I love that book! Keep it.

jendifa · 20/01/2011 20:45

Its the one Joey reads in Friends isn't it? When its Emma's birthday

(hides face in embarrassment Blush)

McHobbes · 20/01/2011 20:47

Two words:

Goodbye

and

Mog

WAAAHHHH! Sad

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radiohelen · 20/01/2011 20:48

Mayqueene that's the one! Clearly she's nuts but then obv so am I! My DH has read it but doesn't get the big deal.... he is made of stone!

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stripeywoollenhat · 20/01/2011 20:51

we have that one: i have promised dd that i will never, ever break into her house like some sort of crazed bag lady when she grows up. seriously, not a healthy model.

we also have a book called 'no matter what' which does make me slightly weepy. same sort of thing, i suppose, but no stalking.

footballsgalore · 20/01/2011 20:52

I was shown that book once, by an old lady who had brought it back from Canada. I gulped back sobs as she read it to me...then made a swift exit to the loo!
Don't think I could ever bear to own it!!
The velveteen rabbit finishes me off every time. DS thought I was very odd on the one occasion he asked me to read it.Grin

bucketosoldiers · 20/01/2011 20:53

I just googled it to find out what the fuss was and welled up at the synopsis! Keep it and when you read it just explain to DS why you're blubbing. Sometimes I struggle to get through "Guess How Much I Love You" without a lump in my throat and have to explain to DS1 why!

Bingtata · 20/01/2011 20:56

YANBU, but its not the best Robert Munsch book - that is Paperbag Princess where the princess fights the dragon and calls the prince a bum!

BuzzLightBeer · 20/01/2011 20:57

I find it kinda

Panzee · 20/01/2011 20:59

No Matter What makes me cry. As I read it to a class I realised that it described exactly how I loved my son, and how I would no matter what. I'm welling up now!

hambo · 20/01/2011 21:02

I have the same problem! My MIL gave it to my H. He lives here (UK) and she lives in NZ...she gave it to him when she visited and burst into tears. I had just had a baby boy and suddenly understood how much she (MIL) must miss my H.....so every time I read the book I feel guilt as well and agony that one day my son will leave me........aaargh! Hide it!!!!!!

toeragsnotriches · 20/01/2011 21:09

I can't read or watch or hardly even think about 'The Snowman' for sobbing. We do have a copy but I have to leave the room if the kids get it out and as for Xmas time... DH will have to watch that one alone with DCs.

I had a friend at school who cried every time we had to sing 'Little Donkey'. Every time.

tummytickler · 20/01/2011 21:09

Oh God - That book makes me weep like a mad woman every time I read it! Just thinking about it can set me off!

dexifehatz · 20/01/2011 21:19

'Goodbye Mog'...gulp.

huntersmum · 20/01/2011 21:24

Well it has to be at least 15 years since I read the book to ds and dd and I cant remember the title, but the opening line goes " There was once a little baby who had no mummy". That opening line had me blubbing every time!!

JsOtherHalf · 20/01/2011 21:27

No Matter What gets me every time. The last line of My Mum (Anthony Browne) also gets me - something along the lines of "I love my mum, and I always will'. DH read it to DS this evening at bedtime, and watched with amusement as I welled up...lol.

huntersmum · 20/01/2011 21:33

The baby without a Mummy book is Bye Bye Baby by the Ahlbergs. I've just read the first page again - gulp! Thank goodness it has a happy ending.

Magicmayhem · 20/01/2011 21:39

I've got this book....
I loved it so much I emailed the author (most unlike me) and he emailed me back and told me that he penned the song

I?ll love you forever,
I?ll like you for always,
as long as I?m living
my baby you?ll be.?

when two of his babies were born dead!
I now cry just thinking about it...

deepdarkwood · 20/01/2011 21:40

Oh, yes, the weirdy-mum book. I simultaneously love it & get freaked out by it. But the capture of overwhelming of love and loss is utterly amazing

deepdarkwood · 20/01/2011 21:47

Oh, blimey, magicmayhem. I didn't know that, but it makes complete sense Sad