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

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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.

I've just read the synopsis on Amazon and I am in pieces! Definitely won't be buying that one!!

BurningBuntingFlipFlop! You have made me howl! That is so sad, but beautiful, and I don't think the mum is weird at all

It makes me sob every time I read it to dds. But I love it!

oh no, you have to keep it. I've seen the words before but it still makes me cry - not until the son gets to the sick mother though.

The youtube link with Robert Munsch reading it out loud, is hard to listen to - but not as hard as reading some of the moronic comments below it! Poor man - to have lost two babies, written this for them and have other people with no sense deriding his reading skills! :(

Arrrgghhh! This is why I shouldn't read mumsnet at work!

As a Canadian, I can say it makes me cry too! In our family, and with most I know, it is traditionally given when someone has a baby. Mr. Munsch does tours at many schools, and bases many of his stories on the kids he meets. He came to my dd's school, to meet a student who won a competition, and my dd was terrified of him! She said he gives her the creeps, but she still loves his books. He is such a fantastic author : )

Bunting, you have done me in. And I am reading this on the train!

I love my kids as teenagers, have no desire to see them forever as babies and have no desire to wake them up by rocking them. The mother sounds a bit nutso to me, agree the creeping in adult son's window is mad not cute. If anyone here's MIL did that to their husband they'd be yelling about what a fruit bat she was.
Why are babies considered more lovable than children or adults?
I don't get this book at all. Love the Lorax.

DD has a book called 'Hug'. It only has three words in it, but I've never got to the end without grizzling. She thinks (or at least thought) it was hysterical to see.

Just read this review and now I can't see for tears. And I need to put my slap on for work!

www.amazon.co.uk/review/R28KWSZ34DSPO/ref=cm_cr_dp_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0920668372&nodeID=266239&tag=&linkCode=

A while ago I babysat for my Grandson. My DS1 (his daddy) was settling him down for the night. I listened on the monitor to him trying to read the book to my GS....he managed to read it all with GS commenting...'Awwww Daddy wuv dis book' then his encore was to sing the song I used to sing to him. He sang Danny Boy but put in the words 'Oh Tiny Boy.....'

DS came downstairs to me sobbing just looked at me and tutted

shabba, you got me crying now!

Sorry - its a bit early in the morning isin't it?

Get's me every time! Dd thinks it's funny. And No Matter What, and Goodbye Mog. Luckily Horrid Henry does not have the same effect....

I am sat here with 16 week old GS asleep in moses basket next to me while DD catches up after a bad night and am sobbing. " I'll love you for ever."

Dogger as well for me.

And ByeBye Baby....well the old uncle in that is my darling Dad to a T . It's uncanny we had to go thro the book putting stickers over "Old Uncle" words and replacing them with "Grandad."

I read the Mog books as a kid, and have bought a few for my DD - she loves them and I love reading them. Went to the bookshop once and realised there is now a book in the series called 'Goodbye Mog'. Literally shed a tear as I read it in the bookshop. Haven't bought it. Don't think I'll ever be able to. We've got a cat whom DD loves and who will obviously die one day but even then I don't think I could bring myself to buy it.

Kind of similar to the way in which I refuse to watch the final episode of Inspector Morse. I'm a sad man.

I can't read Puff the Magic Dragon makes me cry every time.

It's DP's job

Robert Munsch is unique, that's for sure. I think a lot of people get teary at I Love You Forever. Have you heard him read it? Check it out here. robertmunsch.com/books/ You can listen to him read many of his books.
His stories are on tape and probably cd now. This article, on page 2, tells about his still born babies.

www.50plus.com/lifestyle/the-boy-inside-the-man/2097/
I ♥ Robert Munsch books.

Oh God... I had no idea about the author's children. That's just made me cry all over again. I think I'm going to stick it at the back of the bookshelf and ignore it.

On the plus side - glad I'm not alone!

kreecher Is that the book where the monkey wants a hug? If so, I'm completely with you on that one.

Oh my goodness, reading the text made me weep and just as I was getting over it, shabbapinkfrog's story made me howl.

I also got that book from DH's Canadian relatives. DD was a few weeks old and we were sitting around chatting and I idly flicked through the book.

I sobbed furiously and silently for about a minute whilst pretending to see to DD. I hope no-one noticed. It was the first time I had met them and I didn't want them to think I was totally nuts.

Are none of you 'Friends' fans? Joey uses this as a monologue to read to baby Emma and to do at an audition. When he reads it everyone else crys.

Another one which does me in is Monkey Puzzle. That last page where little monkey is running to his mother with arms outstretched yelling 'MUM!' I haven't been able to read that last 'mum' yet without my voice cracking.

How about 'Badgers Parting Gifts'. That's one that does it for me - had it for dd21, when she was little and have readit to ds11 and dd5 - still wail all the way through it.

And have just watched the Robert Munsch youtube vid and am in a state.