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

116 replies

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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Blatherskite · 21/01/2011 09:59

I only half listened to the YouTube thing before geting bored but then someone posted the text and I broke down!! Maybe it's because my Grandad is dying right now so it's all a bit close to home Sad

Glad I'm not alone in blubbing at "Velveteen Rabbit" and "Guess How Much I Love You" though. We've also got one called "I Love You As Big As The World" which chokes me up.

Never gotten teary at "Monkey Puzzle" though, we love that one.

HereMeRoar · 21/01/2011 10:06

Thanks ladies. Sobbing now.

We have one called "Up to the Skies" that gives me a lump in my throat. There's a song on the Sing and Sign DVD that does it to me as well (I have 2 eyes to see you...)

We have a book called "Small" that's about siblings and that one sets me off as well.

[big softie emoticon] Grin

Changing2011 · 21/01/2011 10:08

Just bought "I'll love you Forever" on Amazon thanks for the link. Fills me up!!

becaroo · 21/01/2011 10:09

ok, I am sat here sobbing...you all happy????? Smile

Guess how much I love you gets to me.

Havent read monkey puzzle but we have it.

Velveteen rabbit...sob!

I am 39 this year and I still cry at the end of the railway children;
"daddy, my daddy!"

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MrsTumbles · 21/01/2011 10:51

God damn you! I'm in work crying my eyes out with a load of blokes looking at me like I've gone mental! My DH has stopped me reading No Matter What to our DD as I can't read the last page without crying!

As for guess how much I love you, I know that by heart. When DD was in hospital I recited it word for word to her at about 2 o'clock in the morning to get her to sleep. I went for a wee to be confronted by 3 sobbing adults hugging their kids asking me how did I make up such a beautiful story! I had to admit the words weren't my own, but I ment every one of them. Oh crap, I've started myself off again...

BalloonSlayer · 21/01/2011 10:59

I knew before I clicked it'd be this book!

I also cry at The Lorax.

And I completely and utterly break down at the end of The Happy Prince. When God asks his angel to bring him the two most precious things in the city and the angel goes to the dump and brings back the dead bird and the lead heart. > Sad

Chrysanthemum5 · 21/01/2011 11:02

To be honest, she does sound a bit odd climbing in to her son's flat to cuddle him, but it still made me cry. Fortunately my office mate isn't in today!

When DS was a baby I found this poem which makes me cry everytime I read it, but I keep a copy to remind me that while I want to keep the DCs as my babies my role is to help them grow up and leave:
A Wish for My Children - Evangeline Paterson
On this doorstep I stand
year after year
to watch you going

and think: May you not
skin your knees. May you
not catch your fingers
in car doors. May
your hearts not break.

May tide and weather
wait for your coming

and may you grow strong
to break
all webs of my weaving.

FreudianSlipIntoMyLaptop · 21/01/2011 11:06

I've wanted that book for ages. I'll gladly take it off your hands :)

FreudianSlipIntoMyLaptop · 21/01/2011 11:07

Love you forever, that is.

suzikettles · 21/01/2011 11:14

My mum bought Dogger for ds a while ago but as he's got so many books I only got round to reading it last week.

I was reading the part where Dave finds out a little girl has bought Dogger and won't give her back and I think I was being a little emotional in my reading because ds started howling and howling. Absolutely breaking his heart.

I managed to persuade him to let me finish the story to show him that it has a happy ending (and of course I was getting all choked up when "Bella did a Very Kind Thing") but he's told me now to put it away and not to read it again because it's Too Scary.

Note to self: Never read him the Velveteen Rabbit.

rememberingnothing · 21/01/2011 11:20

My eldest hides under the duvet when Dogger comes out but my youngest loves it (as do I) and I can now even read it all without too much crying.

cjdamoo · 21/01/2011 11:34

Oh cock ive just read that and am sobbing and cant see to type

OrdinaryJo · 21/01/2011 11:44

Cheers MNers, nothing like a good old howl on a Friday morning to clear out the tubes

KittyLilith · 21/01/2011 11:50

Well I'll have to learn not to open threads like this while I'm pregnant. I've joined the ranks of the sobbing. The poem 'Song for a fifth child' makes me cry. here And damn it, reading it before I posted it made me sob more.

pranma · 21/01/2011 13:01

No Matter What does it for me every time...
"Love.like starlight,never dies".
I am not sure I like the idea of the mother 'crawling across the floor' now that is just odd.If it had said 'tiptoed' or even 'crept' which has connotations of moving quietly but 'crawled'[yuk].

mrskbpw · 21/01/2011 13:18

I don't like the mother crawling across the floor, either. Though I have crawled OUT of my children's rooms on occasion, in the hope that they'll stay asleep and not notice I've gone. Is that the same thing?!

I can't read Guess How Much I Love You without crying. And I can't look at the last page of Peepo, when the daddy is in his uniform and he's obviously going back to the war and the little cheerful baby has no idea... sob.

I have obviously made too much of this though, as every time we read it my three-year-old says very solemnly "this is Very Sad".

CaptainNancy · 21/01/2011 13:35

Oh suzikettle - yes! Dogger... I howled reading that to DD the first time (never read it as a child)...

mrskbpw we have had this discussion on mn before... but I think the Daddy in Peepo is going on nightwatch airraid duty as a home guard!

What makes me cry on that page is "A Mummy with a baby just like him"... because Alan Ahlberg is that baby, and he was adopted during the war, and that's his adoptive family, and I'm actually welling up again now just thinking about it...

mrskbpw · 21/01/2011 14:38

I did not know that about Alan Ahlberg. Oh man, now I'm welling up at my desk. I love Peepo.

gandtplease · 21/01/2011 14:53

I have two books like that. "I forgot to say I love you" and Sophie and the New Baby". Think they are heading to the charity shop.

Panzee · 21/01/2011 17:40

Oh no Captain Nancy I didn't know that about Alan Ahlberg. I'm properly wailing now!

VictoriousBeckham · 21/01/2011 18:14

I'm not sure about the mother crawling about on the floor to get at the baby - looks like some kind of Japanese ghost movie. You wake up and there she is ... scrabbling towards you on all fours with the intention of grabbing you

I do like The Owl Babies though -'And she came' makes me well up.

And when Beckham Child Number one had Charlotte' Web as her school reading book, we both sobbed when we reached the end.

gandtplease · 21/01/2011 21:47

O yes Owl Babies is sad too. I had to read The velveteen rabbit at a wedding. I didn't cry fortunately

PigValentine · 22/01/2011 00:35

When DS1 was about 4 months old, DH had to lead me, wailing, out of Mothercare, after I had picked up Guess How Much I love You.

My (childless but emotional) sister sobs at the end of The Smartest Giant In Town.

But then, recently, I had to go and hide in the loo in Toys R Us after describing to a friend who had never seen Dumbo, the scene where Dumbo's mum puts her trunk through the bars and rocks him...