s/o - Which children's book makes you cry?

[purpleeyes]

Max Lucado's The Crippled Lamb

[Tenasparkl]

My dad got me On the Night You Were Born when DD was born. I read it after we'd been discharged and sobbed, but in a good way.

I can't get through this without sobbing. We also have a book that Billy Crystal wrote for his about-to-be-born grandchild that I think is called I Already Know I Love You that gets me very time.

[BDKmom]

Is it terrible that I can't make it through "I Love You, Stinkyface"? That book gets me, but in a way that I love. As opposed to "I'll Love You Forever," which is just too sad for me to think about. I have read it all on one time.

On the Night You Were Born also gets me a little, but I think it's beautiful.

[turtledove]

Knuffle Bunny Free

I thought I was the only one!

[KHF]

I was sure I was the only nutcase to cry over Knuffle Bunny Free... My DD looked up at me and said, "Mom, are you crying over the book? Really?"

[cagey]

All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon.

[legaleagle]

Mine are more obscure but

The Bog Baby
Miss Rumphius
The Robot and the Bluebird

and plenty of other random lines in other books but I can usually keep it together for those. I was never a cryer pre-DC either.

[jse107]

Knuffle Bunny Free

Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[Momit]

There are so many:
Guess How Much I Love You
The Velveteen Rabbit
Charlotte's Web
Wherever You Are, My Love Will Find You
Of thee I Sing (Barack Obama's children's book)
Someday, Always, and Little Boy by Alison McGhee

Clearly I am a complete sap.

[♥ms.pacman♥]

The Lorax, "unless" gets me every freaking time.

me too. i love that quote though.

the worst though is American Tail.... we bought an American Tail book, the original (printed in 1986) from ebay, since DS is obsessed with that movie. It's not the picture book, it's more like a novel-style (for 6-7yos to read) with just a few pictures in it. i cannot make it through the scene where Fievel falls overboard into the sea. What gets me is how they describe Papa's reaction, like "Papa fell to the ground, feelling like heart felt like it was going to explode into a million pieces" etc. I always start crying. And of course DS always barks "KEEP READING!!", the little Sheldon Cooper that he is (DD will give me a hug and say "it's okay, Mommy.")DH can read it, but I cannot. I can read everything else (and i love to do the latter part as I love doing the voices, eg. Tony Toponi, etc) but for that part, i will often ask DH to read it.

I guess the thing that gets me about it is all, is this used to be one of my favorite movies as a kid. Now that I have kids i see it so differently.It makes me think of how many people risked everything to come to America, and then to lose one of the most precious things (your child) in the process is just, i don't know, unimaginably tragic..yet i'm sure it happened to thousands during that time, almost a common occurrence....i guess in some sense it is the American story.