fdrinca Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The post about crying at the end of House at Pooh Corner made me curious what gets the waterworks flowing for others. My reliable tears list: City Dog, Country Frog (Mo Willems) The Clown of God (Tomie DePaola) Charlotte's Web (some guy...wrote a style manual...) Junkyard Wonders (Patricia Polacco) The Rag Coat (Lauren Mills) I also remember crying big, sobbing, ugly tears at the end of Prayer for Owen Meany and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. I woke DH up with the latter; he found my crying in the bathroom. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Velveteen Rabbit Farfallina and Marcel (child's picture book) Of Mice and Men Flowers for Algernon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I cried at the ending of A Tale of Two Cities. I didn't expect that. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaneEyre Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Velveteen Rabbit Where the Red Fern Grows The Little Match Girl 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El... Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Last Battle The Jesus Storybook Bible Charlotte's Web 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalsummer Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I don't usually cry more than once at a book, but these made me cry the first time: Velveteen Rabbit (I could cry just thinking about it when I was a kid) Tale of Two Cities Never Let Me Go Passage (Connie Willis) Left Hand of Darkness (Le Guin) Fionovar Trilogy (in the middle - I was a teenager, what can I say) The Lantern Bearers (Sutcliff) Son (Lowry) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 This is so pathetic, but the note at the end of Knuffle Bunny Free makes me cry every time. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) I know some people detest this book, but the ending of I'll Love you Forever makes me cry, but I've never actually read the book. What I mean is that I was somewhere at a concert and someone put the words to that book to music. I thought it was a song and didn't know it was a book for years. But the song had such a gentle melody that it just makes you weep at the ending. Actually, the song was a mixture of melody and straight reading. That melody! That son carrying his old, dead mama! Makes me tear up right now thinking about it. ETA: I just went to Youtube to see if I could find the song and there's one out there, but it's not the song I heard. The one on youtube has a goofy melody. The one I heard was really pretty. Edited March 23, 2016 by Garga 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggie96 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Charlotte's Web Velveteen Rabbit Where the Red Fern Grows Old Yeller Winds of War and War and Remembrance The Book Thief The Nightingale There are others, but these are at the top of my head. I won't "assign" the kids Red Fern or Yeller because I can't discuss with them, just too incredibly sad. I especially hate the death of animals. Or discarded toys. Toy Story 3 chokes me up before I utter the name out loud. My kids think I'm nuts. :) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Gosh, lots of books. Practically all the award-bait books they print for children - Terebithia, Gilly Hopkins, Roxaboxen (waterworks, I swear)... all of it. Even books that are supposed to be funny make me tear up sometimes. I cry at the end of Pippi Longstocking, because I keep thinking that in the real world, that would be a bittersweet ending, poor Pippi all alone. I mean, honestly! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) Toy Story 3 chokes me up before I utter the name out loud. For me, it's Lilo and Stitch. What sort of monsters abandon a little baby? Just because he doesn't know how to act! Well, of course Stitch didn't, he was a baby, but nobody was willing to teach him! And then he goes out to find his real family, like the Ugly Duckling and... omg. I bawl. Edited March 23, 2016 by Tanaqui 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NatureMomma Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Roxoboxen every single time. Bridge to Teribithia, where the Red fern Grows 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) It's like we're twins, NatureMomma! Except I never even read Red Fern. I took one look at that synopsis when I was ten and noped that book right back on the shelf. No, no, no. Ooh, Letters From the Inside is another one. Just re-read it the other day. Why did I do that? Edited March 23, 2016 by Tanaqui 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Oh, Terebithia. That did make me bawl when I read it with the kids last year. I don't reread books so often anymore but anything in new books can set me off. Ds is reading The War That Saved My Life and there's a bit about Dunkirk in there and it made me cry a bunch. Ds was like, good grief, what's your problem! Lately the thing that makes me cry is every time we get to "It's Quiet Uptown" in Hamilton I get weepy. Other ds does too sometimes. He likes to be sad. He cried a bunch for Terebithia too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prairie Dawn Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Bear That Heard Crying Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express Balto Roxaboxen Picture books seem to get to me more for some reason... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Dragonquest, by Anne McCaffrey. Every time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne in CA Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Velveteen Rabbit The Little Match Girl The Little Mermaid (the real one, not the Disney movie) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 All of them. Sad endings make me cry. Happy endings make me cry. Reunions make me cry, and thoughtful gestures and, well, pretty much anything. I am a sap. Ds's say, "Mom, are you crying again?" when I read aloud to them and have to pause. Of course I answer, "Noooooooo!" but sliding up into tea kettle range toward the end of the "No" kind of gives me away. I don't know how I made it through the ending of Where the Red Fern Grows. Wait. I do, I think. I handed the book to eldest ds. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Goodnight Mister Tom. I cry every single time I read that book :crying: :crying: :crying: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I have cried with a few, but can't remember titles. However, we have a 9/11 that we read, well...every 9/11, and it gets me, every time. Specially when it mentions about the folks calling their loved ones before one of the planes went down... Just thinking about it makes me teary eyed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outdoorsy Type Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 It's rare for me to cry during a movie, reading a book silently, or listening to audio. If I am the one reading out loud I will cry at everything. E.ver.y.thing. I cried the most reading: Nana Upstairs/Nana Downstairs Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Cheaper By The Dozen On my own I probably cried the most reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistyMountain Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 There are several Patricia Polacco books that make me cry. Junkyard Wonders is one of them. Charlotte's Web Harry Potter There are many more books that make me tear up and have to pause. I have not read Old Yeller or a where the Red Fern Grows to my kids yet but I know those would be hard. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistyMountain Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 This is so pathetic, but the note at the end of Knuffle Bunny Free makes me cry every time. That one gets me too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elfknitter.# Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Some of Palacco's stuff. Most recently Tucky Jo and Little Heart. Welcome Comfort for sure. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 It's rare for me to cry during a movie, reading a book silently, or listening to audio. If I am the one reading out loud I will cry at everything. E.ver.y.thing. I cried the most reading: Nana Upstairs/Nana Downstairs Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Cheaper By The Dozen On my own I probably cried the most reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. I'm not a crier, but Edward Tulane did me in several times over. I cried the entire last quarter of the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medawyn Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) Jacob Have I Loved - I read it at just the right/wrong time in my tween years, and I can still remember that feeling. Where the Red Fern Grows - I used to read it aloud to my classroom, and I would start crying before the sad parts. The kids all thought I was nuts, but the next day we would all have tissues. I have teared up at many the first time through, but those are my usual reread cries. We'll see when I start reading aloud something more interesting than "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" to my kids. Now, if I NEED a good, cathartic cry, I'll pop in Steel Magnolias. I cry every. single. time. Edited March 23, 2016 by HOPE_Academy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happypamama Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Last Battle The Jesus Storybook Bible Charlotte's Web Oh, goodness, yes to all three of those! I can't read anything without crying, especially if I'm reading out loud. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikslo Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I don't know about always, as I only read it once, but The Art of Racing in the Rain made me cry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The end of Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm gets me every single time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The only one I can think of is There's a Wocket in my Pocket. I have no idea why, but the last page gets me. Actual sad stuff doesn't affect me at all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Chestry Oak, by Kate Seredy. I start crying in the first chapter, and I cry all the way through the book. Sometimes I cry the ugly cry. I love that book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entropymama Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Clown of God by Tommie de Paola. I have read that book no less than 30 times to my kids and I still cry every. single. time. The Railway Children. The Wheel on the School. Probably 70% of our read aloud books. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Marley- we listened to the audio book about a year before our elderly dog died. Someday- children's book about watching your child grow up. The Long Winter- when Pa hacks into the wall to steal the hidden food The Velveteen Rabbit- it reminds me of my son and his Dinosaur 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJosMom Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Little Prince. :crying: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Dd and I both say: Watership Down 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim in Appalachia Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 There are so many, but off the top of my head I can think of a few; Charlotte's Web. This is probably my all time favorite audio book. We have listened to it over and over and I still cry. The Little Match Girl. With this one I sob uncontrollably. I can remember at least one child laughing just a little at me crying so hard. :D Thee, Hannah (most of De Angeli's books tend to tear me up, but I openly weep with this one) Carry on, Mr Bowditch. I have read that aloud 3 times, and listened to it on audio at least twice. I always cry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Dagnabit this thread is making me tear up just reading the titles of some of the books that made me sad... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plansrme Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The last chapter of The Friendly Persuasion, i.e., Homer and the Lilies. First book that ever made me cry, and it still will if I pull it off of the shelf. Birchbark House, when the little boy dies of smallpox, and they talk about the older sister's friend, who had also died of smallpox, walking him to heaven because he's too little to go by himself. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Charlotte's Web Sounder Freedom Train I know there are others. My biggest cry ever was when I read Eric as a teen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I think the most upset I ever got was over a short story about two kids (maybe preteens or upper elementary?) and their beloved pet dog getting in a boat and heading out into rough waters. I was maybe 13. A big storm rolls in. The kids get into serious trouble and their boat is in danger of capsizing. Because of a legend about some famous pirate whose ghost would let you live if you sacrificed someone, they toss their dog overboard. They make it to shore. When his collar washes up on shore a few days later they take that to mean that his spirit is now on board the pirate ship and he is happy. No. No he isn't. He is dead. You murdered him. Poor Mom had to comfort me for days after that stupid story. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnE-girl Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I can't get through reading a Before You were Born to my kids without getting teary. They always ask what's wrong with me. Birth makes me happy cry. The Crippled Lamb gets me too. Really any books about the birth of Jesus. When I was a young teenager, Rilla of Ingleside (the last Anne book, for anyone who hasn't read the whole series) made me cry more than any other book. Just typing this and thinking of the chapter "Little Dog Monday Knows" and Dog Monday's reaction when Jem finally comes home is getting me all choked up. Can you tell I've read it many times? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Some of Palacco's stuff. Most recently Tucky Jo and Little Heart. Welcome Comfort for sure. Oh yes! I cry like a baby when when read An Orange for Frankie at Christmas. My mother was so mean - she laughed at me about it and then was like, stop reading your children such depressing and bad books. Sigh. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Charlotte's Web. It's so bad I can't get through certain parts. Where the Red Fern Grows. I read that book in 6th grade and never forgot it. But it was such a tear jerker that I never chose it for my kids. I don't want to read it again. I'm drawing a blank regarding other books. I cry over books a lot so the question that might be easier to answer is which books don't make me cry. LOL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theelfqueen Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I can't get through reading a Before You were Born to my kids without getting teary. They always ask what's wrong with me. Birth makes me happy cry. The Crippled Lamb gets me too. Really any books about the birth of Jesus. When I was a young teenager, Rilla of Ingleside (the last Anne book, for anyone who hasn't read the whole series) made me cry more than any other book. Just typing this and thinking of the chapter "Little Dog Monday Knows" and Dog Monday's reaction when Jem finally comes home is getting me all choked up. Can you tell I've read it many times? I cry for Matthew, Joyce and Walter... every time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kentuckymom Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) Lots of books make me cry, but I remember in a particular a stretch of about 2 years when Squirrelboy was obsessed with the Titanic but no a strong reader so I had to read every children's book about the Titanic we could find to him. I cried when I read about all those people dying every.single.time. Squirrelboy did not understand. He kept asking, "Why are you crying, Mom?" Don't get me wrong. He knew it was a tragedy. He thought it was sad. He just didn't think it was worth bawling over. Sure I know it happened over a hundred years ago and there have been much worse tragedies in the world, but so many things were done wrong in that particular disaster that could easily have been changed and saved so many people it makes me sad and angry every single time I read about it. Just thinking about Bridge to Terabithia can make me cry, and any book where the dog dies makes me cry. I cry over happy endings sometimes, too. ETA: How could I forget Matthew, Joyce, and Walter? I even cry sometimes when I read about Walter as a child, knowing what's going to happen to him. Edited March 23, 2016 by kentuckymom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 A Clown of God The Giving Tree Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect Bridge to Terabithia Stone Fox Where the Red Fern Grows A Little Princess The Little Match Girl Tuck Everlasting Jane Eyre 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistyMountain Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) Lots of books make me cry, but I remember in a particular a stretch of about 2 years when Squirrelboy was obsessed with the Titanic but no a strong reader so I had to read every children's book about the Titanic we could find to him. I cried when I read about all those people dying every.single.time. Squirrelboy did not understand. He kept asking, "Why are you crying, Mom?" Don't get me wrong. He knew it was a tragedy. He thought it was sad. He just didn't think it was worth bawling over. Sure I know it happened over a hundred years ago and there have been much worse tragedies in the world, but so many things were done wrong in that particular disaster that could easily have been changed and saved so many people it makes me sad and angry every single time I read about it. Just thinking about Bridge to Terabithia can make me cry, and any book where the dog dies makes me cry. I cry over happy endings sometimes, too. ETA: How could I forget Matthew, Joyce, and Walter? I even cry sometimes when I read about Walter as a child, knowing what's going to happen to him. My ds went through a titanic phase too where he wanted me to read him every book on it and it did make me cry when it got to the part about the people dying. Ds also understood the tragedy. He wished more survived but he did not get the crying and would demand I keep reading when I had to pause. Edited March 23, 2016 by MistyMountain 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILiveInFlipFlops Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) Oh, this thread is making me cry! Love You Forever (I know, I know), Dog Monday howling at the train station and Walter in Flanders and little Joyce--every single time. I also did the long, loud, ugly cry through the end of Number the Stars. Oh my word. And Steel Magnolias!!! Sally Field after the funeral... That movie made me cry when I was a teen, but the first time I saw it again after having kids? No words. And Stepmom too. Before kids, I thought it was a sappy, kind of trite movie. Then one year DH took the kids to his mother's house and left me to have time to myself on Mother's Day, and they were showing "mom-type" movies on Channel 11, and I watched Stepmom again, but with a whole new perspective. Oh, and at the end of My Own Heart's Blood, the most recent Outlander book. Three times now, and I know what's coming. "Hello the house!" Sobs. I cry at pretty much everything now, including sappy commercials. But these are the worst. Edited March 23, 2016 by ILiveInFlipFlops 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 I Love You Like Crazy Cakes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 Charlotte's Web Sounder Freedom Train I know there are others. My biggest cry ever was when I read Eric as a teen. I couldn't remember the name of that book. Yes, I remember crying over it too. My copy had this cover. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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