I should have known better than to read this book today.....

[Kteacher]

I always get a little teary any way whenever I read " I Love You Forever" by Robert Munsch. At the end of the school year I read it to my kindergarteners, except I change the last verse the mom sings to her son to
" ....as long as I'm living

Your teacher I'll be"


Of course as I'm reading the story to the kids I start thinking about my son Ian and how he looked in the hospital last week , and I start getting tearier and tearier. This book just always gets to me (okay, I'll admit it, I'm tearing up now) Does this book get to anyone else?

 

[depplyinluv]

PD and :hugs!!!

I can't say that i've ever heard of it, but now that you have mentioned it i might just borrow it from the library

 

[cynsaun]

I'm tearing up, too! It's such a sweet book! I was reading it to my daughter last week while we were waiting for the doctor and, of course, I started to get teary and my daughter looked at me like I was nuts.

She was fixated the picture of the kid sitting on the bathroom floor next to the toilet, playing with toilet paper! I think she is going to grow up to be a proctologist! LOL!

 

[tassie42]

I can't read this book out loud without crying! I read it in the book store a long time ago and decided not to buy it because I knew if my kids asked me to read it I wouldn't be able to. Another book like this is THE POLAR EXPRESS did you ever read that one? I guess I'm just sappy but I had to hide that one cause I always cry at the end!

 

[minmate]

I have little kids -- so I feel kind of bad about my opinion here, but I've always felt that book was sweet, until it got to the part where they climb into the window -- kinda creepy for me... sorry! Why does that seem to bother me and nobody else... everyone Iknow loves that book--- am I not getting it?

 

[KathyTX]

Oh, my gosh- you just brought back a flood of memories!

My DS's Kindergarten teacher (several years ago) taught all the kids a little skit to that book, and had them all sing the "love you forever part"... in those sweet little voices... to all the moms!

I just cried like a baby... "forever my mommy you'll be...."

 

[cynsaun]

Originally posted by minmate
I have little kids -- so I feel kind of bad about my opinion here, but I've always felt that book was sweet, until it got to the part where they climb into the window -- kinda creepy for me... sorry! Why does that seem to bother me and nobody else... everyone Iknow loves that book--- am I not getting it?

Actually, that part kind of creeps me out too!

 

[Kteacher]

minmate, I usually skip that page when I'm reading it to my class. My first kindergarten clas will be sixth graders next year, and they still come up to me and say things like " remember when we did this, or how you used to make pancakes for snack for us" And I will have to admit that I keep all the pictures they've drawn for me. My all time favorite is a picture of me with wheels instead of legs Now I'm going to get verklempt again I almost lost it again this afternoon - once a week I read Junie B. Jones to the class and give them homemade chocolate chip cookies. They lay on the meeting rug with their rest time pillows while I read to them. I started thinking about only having 3 more chances to read and have cookies with them this year Sorry about the long post, I always get sentimental at the end of the school year.

 

[tassie42]

kteacher, you sound like a nice teacher!

 

[KarenC]

Originally posted by tassie42
I can't read this book out loud without crying! I read it in the book store a long time ago and decided not to buy it because I knew if my kids asked me to read it I wouldn't be able to. Another book like this is THE POLAR EXPRESS did you ever read that one? I guess I'm just sappy but I had to hide that one cause I always cry at the end!

I LOVE the Polar Express. Every Christmas I pull out a basket of Christmas picture books. Now my kids are 16 and 18 so the books don't get read very much--maybe in 10 years or so there will be grandchildren to read them. However, my now 16 year old son still insists that I read him Polar Express on Christmas night.

About 4 years ago, while I was reading to him, he fell asleep with his head in my lap. For the longest time I'd lamented how good it felt when your kids fell asleep on you and how sad I was that I didn't relish the moment the last time mine did. Well I was pretty sure it wasn't going to happen again, since my baby was 12, and I thought that was the best Christmas gift I'd ever received.

 

[cynsaun]

Originally posted by Kteacher
minmate, I usually skip that page when I'm reading it to my class. My first kindergarten clas will be sixth graders next year, and they still come up to me and say things like " remember when we did this, or how you used to make pancakes for snack for us" And I will have to admit that I keep all the pictures they've drawn for me. My all time favorite is a picture of me with wheels instead of legs Now I'm going to get verklempt again I almost lost it again this afternoon - once a week I read Junie B. Jones to the class and give them homemade chocolate chip cookies. They lay on the meeting rug with their rest time pillows while I read to them. I started thinking about only having 3 more chances to read and have cookies with them this year Sorry about the long post, I always get sentimental at the end of the school year.

Ok, people, she's verklempt, let me give you a topic!


But, in all seriousness, you do sound like a fantastic teacher!

 

[cabmom]

When there was a thread running on "do we know anyone famous", my reference is this book. My neighbor is the illustrator of the book. Her name is Sheila McGraw. She has signed the book for me when I've asked!

I always cry when I read the book and everyone looks at me like I'm a sap!

 

[Tinkbell]

I read it to my class once and that was it for me! I just cant' get through that one with dry eyes and I don't even have kids of my own. So, that's one book I have to refrain from sharing with the class.

I hope everything is ok with your son.

 

[Boo'sMom]

yep..that book always makes me cry.
Polar Express...yup...that one too.
How about Guess How Much I Love You?



Great..my kids fondest memories of me reading to them are going to be me crying.....

 

[Sandy51]

The first time I read that book to students, I couldn't finish it. I had to stop and wait until I could speak without breaking up.

Sandy

 

[jwsqrdplus2]

Those books kill me too! I cannot read "I Love You Forever." My MIL bought it for us, adn she tried to read it to my DD (her DGD) one night. After she finished story time she came out and was bawling over that book. She actually apologized for sending to me!

 

[HugsForEeyore]

Oh! I think I know the book you are talking about - the one with the baby on front with the toilet paper! If this is the book, I absolutely start bawling on the page when the "child" - now a full grown middle-aged father - takes his eldery ill mother in his arms in the chair ... - I already feel the tears starting!!

I'm amazed if anyone can read through without a tear or two!

 

[KimRaye]

Originally posted by Kteacher
once a week I read Junie B. Jones to the class and give them homemade chocolate chip cookies.

OT, but I wanted to thank you for mentioning this. My K-DD is soo into Junie, we have a LOT of her books and, I thought her Kteacher must think me awful for letting her read these bratty-girl books but, I like them! She's quite funny, actually.

I've always known you were a great Kteacher!

And, back on track....I can honestly say I've never read the book. Two kids, never read it. I think that's the book Joey read to Emma on Friends, tho. Isn't it?

 

[AmazingGrace]

The Author of Junie B. has written this other book called Mick Harte was here. It's about a girl coming to terms with her brother's death. Her brother died in a bike accident, not wearing ahelmet. The girl would tell all about her brother and how funny he was. This was a book that literally had me laughing one minute and bawling the next. I think it should be mandatory reading for kids who ride bicycles.

 

[newholiday]

yup this book makes me tear up too

hope your son is soon feeling better