I am just horrible with that book. It is one of my favorite children’s boook, and I think I have two copies. I bought it when Rosey Posey was very small. But to this day, I cannot read the whole thing, I always break up and start crying.
It embarrases the heck out of Rosey Posey. She always starts saying “um, Mom…Mom, stop it…” so I had to hide stop reading it. I think she started saying “You are not going to read that book that makes you cry again, are you?”
I am ridiculous because ever since I had kids (not before) I cry very easily. I cry over Publisher’s Clearinghouse Commercials. Well, I was always silly, but I got worse after having children. Hormones.
This year we are doing Five in A Row with Fastolph, and Clown of God is on the reading list.FIAR I think is widely toted as a homeschooling resource, but I do not think it is limited to home schooling. It is a lot of fun and doesn’t take too much time, so I think it would be an equally great school supplemental.
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I don’t cry much so my children have been appalled when I burst into tears during a few poems that we have studied. (Two that come to mind are The Gifford Girl by a Fr. Feeney and Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field.) I think they were frightened the first time it happened. Now the kids will flip the page if they happen to see Little Boy Blue in any anthology we are looking through. It’s just too traumatic to watch mom put her head down on the school table and weep.
PS – it is great to have you ladies back! 🙂
I gave “Clown of God” to my godson when it first came out, years ago, and his dad couldn’t make it through it without breaking down. Powerful stuff.
It’s “You Are Special”, by Max Lucado and “I Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch that do it to me. Seriously, I’ve tried like heck to NOT sob uncontrollably whilst reading these books and I CAN NOT do it! I read “Our Only May Amelia” to my (then)9 year old and I couldn’t stop crying and had to stop reading it for a little while because it got her crying, too! I don’t cry easily but these books don’t just tug at your heartstrings, they yank your heart out right through your toes!