Hello Everyone!
When I was a kid I wasn’t much into reading. It’s wasn’t that I couldn’t read… it was just I didn’t find any of the books I was learning in school to be interesting enough. Due to my disinterest in reading the school books my teachers believed I had a learning disability and put me in a separate reading program where I had to read lower level books. Again, these disinterested me as I was more at a grade 11 reading level then a grade 4 reading level.
One of the books I read was Stone Fox, a book about a boy and his dog. Not usually a story I was interested in but it was short and super quick to read. I don’t remember much about the book but with all boy and his dog books the dog dies, leaving the reader a complete blubbering mess by the end. I am a dog person. I love dogs – heck I love animals. So, whenever an animal dies or is killed in tv, movie, or book format I become worse than a teething two-year-old.
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner was the first book that made me cry. It was also the book that pushed me to bring my very thick historical non-fiction or historical fictions to school so they would stop making me read lower grade books. The teacher’s faces when they gave us free time to read and I – in grade 6 at the time – pulls out Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman, or The Last of the Mohicans, or one of the Little Women Series. You can thank Sarah, Plain and Tall for getting me into wanting to know more about the frontier and America’s early, horribly cruel history. I still have a fascination with old westerners and learning about the early foundations of the US, (Roots and Hell on Wheels).
Now I pass this question on to you – what is the first book that made you cry? Leave your answers in the comments down below. Until next time, remember, stay safe, be creative, and as always toodles! ^.^
January 26, 2017 at 6:05 pm
The first book that made me cry was Jane Eyre when I was 15, such a classic, I’ve always loved the classics!
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January 26, 2017 at 7:23 pm
I love classics. I had the chance to read Jane Eyre when I was studying English in uni. It is a wonderful book. I went through a bit of a Charlotte Brontë phase during my second year. Emma and Villette were also good reads. 🙂
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January 26, 2017 at 6:47 pm
The first I remember clearly is ‘Watership Down’. Tears tears tears…
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January 26, 2017 at 7:23 pm
I haven’t read ‘Watership Down’ but it seems like a book I need to add to my collection. 🙂
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January 27, 2017 at 4:12 am
Oh wow, I haven’t thought about Stone Fox in years! I read that in the fourth grade too and I’m pretty sure it was traumatizing :p My sister and I occasionally think back to the most horrifying books we read as children. Stone Fox is one of mine while hers is Where the Red Fern Grows. We both agree on Island of the Blue Dolphin. I feel like our school district thought sad books built character or something.
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January 27, 2017 at 10:29 am
I have no idea. I went to a Catholic school so most of our books were depressing or sad. Giver, Hatchet, Stone Fox, some Shakespeare, Animal Farm… those are the one’s I remember.
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January 28, 2017 at 1:51 am
Oh, I have cried over countless books, but the one my mom would tell you about is “Where the Red Fern Grows.” I am not a dog person, but my mom would come running into my room when she heard me sobbing late at night, take one look at me and ask, “Why are you reading that book AGAIN?!?” I must have sobbed through that one at least 10 times!
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January 28, 2017 at 12:54 pm
That is like me with the end of Phantom of the Opera or My Dog Skip… those two movies always make me cry. XD
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