Sobbing over Charlotte's Web

tammy79 · August 2013

So DD 4 years old picked out Charlotte's Web to read a few weeks ago, we read about 2 chapters/day , well last night we made to chapter 21 ( Last Day), I have been dreading that chapter since she picked out the book, and I even tried to discourage her from reading it, but nope she insisted. It was awful.

She started crying when she heard Charlotte would not make it.

" Oh mommy that's awful, she'll never see her kids", we ugly cried for 30 minutes ;(, she took it a lot harder than I thought she would, I felt so bad for her.

EliStar · August 2013

This book breaks my heart every. single. time.

pinkybooklover09 · August 2013

I didn't cry when I first read Charlotte's Web as a kid, but I cried the first time I read it with my kid.

AshleyT121 · August 2013

This is the exact reason that my beautiful collector's edition of Charlotte's Web sits happily on the shelf, having never been touched.

tammy79 · August 2013

Yep, gets me every time, I also read with DS#1, and we cried, no where near as bad as DD did, I want to wait as long as I can to read with DS#2 ;(.

jackiback · August 2013

It's too sad. It's just too sad.

Read2Me · August 2013

I just read this chapter to DD last night. I choked and sobbed through it and she looked at me like I was crazy. I may be raising a sociopath.

booknerd226 · August 2013

I loved that book when I was little.

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Pebble_Cafe · August 2013

Towards the end of last school year, a 4th grader asked/pleaded with me to read Charlotte's Web to his class. I didn't think we'd have enough time to finish before school ended, but then the teacher said we could share reading it. Her in the class and me during their weekly visits.

I cannot tell you how relieved I was that she read the end. I know I would have cried!