there should have been a disclaimer!

[holyhart]

Since my ds is sick and went to bed early, my dd asked if we could finish up the last 2 chapters of Stone Fox instead of the regular family read aloud we are reading before bed. I agreed. I really wish someone had told me what a tear jerker ending it had! Goodness, there I was trying to read it to her and blubbering like a fool! I had to stop multiple times to try and gather myself! Hubby was laughing at me (I cry easy at almost EVERYthing!)

I read it many years ago as a child myself. I remember liking it, but apparently did not recall the ending. Evelyn and I both really enjoyed it (dispite the ending) and just gave some extra lovings on our Maggie-girl (our dog). Teasing aside, it was a truly great book.

[John'smom]

We too were all shocked by the ending. My ds loved the book so much that he wanted to send the author his letter he wrote in his DITHOR project. I tried to look up his address, and found that the author had already passed away. I sent his wife and e-mail and unfortuntaely we haven't had a response. Good book though.

[Daph]

Wow, thank you! This is the type of thing I need. If I read this to my daughter, she would be beside herself for days!

[holyhart]

I didn't mean to imply that we didn't like the book! On the contrary, we LOVED the book, we were just not prepared for the tear-jerker ending! Ok, maybe I should say I was not prepared for the ending ...I am one of those girls who cry at coffee commercials...you know the ones where the son/brother comes home from serving oversea somewhere or somthing? If someone else crys in a movie, forget it, I'm done. I cry in songs like "I'll be home for Christmas". Can't even handle it. My hubby picks on me all the time about this. When we were dating (12-ish years ago) he took me to see Armageddon in the Theaters (maybe we were newly weds??? Don't remember when it came out). Anyway, he says I am the only person alive who can be blubbering in an action/thriller movie.

If your daughter is very sensitive though, she might have a hard time with the ending.

Even if I'd had a warning...I would totally have still cried....that's just me. But usually I can tell something is coming...I completely missed this one! It really, really is a great book though!!!

[Daph]

Oh, I'm the same way! And I watched a movie on netflix the other night that had me sobbing like I knew the people in it. It was terrible. My husband makes fun of me, too. XD

[Cherylanne]

I cry easy too at stuff like that too but to add to the problem my eyes are swollen for the next 24 hours! I have to really watch when I see a sad movie.

[moedertje]

We too loved this book, I don't cry to easy, but I can so see that one would be a sobbing mess at the end