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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/YaDrunkBitch on 2026-02-01 17:45:27+00:00.
We go to the library every other week. Like all 5 year olds, my daughter looked at the cover of a book, liked it, and wanted to check it out.
I don't remember what the book was called, something like "I Remember You". I didn't even clock it. The cover just had a boy and his dog.
At bed time, I start reading and everything seems fine.
The family gets a puppy, and every summer they go to a family beach house for 2 weeks, and the dog loves it there. He has a special tree at the beach house that he always sleeps under.
There's so many little tangents in the book that just make you love the dog that much more.
Then it starts talking about how the dogs old now, and how he doesn't run around at the beach anymore, he just lays under his favorite tree.
And then.... The dog dies. And the next trip to the beach house is them sprinkling his ashes around his favorite tree.
I couldn't. I choked up while reading this stupid wonderful book. I look at my daughter and her eyes are huge and full of tears. I asked her if she wanted me to keep reading. She said it was fine. But after we finished she needed a good cuddle because it was so sad.
I left my daughter's room and husband noticed I had been crying and asked what's wrong. I threw the book at him and told him to read it. And yeah, he cried too. So now the house is sad over a dog from a book that I should have preread before checking out.
TL;DR: skim through the books your young children want to read, so not to cause unnecessary trauma.