--- title: Baby Cries When Mom, Dad Reach Last Page of Books description: Whenever these parents reach the last page of a book this baby starts to cry canonical: https://time.com/4019533/saddest-bookworm-baby-cries-last-page-book/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-01T22:32:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:09.966Z og:title: Baby Cries When His Parents Reach the Last Page of a Book og:description: "This kid really loves his books" og:url: https://time.com/4019533/saddest-bookworm-baby-cries-last-page-book/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb8f1971d7ea9e50/698861ed5f570f8f48b1d34e/screen-shot-2015-09-01-at-6-21-47-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-09-01 at 6.21.47 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Baby Cries When His Parents Reach the Last Page of a Book twitter:description: "This kid really loves his books" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb8f1971d7ea9e50/698861ed5f570f8f48b1d34e/screen-shot-2015-09-01-at-6-21-47-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Baby Cry Every Time His Parents Reach the Last Page of a Book  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 1, 2015 10:32 PM UTC   by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 1, 2015 10:32 PM UTC Michigan parents Dan and Alicia Stevers have uploaded a YouTube video of their 10-month-old son crying when they turn to the last page of various children’s books — such as _Goodnight Moon_ by Margaret Wise Brown and _I Am a Bunny_ by Ole Risom. “Emmett has a mini-meltdown every time we finish a book,” the baby’s father, a video producer, [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/danstevers/status/638052225223401472). “This kid really loves his books.” The youngster’s blue t-shirt that reads “The Snuggle Is Real” is just the icing on the cake. The video racked up nearly 80,000 views by Tuesday evening, prompting Dan Stevers to [tweet](https://twitter.com/danstevers/status/638802481921814528), “This kid may have just started his own college fund.” Read next: [The 100 Best Children’s Books of All Time](http://time.com/100-best-childrens-books/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4019533/saddest-bookworm-baby-cries-last-page-book/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4019533/saddest-bookworm-baby-cries-last-page-book/"},"headline":"Watch a Baby Cry Every Time His Parents Reach the Last Page of a Book","datePublished":"2015-09-01T22:32:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:09.966Z","description":"He's also wearing an adorable shirt","url":"https://time.com/4019533/saddest-bookworm-baby-cries-last-page-book/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Family & Relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb8f1971d7ea9e50/698861ed5f570f8f48b1d34e/screen-shot-2015-09-01-at-6-21-47-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb8f1971d7ea9e50/698861ed5f570f8f48b1d34e/screen-shot-2015-09-01-at-6-21-47-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-09-01 at 6.21.47 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4019533/saddest-bookworm-baby-cries-last-page-book/","name":"Watch a Baby Cry Every Time His Parents Reach the Last Page of a Book"}}]}] ```