Boys Do Cry is a book showcasing how boys experience different emotions, and encourages normalizing those experiences for them, to support healthy emotional development. Join Shiloh as he is faced with friends who tell him that boys don't cry, after he hurts himself on the playground. With every feeling he has, his classmate Jacob is right there telling him how it's not for boys. Shiloh doesn't understand how his feelings are not for him and he explores this with Jacob and his best friend Khalil. He shares all of the feelings he's familiar with and is curious about what happens if he were to ignore them.