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kids books that make you blub?

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puppydavies · 24/05/2008 20:03

dd brought home a reading book from school about a whale who'd just given birth and was so exhausted she was drowning, while the protagonist family watched. i was rather about whether this was appropriate reading for a 5 year old but then burst into tears and couldn't carry on reading

please tell me i'm not alone in crying over kids books. i always get a terrible lump in my throat towards the end of the mousehole cat too. there's definitely something about reading aloud that makes it worse.

i am alone aren't i?

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itwasntme · 24/05/2008 21:14

DD has Nothing too, Whizzz.

I cried the first few times I read it too.

DontCallMeBaby · 24/05/2008 21:12

I can't even read the Amazon description of Goodbye Mog without crying.

Other than that, quite a few, but notably The Velveteen Rabbit, The Mousehole Cat (the fisherman is so heroic, sob) and a book called The Mud Maid that my parents bought DD from the Lost Gardens of Heligan. It makes me cry because I know the gardens are abandoned because all the gardeners have gone off to die in the First World War, of course DD hasn't got a clue why I can't get through the book without sobbing!

janeite · 24/05/2008 21:10

"Good Night Mr Tom" makes me howl. "Nothing" didn't used to make me cry but always brought a lump to my throat.

snickersnack · 24/05/2008 21:04

dd has a book from the US about a mother bear and her cubs swimming across Lake Michigan to escape a forest fire, and the cubs drown and the mother bear sits on the shore and says "I'll wait for you forever, my children" . She is totally unmoved by it.

Goodbye Grandma Bunny (the Miffy one) made my mother cry. I must have a heart of stone as I couldn't stop giggling.

hatrick · 24/05/2008 21:01

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Flamesparro · 24/05/2008 20:58

Dogger

Book of Puff the Magic Dragon too - i started, got half way through and told DD to ask daddy to read the rest

pippylongstockings · 24/05/2008 20:54

Guess how much I love you dispite it's obviousness (is that a word?)

Def the velveteen rabbit but not read it to my children.

Olihan · 24/05/2008 20:45

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's blubbed in the shop!

Pofaces - Two little boys reduces me to tears every time. It was on Radio 2 the other day and I had to turn it off.

Puff the Magic Dragon also makes me well up. When the little boy doesn't go to see him any more.......oh god, I can't even type it!

Nagapie · 24/05/2008 20:44

The Happy Prince

castille · 24/05/2008 20:42

The last story in The House at Pooh Corner, when Pooh and Christopher Robin walk to a Special Place in the woods and talk about CR going off to school and growing up and all that, and all the innocent childhoody stuff comes to an end

Olihan · 24/05/2008 20:42

Goodbye Mog. I read it standing in WHSmith and had tears running down my face. I was quite heavily pg at the time so I had a bit of an excuse but I doubt I could ever read it to the dcs.

fiodyl · 24/05/2008 20:38

In Desperate Housewives I forgot to say

HensMum · 24/05/2008 20:38

The Miffy one where Grandma Bunny dies. sob
And I found myself getting overly emotional at the end of Winnie the Pooh when Christopher Robin is going off to school.

I made my big sister cry on her 30th birthday by giving her the last page of "Big Sister and Little Sister" in a frame. It's a picture book about two sisters that someone gave my sister when I was born and the last page says something like "Little Sister will always look after Big Sister because Big Sister taught her how"

fiodyl · 24/05/2008 20:38

Definatley Goodbye Mog, not read any other sad ones yet but we are still only at the cloth book/lift the flap stage so far, but Im sure I will cry at loads- I cried the other week when Danielle gave her baby to Bree- so I am very soft

deanychip · 24/05/2008 20:36

that book "i like it when..."
it gives me a lump in my throat every time. tis lurvly...

pofaced · 24/05/2008 20:36

Dogger...

even worse, the Rolf Harris song Two Little Boys... and my youngest is 8!

Klaw · 24/05/2008 20:31

Owl Babies

I love you Blue Kangaroo

liath · 24/05/2008 20:30

The velveteen rabbit

MehgaLegs · 24/05/2008 20:28

The Butterfly lion - Michael Morpurgo - when he has to chase the lion cub away - I just couldn't get the words out.

constancereader · 24/05/2008 20:27

I cried in the shop when I read that Mog book, foxinsocks.

LIZS · 24/05/2008 20:27

Charlottes Web, Goodbye Mog, Tatty Ratty

foxinsocks · 24/05/2008 20:26

not much makes me cry but my kids LOVED that Mog series of books and when Mog died...

jingleyjen · 24/05/2008 20:25

Dr seuss Every time.

constancereader · 24/05/2008 20:22

The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

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puppydavies · 24/05/2008 20:21

oh and i just remembered the bit in the baby who wouldn't go to bed where it says "someone who's ever so weary but can't go to bed until the baby does" sometimes caught me unawares w/dd1 who was the worlds worst sleeper for her first 2+ years.

am compiling long list of Books to Avoid at the Library, thankyou

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