Do you cry whilst reading to the children?

The Dear Grandma Miffy book makes me bite my lip and take a breath.

As does the first world war book Ginger and something.

Oh yeah, The Selfish Giant. (Actually reading thread now.)
I'm new to it, and I wasn't expecting it to do that to me!

I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I can't stop myself sobbing every time I get to the last line of "Guess how much I love you". Sometimes before, because I know what's coming.
I must have read it 100's of times, but it never fails.
Don't think DD has noticed.
There are others, but I forget.

'Guess How much i love You' and 'I forgot to Say I love you'. I fill up everytime and we have had the books for years.

My nephew brought one of his books a few wks ago for me to read when he came to stay.'Some dogs do'. How the hell he didnt notice i was crying i will never know. How touching is that book.

Also whenever i read A.A.Milne's Vespers as it reminds me of my own mother reading it when my sister and I were children.

Amazing Grace - I defy anyone with a young daughter not to have a real lump in the throat after that one

Tiger who came to tea - "but he never did" - gets me now!

My dd1 (3.10) likes me to sing her an ABBA medley instead of a lullaby.

I am to say when I get to "And when you get the chaaance, you are the dancing queen, young and sweet only 17" ... reminds me too sharply of my own youth (though I was never sweet and am a crap dancer). DD1 boogies and twirls on, ignoring her idiot mother.

Pathetic

Mabana, thanks for reminding me of the childs garden of verse.

that first one is so sad and atmospheric.

This www.amazon.co.uk/Someday-Alison-McGhee/dp/1847380883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227478028&sr=8- 1 ...

I'm so glad I'm not the only nutter who gets choked up over a child's book. My list is

Papa Panov's Special Day
Angel Mae by Shirley Hughes
Guess how much I love you
The legend of the Christmas stocking

Love Peepo but it makes me smile a lot, which is better than sobbing! I'm looking forward to reading the classics to my DDs like the Railway Children and a Little princess. But know I will be a gibbering wreck.

I have to hand The Selfish Giant over to my dh to read the last paragraph and quickly walk out of the room. Another one I is Baboushka about an old Russian lady who is invited by the 3 wise men to go and see Jesus, but follows on too late. The "further on Baboushka" at the end does it for me every time. I must have a thing about religious stories. Oscar Wilde has written some other real tear jerkers too. Luckily ds isn't quite old enough for them yet.

Think I'm going to get dds to read A Little Princess on their own when they're older...

Whenever I read the bit about Impunity Jane cracking with a broken heart I am in a mess... starting to blub just thinking about it! Bloody Rumer Godden!

Reading any book to my dds which used to be a favourite from my childhood makes me cry - as with hearing songs and doing things with my dds that I used to love when I was little... there's something about seeing them experience things that used to mean a lot to me.

Nobody's Fool... I love this song, but can only sing the first verse...after that I am a mess, which is a shame because I can play the guitar quite well. I learnt this tune ten years ago, to teach some children, and have never been able to hold myself together to teach it.

The Velveteen Rabbit - a Christmas story gets to me too.

Anything involving bereavement (Badger's parting gifts), or loss of ability. I know it's because it opens the cracks in my emotions!

i LOVE the illustrations in Let's Get A Pup, too

Oh my goodness - The Selfish Giant!! I practically had to be ventilated the first time I read it to my dcs.

this reduces my dh to tears and this just breaks my heart.

Can't BELIEVE the Big Big Sea is out of print!

same as dizzymac

(Are you related to KatyMac?)

The Selfish Giant gets me every time. Even dh experienced a bit of 'moistening' around the eyes when he read it to dd.

Forgotten 'Let's Get a Pup' does me too.....
But ending!

The Selfish Giant every time. I have just read it to DD (6) for the 1st time in many years and although I knew it would get me, I was really surprised at just how beautiful it is.

My ds was so deeply shocked and devastated at the end of Charlotte's Web that he a/cried his eyes out b/insisted I write a new happy ending, type it out and sellotape it into the book and c/put the book on a very high shelf so he could never accidentally read it again. He was six at the time.

"Nothing" was my main one too.

This was while I was nannying. Now I am pregnant and it's worse. I bought "Sharing a Shell" by Julia Donaldson as a goodbye present for my little charge on my last day before starting maternity leave and I was in PIECES.

this one - just like you by jan fearnley - gets me every time

www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Like-You-Jan-Fearnley/dp/1405218878/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books& qid=1227438151&sr=8-2

Let's Get A Pup

Blub-a-rama

Oh no RumMum, now you've set me off.

Love you for always by Robert Munsch makes me want to sob...

heres an explanation from his website

Love You Forever started as a song.

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my baby you'll be."

I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. The song was my song to my dead babies. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn't even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn't sing.

heres a www.robertmunsch.com/books.cfm?bookid=40link to his page you can download him reading it