Beautiful lines from children's books

Oh dear. Now I'm weeping too much to go to bed.

Today is Mother's Day in Italy. This morning DS age 5 woke me with these words which he had memorised at school. There were tears!!
La mamma
Due braccia che m'abbracciano,
due labbra che mi baciano,
due occhi che mi guardano,
e mani che accarezzano
e sento un buon odore
e sento un bel sapore:
la mamma e’ questo per me
e molto altro ancora:
la mamma e’ una dolcissima signora.

Two arms that cuddle me,
Two lips that kiss me,
Two eyes that watch me,
And hands that caress me,
And I smell a lovely scent,
And I taste a lovely taste,
Mummy is this to me,
And much more as well
Mummy is the very sweetest woman.

I was at a wedding where the first reading was from Winnie The Pooh.

Lots and lots of bits from A Little Princess, but i'll go for:

'She almost staggered to the books and opened the one which lay upon the top. Something was written on the flyleaf—just a few words, and they were these:

"To the little girl in the attic. From a friend."

When she saw that—wasn't it a strange thing for her to do—she put her face down upon the page and burst into tears.

"I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend."'

"So here is a very fine crown,
To go with the sandals and gown,
Of the kindest giant in town."

The bit in Moominsummer Madness where Moomintroll has been changed by the Hobgoblin's hat and his friends don't recognise him and are being mean to him. Then Moominmamma comes and looks deep into his frightened eyes and says something like, "Yes you are my Moomintroll and I will always know you".

I bloody love Moominmamma; she is my role model of fantastic mothering.

"When she cuddles him close, he can hear her heart,
And a soft, sudden whoosh as the night train starts,
It pulls out of the station and into the dark,
Filling the world with billows of steam,
Soft see-through clouds that turn into dreams."

From William and the Night Train by Mij Kelly and Alison Jay

I love it, it gets me every time. DS1 has insisted on it at bedtime for three solid years now.

I always used to choke back the tears at "Peepo".

Here's a little baby
One two three
On his way to bed
What did he see?
He sees the landing mirror
With its rainbow rim
And a mummy and a baby
Just like him
He sees the bedroom door
His cot all ready
Daddy kissing him "goodnight",
His ball, and his teddy.

Sob! I don't know why it gets me so much. It really takes me back to very very early memories of my own, how vividly I can remember all the little details of the house where I lived when small. And it makes me remember bedtime with my mum and dad, stories, songs and cuddles.

Sometimes I wish I could go back to that lost world!

These are emotional!

Another who came on to say the ending of no matter what by Debi Gliori.
Read it to my dts at bedtime tonight (again!) as they've been horrid little sods all day, and it always makes me feel like we've made amends. They just think it's hilarious!

"Then we had a baby girl, and things changed. .. there are giants in our house again! " from Once There Were Giants.

Also, the Starting School book always makes me cry. "Then Gavin and Errol and Sophie and Sushma and David and Kate and Robert and Alison go home, and the holiday begins." Really sums up the double life I felt I had as a kid and the duality of my eldest's life now...
the hours away from me when she's so grown up, the huge variety in experiences and people she knows now and the life away from us compared to the safe, small world of "home". Gosh I miss her when she's at school.

Once there were giants and The Big Big Sea.

Both get me everytime. We were given the big big sea by one of my friends. Read it to DD one evening and really found it hard to hold back the waterworks. Told friend she ought to have warned me it was such a tear jerker "remember this time it's the way life should be"

Cross post Girl

Ones that get me every time are- "and then Bella did a very kind thing" from Dogger and the start of Goodbye Mog - "Mog was tired.." I bought that for the DC recently, having avoided it, when our old dog died. They were fine but I sobbed

I can't remember the exact bits but lots of Kensuke's Kingdom is beautiful too- when Michael leaves the island and the bit about his mum refusing to give up on him.

From Dogger - "And then Bella did a very kind thing." I always cry.

Also the Big Big Sea.

Parenthood generally - summed up

Ready love you forever is the whole gamut of human emotion.

Another who can't read the ending of Paper Dolls without welling up. We went as a family to see a puppet version of it & both DH & I were weeping at the end.

Also the last page of Where the Wild Things are: "where he found his dinner waiting for him, and it was still hot."

And the end of There's Going to Be A Baby: "we're going to love the baby, won't we?" with the beautiful illustration of the little boy walking towards his mother's hospital room.

Oh dear, weeping now ...

Just Like You, by Jan Fearnley. It's about Little Mouse and Mama Mouse walking home one evening, and they see various animal parents putting their babies to bed, and when Little Mouse sees what they do for their little ones (digging deep burrows, diving for fish, jumping to catch bugs to eat, etc), he says how special those babies must be. Mama Mouse always tells Little Mouse "Yes, just like you". But by the end Little Mouse is feeling increasingly less special, and is wondering what his mum, a little mouse, could possibly do to match up to all of that. Mama Mouse says: "...even a little mouse can do quite a few things. Let me see..... I'll tell you stories to make you smile. I'll find you nice things to nibble on. I'll play with you and make you laugh. I'll hug you and keep you safe and......when you're naughty I promise I'll be very, very cross with you! But most of all, I promise I will always love you and care for you. And I'll do it with all of my heart".

Oh, bloody hell, I'm off again!! I can't read it to the kids anymore. I just end up blubbering.

Roly. Not Rocky. Autocorrect...

PanannyPanoo - yeah, that one too! cos you got to plant three little kisses on the tips of their noses

Pretty much the whole of Lovely Old Rocky by Michael Rosen. "'I think it's time,' said Mum. We love you, Roly." And that Railway Children line... yes.

There are hundreds in Winnie the Pooh.
'How you you spell love?'
'You don't spell love, you feel it'.

Came on to quote the paper dolls but see others have beaten me to it. So beautiful

My favourite Winnie the Pooh quote:

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, while we were underneath it?
Supposing it didn't, said Pooh, after careful thought.
Piglet was comforted by this.

Oh and, of all unlikely things, Doc McStuffins can make me cry with this song:

When the one that you love is so far away
No matter what it will be okay
All I have to do
When I'm feeling blue
Close my eyes and picture you