Which children's stories provoke emotion in you?

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The first time I read the snail and the whale to my two year old, I cried.

The one year old went down quickly tonight so I've just sat in my bedroom listening to Dh read it to the two year old. Again, tears.

Something about how such a tiny snail puts such effort into saving his friend. He's just a little snail but he cares about his friend and found a way.

Also heartwarming to hear my dyslexic Dh, who hates reading out loud, to read to my eldest ds

'There's a boy in the girl's bathroom' has me blubbing at the end.

Most Michael Morpurgo books! I'm tired of feeling traumatized by them so I refuse to read them now!

There's a Tracy Beaker story where she's meant to have been in the Christmas show but she gets in a fight and is told she can't perform. Her meltdown has me crying.

As for picture books, the one that's already been mentioned about the mum taking her little one on a late night walk to the beach certainly provokes emotion. I always worry that the mum's been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Why else would you wake your small child late at night and go on a random adventure?

Has anyone read 'In the middle of the night'?

www.amazon.co.uk/Middle-Night-Kathy-Henderson/dp/0744531438/ref=sr_1_17?s=gateway&keywords=in+the+middle+of+the+night&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1558822141&sr=8-17

It's lovely I think. Poetry involving a baby being born on the same night an old person dies. Kind of 'circle-of-lifey' and stuff.

Cool, by Michael Morpurgo, about a boy in a coma

I'm so glad other people have said The Paper Dolls, my DH just doesn't understand why it makes me so emotional.

We also read the Mog books, and I haven't heard of Goodbye Mog, if it's about what I think it is, I don't think I can handle it!

The little match girl.

So glad it's not just me!
The Little Match Girl (even talking to people about the story has me welling up! I was v close to my Gran as a child and the last bit just breaks my heart. This poor girl has had such a miserable life, sees these wonderous sites in the glow of the matches she sells, and then dies on New Year's Eve as she goes into the arms of her dead Grandmother......)
Paper Dolls (again kind grandmothers and a little girl)
The Big, Big Sea (never bothered me until I had my dd)
And I think Charlotte's Web was the first book I read that I cried at reading it as a kid)

So glad it's not just me!
The Little Match Girl (even talking to people about the story has me welling up! I was v close to my Gran as a child and the last bit just breaks my heart. This poor girl has had such a miserable life, sees these wonderous sites in the glow of the matches she sells, and then dies on New Year's Eve as she goes into the arms of her dead Grandmother......)
Paper Dolls (again kind grandmothers and a little girl)
The Big, Big Sea (never bothered me until I had my dd)
And I think Charlotte's Web was the first book I read that I cried at reading it as a kid)

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