Fuck me... Goodbye Mog

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There aren't many children's books which I haven't managed to finish but I cannot get to the end of this one.

Has anyone else read any other tear jerking children's books?

The Little People Big Dreams about Anne Frank always leaves me devastated. Literally can’t read it without crying.

As a child and as an adult I have never been able to read the whole of 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'. But I love and my children have loved 'The Tiger who came to Tea'. I read 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' , DS1 bought me the DVD but I cannot watch it.

I always cry when Charlotte dies in Charlottes Web.

I cry at the end of the Lorax
It used to upset DS so much I added a bit on. It was terrible and didn't rhyme but all the creatures came back and the trees grew so he was happy

'Mog was dead tired...'

It's the only picture book that can make me cry.

Ach, Goodbye Mog gets to me. Lovely ending, though. The other one that I can't read without getting choked up is the Velveteen Rabbit. Proper chin wobbles every time.

frugalkitty I cried hysterically when it was being read in Primary school by the teacher. She was very concerned that I was ill. I still have friends from that era who like to remind me about this from time to time.

Paper dolls always gets me when the lovely granny in the girl's memory is mentioned.

I read one called The Last Chip this week about a hungry pigeon that can’t find any food and then a homeless person gives the pigeon their last chip...! I nearly cried!

I think it's called the Christmas kitten? Makes me weep!

LOL, I remember breaking it to the pimply young guy serving me when I bought the book that Mog snuffed it. He was practically in tears, poor lad.

Quaky Cat - I was reading it to our girls, and they were saying 'stop doing that silly voice Mummy' - I couldn't - I could barely talk around the tears!

Little Women, and Good Wives.

Freckles.

I cry like a baby at Once There Were Giants. Proper sobbing.

Elephant

I used to find the unknown endings on tv hard when I was little, I really struggled watching The Littlest Hobo not knowing where the dog was going to go next. Sob.

The Littlest Hobo - I loved that so hard! There's a voice, keeps on calling me. . . down the road, that's where I'll always be. . . every step I take, I make a new friend. . . just turn around, I'll be going again. . . maybe tomorrow, I'll wanna settle down. . . until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving on. . .

Not a picture book but I'll never forget my dad reading the Little Match Girl to me when I was about 6 or 7. I was slightly traumatised.

My son's favourite book was The Selfish Giant - I always read the end through choking tears and he'd be crying too - yet he'd always ask for it.

Also, the book 'Heaven' by Nicholas Allen. It's about a much-loved dog that dies and is funny but very, very sad too. Our old dog was put down and we got a puppy, just like in the story. Even typing that has choked me.

The Cherry Tree by Daisaku Ikeda.
I read it to my toddlers a year after my DH died.
It has a Japanese war widow in it, with 2 young DC, and her kids help an old man to wrap a cherry tree in straw to help it survive the winter. It hadn’t blossomed since the war, but the following Spring it bursts into bloom (there’s a beautiful picture).
The kids take their widowed mum to see it, and she says it did her good to see such loveliness. “So maybe that was the day when her broken heart began to mend”.
I still can’t read it without crying, over 25 years later!

frugalkitty um, 'The Littlest Hobo' was written by many writers, it appears that it was the job you got if you were 'resting'. A good friend at sixth form parents' wrote a few and apparently rolled around the floor laughing about how schmaltzy they could make it, well they were not earning much at the time and I am sure those were not the episodes you watched.

"Love You Forever" got some shit bits in it but am always a sobbing wreck by the end

The Paper Dolls.

And they flew... into the little girls memory.

I can't read it did without my voice going all thick and funny.

Too too many.
Goodbye Mog had me in floods.
Black Beauty. Oh God, Ginger......
Boxer in Animal Farm
The dog in I Am David
Zach and the little baby in Goodnight Mr Tom
The Boy In Striped Pyjamas didn't have me in floods, but when I reached the end I was in a cold shocked horror.
Anne Frank's Diary. I read it when I was the same age as she was when she died. I couldn't believe that somebody whom I'd probably want to befriend, went through all that fear just to be killed. And, that millions of people just like her suffered the same horrors.
Anything bittersweet by James Herriot. The cat that died after giving her kitten to kind people finished me off.
The Snow Goose. I can't even think about that one.
The Little Mermaid.
The Happy Prince.
Birdie in Tottie, The Story of a Doll's House

Find the White Horse by Dick King-Smith, it’s about two dogs trying to find their way home, it’s got an Irish Setter in it and that’s the dog we have, so I’d be choked up thinking about her being lost somewhere.

Black Beauty, yes!
And I always cry when I read the Little Mermaid. It’s so tragic.

Whatever it is that ends “love, like starlight, never dies”.

And of course Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables.

Charlottes web breaks me. 'Tell me about Heaven Grandpa Rabbit' And 'paper dolls' both wreck me too.