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?

It was her time, Guest8989. She was dead tired.

I’m crying reading all these posts. So many I’ve forgotten or didn’t know the truth behind (that story Joey reads in Friends to Emma for example!)

Watership Down and the end of Peter Pan kill me.

I know it’s for older children/adults really...but Bilbo’s poem in The Fellowship...

“I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.”

I just read No Matter What to my dc tonight before I saw this thread.
Ds6 was being very grumpy but snapped out of it when he was listening. He said "I like it when you read this to me because I love you Mummy" 😭

Small said "I'm a grim and grumpy little Small and nobody loves me at all."
"Oh Small" said Large.
"Grumpy or not, I'll always love you no matter what."

These threads always make me sob!

Jennie by Paul Gallico!! The ending upset me so much my parents had to hide the book from me! I don't want to spoil it for you though! 🐱

@Windygate there is a film of Grandpa too - I used to sob for hours after it and still asked to watch it

Don't know if anyone has said the little sugar mouse dissolving so there was only the string tail left !
Can't remember the story though !

Has anyone read The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams (of Watership Down fame)?

DON'T.

I was so upset by Goodbye Mog. My kids were much less traumatised. I thought it was a bold decision to write it.

We still have the book as my youngest loves the Mog books (as have all my kids). Might have to get it out tonight and have a good cry. Doesn't matter how many times I read it I still get upset. Even DH got really upset when he first read it. We had a long discussion about Mog dying.

Or maybe I'll read Mog's Bad Thing instead.

What about the bit in the Sheep-Pig when Babe is left in the stall all on his own for the first time, & he says "I want my mum"?

Winnie the fucking Pooh. 'in that enchanted place, on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.'

Unbearable. (scuse the unavoidable pun)

And Ginger in Black Beauty.

Mile High Apple Pie about a lady with Alzheimer’s who forgets everything except how to make apple pie. My Nanna dies from Alzheimer’s and the book devastated me! As does the closing lines of Guess How Much I love You.

Iloveverykindofcat1 I started reading the Plague Dogs as a teenager, and stopped as I was finding it too disturbing, so I don’t know how it ended..
Dd2 was so upset by Mog’s bad thing that we could never read it again,

Oh God yes - Ginger in Black Beauty. I am Not Allowed to watch Black Beauty and will never be able to read it to my DS. The film was on TV a few years back and I sobbed and sobbed for about an hour afterwards, so it's now strictly forbidden.

Not a book as far as I know but I can't let this thread pass without mentioning the snow dog.

The first time I saw it was 2 weeks after our old man dog had died. Omg I absolutely sobbed, proper chest heaving, gut wrenching sobs. When it came on this Christmas I had to turn over after the first few minutes. I coped until they had to lift him out of the car and then DH turned it over and put me out of my misery.

Totally heartbreaking!

And Ginger in Black Beauty.

Arghhh....

I think it was remembering my reaction that (at home) which made my DD forbid me from going to see War Horse, film or stage.

I went to see War Horse on stage - it was incredible. At the end, DS turned to me and said 'Oh mum....you're the only one crying!' and a woman in the row in front turned round and went 'No she's not!'

I struggled to read DS1 The Children of Green Knowe because I knew the part was coming where Tolly and his great-grandmother are quietly listening to a very, very old ghost singing 'Lullay Lullay' to a tiny ghost baby in the next room, at Christmastime. I can't even think about it without wanting to cry.

Dogger gets my mum (Bella) but not me so much.

I am so upset by Goodbye Mog that I hid the book and now I can't find it. But that's ok because I can't read it. Actually, since dear Judith Kerr died, I'm finding it hard to read my younger child any of her Mog books.

I'm also gutted to learn from this thread that Sesame St's Mr Hooper DIED, and that they had to tell Big Bird.

spiderlight, when I saw War Horse I was in bits from the very beginning when Joey came on as a foal.

Welled up again recently too when he was on the Celebrity Painting Challenge.

I vaguely remember from my childhood, there was a book with an old man and an old dog, and one of them dies, and the other is left behind distraught. That had me in floods. I also tend to cry at happy endings as well..

This whole thread is making me weep. Am having to pretend that I've got hay fever.

Friend gave me The Mousehole Cat, and I actually couldn't get the last sentences out because was proper crying. There's old Tom and his cat, and he braves the storm to get food for the village, because he's the only one with no family to miss him....My 4yo just looked at me with blank incomprehension.

Am clearly now going to have to get Goodbye Mog and Once Were Giants and have a little cryfest.

OMG yes to the snow dog, I was proper sobbing but DCs and my mum were completely unaffected.

A children’s book about the French Revolution (bought for me by DM) the protagonist, a child, met the guillotine. I had nightmares for a long time. WTF DM? I was 8 FFS

I haven’t risked war horse...all I need to know is, does the horse die ?

FishGingers

What the hell?!? Mog dies 😳😳😥😥. My DD is only 2 so only read a couple, I'm not buying that one and keeping the cat alive in this house!