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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?

@SirVix, no, the horse has a happy ending, but it's gruelling on the way.

Yes, The Christmas Kitten it was and I welled up too
Another was a story in a long ago annual about a pregnant horse, traipsing through snow and blizzard, on Christmas Eve. Nobody would help until one kind soul, staying alone in a secluded cottage. took in said horse and stayed in the barn with it whilst it gave birth . At midnight . Sob central it was.
War Horse
Spirit
Audrey Rose

There are many others but the above leap out

I know SirVix I still don’t get it. I very happily secretly read my parents’ books and had no problem reading War and Peace etc when I was 10 or so, but the so-called children’s books that my DM brought back as ‘Christmas presents’ were something else. There were quite a few like that. I don’t believe she did not take a look. I think her intention was to frighten me.

From my daughter's babyhood: Ten little fingers, ten little toes. It's the last bit
'But the next baby born was truly divine, a sweet little child that was mine all mine'.

I'm welling up now.

From my childhood: The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde. Still has me in tears.

GlomOfNit. I agree re children of green knowe but I never understood the relevance of the old lady ghost and baby to the story and they are never mentioned again. Did I miss something?

@zwellers I thought it wasn’t really part of the story, just to show that there were whole other generations of ghosts in the house apart from the children/family that Tolly gets to know. Granny says that the grandmother rocking the cradle is much longer ago than them. I suppose they would have even been ghosts to Toby, Alexander and Linnet. It’s nice, to me, that bit. That continuity we all have with previous generations. And don’t we all feel it especially at Christmas? Knowing you’re singing songs that have remained unchanged for so many centuries? We’re occupying the same places and singing the same songs as people hundreds of years ago. (Or is that just me being a soppy bugger?)

Dogger makes me well up. The sibling relationship is just lovely.

@EllebellyBeeblebrox we have that book! It's one of the handful we've kept as DD has gotten too big for picture books.

@Sarahandquack the 'lully lullay' is the Coventry Carol. A beautiful old christmas carol about the women wondering how to save their newborn children from King Herod's slaughter.

Way too hormonal for all this!! Yy to Dogger.

What happens in Paper Dolls?

I know, @ginnybag. It's one of my favourites. I'm writing about it at the moment. So beautiful and sad.

The Coventry Carol finishes me off. So beautiful and so distressing. I sang it in choir and it made me well up every time. m.youtube.com/watch?v=UFnM8pSsyUU

Is that you singing?! That's beautiful. I can't sing for toffee but I had students in the choir.

No, not me singing. That is Kings. I sang it in a mixed sex choir though, for a Christmas concert.

YY, I used to be at King's. I used to set them the medieval carols in the last week of term, just before Christmas, so they could go study them and also listen to them being sung. I wish I could sing, though.

The Little Match Girl traumatised me as a small child. It still breaks my heart thinking about that little dead girl in the snow that no one loved.

The Little Princess, when her father dies and she’s stripped of all her lovely things and sent to live in the attic and be a servant got me big style to.

Stunning choir aren’t they Sarah ? Re singing ,you could have lessons . Most people can find their voice and learn to sing. I have always sung, but I am having lessons now , I started them to help with my breathing, it has really improved my singing and I love the lessons.

I refuse to read it.
The velveteen rabbit sets me off.

The little Match Girl used to make my mother cry too. Also the old music hall song “ Who will buy my pretty flowers” on the same theme.

Oh dear

Lots mentioned here, but there's also a line in Tiddler which sometimes makes my voice go a bit funny... "I was lost, I was scared, but a story led me home again"

I love it. I think stories are really powerful things (as evidenced by the reactions on this thread) and the idea of a story helping you find your way home is beautiful.

No Matter What by Debbie Gliori - I read this a lot to my kids, then my mum died and the next time I read it after that I let out a massive sob on the "love, like starlight never dies" page. Where Small asks what does love do when we're dead and gone. I was a wreck.

I recently reread The Nightingale & The Rose by Oscar Wilde

Goodnight Mr. Tom.
I can't watch it either without bawling my eyes out

Where The Red Fern Grows. Re read it last week and blubbed like a
Baby. Again.