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?

Wilfred Gordon McDobald Partridge. Australian picture book about a small boy helping his elderly neighbour regain her memory by sharing all his most precious little boy possessions. Killer 😭

2nd or 3rding ‘Love you Forever’. A beautiful book but an absolute wrecker. DH couldn’t read it, it always fell to me.

Paper dolls floored me. I was expecting a cheery gruffalo style story and read out at story time at my nursery and got an emotional cry fest instead. 23 bemused three year olds watching me sniffle my way through

Bridge to Teribithia absolutely broke me as a kid. The Little Prince too.

Paper Dolls used to just annoy me but now it chokes me up every time. Charlotte's Web set me off too (haven't been able to watch the film yet!). Just the thought of Goodbye Mog sets me off. We bought a set of Mog books (which I love) and I'm so, so glad that wasn't one of them..

Oh yes, The Paper Dolls and Goodnight Mr Tom

Also, when the Great Aunt dies in the penultimate “Sophie” book by Dick King-Smith.

There was one called Jacky Jumps To The Top about a pony called Flicka, there was one line in it that always got me when the owner of the stables goes bankrupt.
Another, by the same author, called Fields of Praise or in some countries Dream of Fair Horses made me weep. A heartbreaking story about more than just the typical girl-gets-pony story...really sad and realistic (unhappy) ending.

Oh the places you'll go. Read it to dd the night before she started school. Makes me cry every time I read it!! Lovely book

The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Selfish Giant
The Happy Prince
Dear Grandma (Mifffy)
Little Match Girl

I could go on ...

Grandpa by John Burningham.

Embarrassingly I grew up thinking a hobo was a breed of dog

Paper Dolls gets me too. Also a fairly new book that I bought for DD called The Girls. It's about 4 little girls growing up and the different their lives take but they are still best of friends as adults. It's a lovely book.

I have never been able to face Goodbye Mog.

I was just about to mention The Little Match Girl. DD had a version of it as her school reading book one evening. She stopped reading to put her arms around me and say, ‘It’s ok , Mummy, it’s only a story’ because I was weeping like a fool.

The Big Ugly Monster And The Little Stone Rabbit.

The Little Reindeer

The Little Prince

Can never read the end of black beauty. I cry before I even start knowing how it ends.

Also agree that Christmas kitten is a real tear jerker. James Herriot at his best. The way the mother cat struggles through the snow to take her new kitten ‘to the only warmth and safety she has ever known’ . I can barely read it now I have children of my own.

There is also a lovely book called ‘ I will always love you’ about a dog that gets old. It’s one of those books to help children understand death etc. But it’s beautifully done.

The Paper Dolls. I can’t even think about it without welling up.

Yes to Once There Were Giants. I can't ever get all the way through without crying. It's been the same wil all three of my DCs

Ah yes Paper Dolls makes me well up

FWIW it is years since we read “Love you forever”(youngest is 17) and it still has the power to make me cry.

@Armi DS had the Little Match Girl as a school reading book at that age too! Probably the same one. It absolutely floored me, I was crying while he read it and he was baffled.

Oh Goodnight Mr Tom at the end when he calls Mr Tom Dad (goes through her books to reread it) lovely book

Oh god. Goodbye mog.

Nope. Haven’t even read it. Can’t do it.

Bought it for dsis for her Christmas gift a few years back.

@mondaysaturday are you me? I just came on to say exactly this:

Bridge to Teribithia absolutely broke me as a kid. The Little Prince too.

Dear Greenpeace - about a little girls relationship with a whale

Mandy by Julie Andrews, it's about a girl growing up in a children's home who finds a derelict house in the woods & tries to make it a home for herself, she gets ill & collapses at the house, she is found & adopted by the family who help her. My mum bought it me for Christmas when I was about 9 or 10, I sobbed reading it, it was the first book I ever read that made me cry.

The Green Ship, by Quentin Blake.