Fuck me... Goodbye Mog

[TiddleToddle]

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 bit where the animals are turned to stone in The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe absolutely traumatized me. Even just typing this is making me upset I’ve read it many many times but still have to skip that scene

Dogger.

Even though it has a happy ending.

Goodbye Mog is wonderful.

Judith Kerr died only last month.

Once there were Giants.
i’ll love you for always.
Agree with pp on Black Beauty. The trauma!
Ring of Bright Water.
The Snow Goose.
The Didakoi when the pony died.

Stickman makes me a bit wobbly, but the one that makes me tear up most was free with Bookstart. Can't remember what it was called but it's a board book about a baby penguin saying things like "the world is big and I am small, the sky is high and I am small etc" but then it's pictures of him cuddling his mum and the line is "but you are big and you are kind, when I'm with you I do not mind. I may be small but I can see-the biggest thing to you is me!"

My mother found my sister crying her eyes out reading Black Beauty, she told her she didn't have to read it if it was upsetting her so much, but my sister sobbed " But I have to read it, I can't stop..."

I cried in Waterstones at Goodbye Mog. Black Beauty and Little Women made my cry as a child and anything with an animal in peril.

The Steadfast Tin Soldier
The Emperor's Nightingale.
Basically anything by hands Christian Andersen.
Paul Gallico
Manxmouse...

The heart and the bottle

Came on to say Once There Were Giants too, even get choked up when reading it to my class!

Actually have had to choke back sobs reading the little bit about the Christmas Kitten on this thread. I remember sobbing over that as a 12 year old.
Agree the Little Match Girl.

Years ago Ds1 and I were driving quite a long distance. He was getting bored so when I stopped for petrol I bought a CD audio book. It was the original Tracey Beaker book. I drove and wept, Ds1 said 'What's the matter Mum? It's only Tracey Beaker'.

@InterestingShipNames
Its from No Matter What

The Velveteen Rabbit is another one that I struggle to get through.

Keep love in your heart, little one.
It gets me every single time - such a lovely book. Even DH chokes up when reading it to DS.

No Matter What is the one with “Love like Starlight Never Dies”. I am in tears every time.

Also, Mole and the Bird.

Oh Black, beauty when ginger died.
When I was a child many moons ago it was the book that brought it home to me that people ( and horses ) die. I cried so much my mother took it off me .

Full, Full, Full of Love also makes me well up.

The Sea Saw - it might have been the pregnancy hormones but it made me cry.

heymicky
I agree Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge has some lovely illustrations too.
Read it to my children, now reading it to my grandchildren.

Another vote for Paper Dolls. For me it's the bit where the little girl grows up and teaches her daughter to make Paper Dolls.
I miss the innocence of preschool books. I presently have the joy of reading various rainbow magic, rescue princess, enchanted forest etc books. DDs like them which is the main thing but very repetitive.

Oh God, Goodbye Mog

I loved Mog when I was a wee girl and am now reading the books to 21 month old DS. The drawings and the words take me back to long, long forgotten memories. So when Mog went and fucking died?? Inconsolable.

There’s an American picture book called Marshmallow about a wee rabbit who is taken from his mother to be someone’s pet and there’s a page about Marshmallow missing his warm, soft mummy so much that he cries but because he can’t make a noise like a baby or puppy or kitten he just cries silently. I read that when I was pregnant. Idiot.

Even bloody Ten Little Dinosaurs. The last page goes: safe at home with Mummy, who could ask for more? Ten little dinosaurs all say roar! I was reading that to one year old DS the day before returning to work after mat leave and I was in bits. DS just looked at me quizzically.

I really miss the Littlest Hobo. Reading the song lyrics brought tears to my eyes. Overly sentimental maybe but how I loved that dog! My childhood hero.

I read The Yearling by Marjorie Kinan Rawlings when I was in Grade 7. We had a quiet reading period in class. When I got to the part at the end where the deer was shot, I literally started sobbing in class. I was already considered a serious nerd. Crying didn't help.