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?

Badger's Parting Gifts. Wasn't too bad reading it to my children , but reading it to the grandchildren is barely possible.

‘Annie Rose is my little sister ‘ by Shirley Hughes. Gets me every time . ‘Because she’s my little sister, and I’m her brother, and we’ll go on being that forever until we’re grown ups.’ Blub .....

The Snail and the Whale, when the whale gets beached. First time I read that, it got me right in the feels.

I second The Happy Prince. Been weeping at that one since I was 7. Does anyone remember The Rabbits’ Wedding? It’s entirely happy, but I can’t read it aloud without melting into a weeping gibbering heap. The end of the unabridged Peter Pan gets me too.

Dogger gets me every time “then Bella did a kind thing”

I remember being devastated by the Steadfast Tin Soilder. Not helped by the only heat source as a child was the open fire. It was a constant reminder.

MirriVan I came on to say Little Wooden Horse but you beat me to it.

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

@Blankiefan

Yes!! Me too. My dad read it to my son a couple of nights before he died and I haven't been able to read it to him since, but even before that it always gave me a little lump in my throat

Hang on, WTF, am I reading this right, mog, as in meg and mog, is dead?

Puff the Magic Dragon.

No, Mog as in the cat in the books like Mog's Christmas...

I read Goodbye Mog to kids at nursery thinking he was just going out for a walk, poor kids didn't know what was going on after the cry fest started. I should have learned my lesson to read the blurb but then did it again with Granpa.
These days it is Paper Dolls and the Memory Tree, both deal with death so sensitively and beautifully.

Not Mog as in Meg, Mog and Owl, Meg's Eggs etc.

I couldn't bring myself to even buy Goodbye Mog. Or now, and we don't read the young Judith Kerr books anymore!

I'll miss you Mr Hooper. A Sesame Street book about when Mr Hooper died and how they told Big Bird. I blub even thinking about it. Big Bird was so sad .

The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde are so beautiful but heart breaking.

Some years back i started to read The Mousehole Cat to my Y3 class, and had to stop when Mouser looks back at the light in the window.
I read the rest once the children had gone home, cried my eyes out (the deputy head came in and asked if I was okay ), then finished the story the next day.

My DD loved the Mog books when she was a little girl. The first one we bought was Mog's Amazing Birthday Caper, and her favourite quote was to do with a bird "Don't Bite My Nose You Nightmare Nibbler"!

We have every Mog book, and they are the only books I haved saved. DD has already told me that she's not having any children :(

Watership Down made my DD cry, and a couple of episodes of Animals of Farthingwood made her incosolable.

I hadn't read Goodnight Mr Tom before reading it to DS, had to stop reading at one point as I was crying too much

Have read Little Women many times, still cry

Also I’ll Love You Forever and The Little Match Girl. I’ll add Oscar and the Pink Ladies (young boy with cancer has a few days to live so treats each day as a decade)

The last few lines from The House at Pooh Corner

“So, they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing”

Proper snotty sobbing every time i read that! Heartbreaking!

Greyfriars Bobby. I sobbed during the film and saturated my ironing whilst watching it and he doesn't die in that.

I was inconsolable reading the end of the book whilst sitting on the toilet in Rhodes.

For some perverse reason I bought it on dvd. It's still wrapped up in cellophane as I know what will happen if I watch it. I'm not an emotional person and I prefer cats.

Also is it just me, or is The Snowman really sad?

Grandad’s Island. DS is very close to his grandad and when I read this to him for the first time, I got all choked up and could barely finish.

Monkey puzzle

I always cry at the end of The Snowman- it's the desolation of the little boy at the end. I also cried at The Snowman the Snowdog.