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?

So many lovely stories here! Some which I've read and lived, like the Paper Dolls, and some others which are going on my to-buy list!

Gah! Loved

A picture book called “goodbye whale” and an Australia book Koala Lou

Omg ... the snowman ⛄️..when the boy falls to his knees at the end...

Owl babies.

AND SHE CAME!

In bits every single time.

I bought Goodbye Mog to give to my DH as a present from our first cat.(We'd both buy each other presents from the cat)
I wrote a little note in it & even got our cat to do her paw print.
A few years later DCat passed away & when I reread Goodbye Mog I howled.
I got DD all the Mog books but I've hidden Goodbye Mog.
I cried when Judith Kerr died. All her books are amazing & I grew up reading the novels about her childhood.
Judith Kerr bought joy to so many with her writing & illustrations. I wish she was still here.
I like to think of her up in heaven feeding Mog her favourite, an egg.

The Biff, Chip and Kipper books always make me want to cry but not because they are emotional - the sight of one for the umpteenth time is soul destroying, luckily they are not much in favour.

The Happy Prince and The Snow Goose. I collect different editions of both books with lovely illustrations and those books never fail to make me cry.

Also most books written by Michael Morpurgo render me a blubbering wreck!

“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”

My DS is called Max and though he hasn't (to my knowledge) ever sailed away in a private boat the quote above gives me a throat lump for when he eventually sets off for life on his own .

Dear Greenpeace - no idea why but makes me weep just thinking about it

Everything by Michael Morpurgo has made me cry at some stgae.

Oh shit reading thís whole thread now reminds me of The Tin Soldier
and the tin heart in the fire 😭

MOG DIES?!?!?! How the hell did I miss that?!

For me, it turns out I can’t read the bit where Dobby dies out loud. Or any of Hogwarts deaths actually. There would be no point in me trying to read the Anne of Green Gables series out loud either- it would be inaudible. And I only have to think of the bit in Little Women where Beth tells Jo that she will be homesick for her, even in heaven and I’m gone...

We are big Mog fans in this house, one of our cats is even called Mog - I have never read that book and I don't think I ever could!

My DS2 aged 10 saw Goodbye Mog in a book shop and only read a couple of pages, he almost made himself sick crying and didn’t sleep as our lovely old cat looked just like Mog. He had to have the next day off school he was in such a state. When our DCat died it was even worse 😢

@isabellerossignol

I cry like a baby at Once There Were Giants. Proper sobbing.

Me too! Every time. Not many people know that book, I find.

DD is obsessed with Mog books... we were looking for more Judith Kerr in the library once and I found another one she wrote called ‘My Henry’, written from the point of view of an old lady whose husband had died... I was in absolute floods of tears, DD didn’t notice, but the Librarian did!

Sobbed at ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ as a child, prob still would now if I was brave enough to re-read it...

‘Love’ and ‘When You Were Born’ by Emma Dodd are not to be read when you have PMS.

ineedaholidaynow Michael Morpurgo is a jolly nice and sensible chap. Long story but he came to our school to speak and I ended up sort of doing his stage direction, DCs were amazed that I would wade in!

I must be made of stone, because Goodbye Mog leaves me cold. I love Judith Kerr, and I was far more sad than I should have been when she died, and she is honestly one of the people I would most like to be like. But, while I think Goodbye Mog is beautifully written, to me it isn't horribly sad.

OTOH, @AgentCooper, I was also quite worried when I first read 10 Little Dinosaurs, that it would have an ending I couldn't cope with!

Bridge to Terebithia caught me and DP off-guard - she remembered it as a lovely heart-warming child's film, so we merrily watched it one day and both had to stop in floods of tears as DD watched in bemusement. She must have blanked out the tragic bit!

I also cry at The Selfish Giant, and the more because of that bit in the film Wilde where he tells the story to his own sons. Who, of course, he didn't get to see again after he got out of prison.

And I had proper floods of tears when I decided - the first day DD went to nursery, of course, like an idiot - to re-read Anne's House of Dreams where her first baby dies, and she's not allowed to hold it or have it with her after the first few hours, because it's slowly dying and the wisdom of the time was that she shouldn't be told. Awful to think of that.

@thebear1 I did exactly the same in Waterstones, just browsing the books ,started reading and the tears came !

Anything about children growing up gets me,it makes sense now I'm older,but I've always been the same!
So whoever upthread said "Puff the Magic Dragon" ,yep,that's one - Dragons live forever,but not so little boys..." Sniff.
And the end of the House at a Pooh Corner - the enchanted place at the top of the wood where a boy and his Bear will always be playing...
And the poem in the Child's Garden of Verses about the boy playing in the garden,don't disturb him or ask him to play as "sad to say,he has grown up and gone away,and it is but a child of air who lingers in the garden there..."
Waaaaaaaaaah!

Another one who can’t get through Paper Dolls without having to read it in a slightly fuzzy voice.

Ohhh so many..

Grandads Island. I bought it when my darling dad was dying and read it to the DCs on the train on the way to visit him. I got halfway through reading it and couldn't carry on for crying. The lovely little elderly lady sitting across the table from me gently took it from me, handed me a tissue and carried on reading it to DCs while I sobbed. She was a dear lady and I'll remember her face forever.

Paper dolls kills me, as does the velveteen rabbit. Bridge to terabithia, and the most lovely Debi Gliori book called Stormy Weather. Its so lovely that whenever I find out a friend is pregnant with their first baby, it's the first thing I buy.

Michael Rosen's Sad Book. I can't get beyond the first page without being covered in snot.

Which is ironic, because I bought it for the DC to get them through a difficult time. Instead my 'this book will help you' loving gesture turned into them saying 'Mum, perhaps you shouldn't read this to us anymore...?'