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?

We had to put Goodbye Mog in the recycling, it made DC so upset!
We cried at the end of Winnie the Pooh when Christopher Robin says goodbye to Pooh
I will certainly wait a long time before we attempt Charlotte's Web, Old Yeller, Watership Down
(sorry I'm mixing books and films)

That The line (I may be misquoting slightly) that really gets me is “and on the breast where she had taken her first breath, she breathed her last”. Even worse since I became a mum. I well up even typing it.

The Selfish Giant
Michael Morpurgo books

That Winnie The pooh ending about if there's a tomorrow when we can't be together........
It has incredibly sad associations for me now.

The Happy Prince..by Oscar Wilde. The one about the statue?
Tearing up now as I think about him being melted down...bit his heart wouldn't melt...
Oh sweet Lord. It kills me every time but in a sort of bitter sweet way.

Oh,@Myusernameismud, what a lovely lady!

Charlotte's Web when Charlotte dies. It was the first book that I ever read as a child to make me cry tears of absolute sorrow. I can still remember it now.

Dogger also makes me cry when the boy's sister gives the big teddy to the little girl so that she can get Dogger back for him. Every time I read it I'm fighting back tears.

The Happy Prince.

When I was little - a chapter in Uncle Toms Cabin ( I think is banned now )
The incredible journey

With my children

The big ugly monster and the little stone rabbit - so so beautifully written

Hold on

Did Mog die?

I don't think I have that one our collection.

I bought Goodbye Mog to help my then four year old because my Mum was dying and it was difficult to explain what was happening. I sobbed and sobbed. That was nearly 17 years ago. I got it out again recently to read to my 8 year old and sobbed and sobbed again. It's just one of those books....

Goodbye mog is so sad I can't read it. It's such a lively story though. I love when mog goes to the sun. I'm crying now thinking about it haha

Paper Dolls. It's been put away. I cannot read it. The first time I read it to my daughter I had never even heard of it, and it was so lovely and when he got the scissors I was like "no... surely not" and BOY DID I CRY!

Lovely not lively

Charlotte's Web was the first book I cried over too. I can't read goodbye mog either!

Moominland in Winter, when Moomintroll sneezes and his Mummy finally wakes up!

I know Love You Forever is divisive and that people take it literally (obviously it’s not meant to be literal) but I would really struggle to read it out loud, especially after reading about the story behind it:
www.huffpost.com/entry/the-heartbreaking-story-behind-iconic-childrens-book-love-you-forever_n_573ceb97e4b0aee7b8e8f76f?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKTYK82AC-fPbWctWTSsfn_LoXXbol5hBrcjpy9SIhTD8L7DEKjA_mxiLipbj1fiuhm964gGy4CTOLPie3K9cBjKFAdBz8t7V7MCBg1hXCCGcoxi4mQHy5qKPYyyXzsL3XXnx5jgNYU9XR1zAYlZP2y3EkpBkrfFH14306PnjpUq

My mum died before my boys were born and I don’t think I’d be able to read it to them without ugly crying.

A Little Princess, when her father dies and she's sent to the attic.

The Railway Children, when the father comes back.

Dobby's death.

Paper Dolls broke me...

Even this thread has made me cry. Mine are:

Someday by Alison McGhee. Just a beautiful story about loving a daughter, and her hopes for that daughter's future (but things like 'someday you will dive into the clear, cool water of a lake' rather than aspirational stuff) and then at the end it talks about how when her daughter is old... 'You'll think of me, love' (fuck it I'm off again!)

Wherever you are, my love will find you. Just a beautiful love poem to a child saying that they're never alone. 'You are my dearest, my darling, my star. And my love will find you wherever you are'.

The invisible string. This is a mum explaining that we're all connected to the people we love with an invisible string. When you feel a tug on your heart it's because you're missing them and it's making a tug on the string from your heart to theirs. It can go all around the world, even up to heaven and it never breaks no matter what.

Plus loads of others mentioned on this thread - paper dolls, stickman, Michael Rosen's sad book (that one is so painful). And I sobbed at The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Also Maus by Art Spiegelman (but these were painful, horrified sobs not painful beautiful sobs like some of the other books).

By the way, in case 'Love You Forever' by Robert Munsch didn't make you cry enough already - did you know that he wrote that four line verse (I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be) after both his first and second babies were stillborn? His wife wasn't able to conceive after that and they adopted children but the story came much later than those painful lines.

Com Back Buster always got me! Used to read it loads when I taught in reception and had to hold it together every time!
So many of the books people have mentioned have made me emotional!

@Myusernameismud
Oh god your post has me in tears!
What a lovely lady.

The heart and the bottle

This one nearly did for me - read it once to my kids and we all agreed that we would never ever read it again.

Oh no, I had forgotten about The Railway Children, ‘My Daddy, My Daddy’. My DF has died since I last read it with DS a few years ago. Don’t think I will be able to read it again

A huge number of childen's books set me off but especially every bloody thing that Michael Morpuro has written, The Snail and the Whale
and The Mousehole Cat.