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?

@AmaryllisNightAndDay, YY, and also The Children of Green Knowe. When she says 'they all died together on the same day, in a few hours'. I remember reading it and welling up at the idea that they might have known about each other dying. And the granny crying at the 'lully lullay' carol they overhear.

I love those books.

Wherever I go, my love will follow you.

Read this to my kids last night - my Dad has recently died and I had to stop reading and compose myself at one point. Lovely book.

Oh yes A Stranger at Green Knowe. We all sobbed about Hanno.
And Someday. I can’t read that without crying, even more so since my mother died.
I hadn’t heard of Paper Dolls until this thread.

I've had to stop reading this thread as I'm welling up

The almost ending to Harry Potter gets me every time when he’s walking off to sacrifice himself I can’t deal with it! (Does Harry Potter still count as a kids book?)

I can't handle anything where a pet dies. I couldn't cope with any of those movies where the dog gets lost and tries to find its way home. I lost it in John bloody Wick. I'm getting worse as I get older...I well up at everything. I was a mess throughout Avengers Endgame at the cinema.

Anne of Green Gables (loved it) - cried, Little Women, Little Matchstick girl, cried a lot
with the rabbit books where the daddy loves him all the way to the moon...and back.

I remember going shopping with my sister when we alerted late twenties. We were looking for a new book for my DD (then around 4). I picked up Goodbye Mog. We both read it in the bookshop and left in floods of tears!!! I've still not let my DD read it and she is 10 now! Absolutely heart wrenching!

Grandad’s Island really caught me out. I thought it was just a beautifully illustrated book but when I read it to them the first time I sobbed!

Beth March's deathbed scene.

When David Copperfield walks all the way from London to Dover to find his aunt!

I thought the dad in Peepo was off to do some night work as a volunteer?

This one always gives me a chill. From A Child's Garden of Verses, a poem called "To Minnie":

The river, on from mill to mill,

Flows past our childhood’s garden still;
But ah! we children never more
Shall watch it from the water-door!
Below the yew—it still is there—
Our phantom voices haunt the air
As we were still at play,
And I can hear them call and say:
“How far is it to Babylon?”

Ah, far enough, my dear,
Far, far enough from here—
Yet you have farther gone!
“Can I get there by candlelight?”
So goes the old refrain.
I do not know—perchance you might—
But only, children, hear it right,
Ah, never to return again!
The eternal dawn, beyond a doubt,
Shall break on hill and plain,
And put all stars and candles out
Ere we be young again.

I was warned to read Goodbye Mog before I bought it - very sound advice! I bought a book at a car boot called Rosalie about a very old dog. My youngest loved it but I struggles at the bit where the dad strokes her head, sighs and looks sad. I read Black Beauty many times as a child, but now I have my own black horse with a white star I just can't.

Once there were Giants - I found it in Poundland once and bought half a dozen copies to give to friends.

Also The Baby Dances by Kathy Henderson. It has beautiful illustrations and follows the story of the baby's first year through the seasons. She is born in winter, smiles in spring, sits up in summer, stands in autumn and when winter comes around again she dances - straight into the arms of her big brother.

I read it to my son while he was lying on the bed cuddling his baby sister and I cried and cried.

"Abandoned" - about a kitten, abandoned, finds a home - but then.....
My children swear I traumatised as children.

Tarka the otter

Yes to Once There Were Giants, tearing up as I think of it.

Koala Lou, recommended by one of our nannies, really made me cry.

I was grief-stricken when Anne's baby died, sobbed.

I think the dad in Peepo is going to some sort of ARP work, doesn't he go off with a wooden rattle, which he might have used to alert people to something in the blackout?

Watership Down

Granpa. The last page....the empty chair.... :(

Nancy Nutall and the Mongrel makes me sob as well, although that's a happy ending.

I read a fabulous book called 'Pax' to my son last year and he sobbed and sobbed at the end of it, even though to me it was the right ending. He's been slightly obsessed with foxes ever since.

Charlie and Me: 421 Miles From Home - amazing book I'm glad I read it before giving it to him because there's a twist in it that I didn't see coming at all and it floored me. Have put it away until he's a bit older.

@didofido yes to Abandoned...whoever wrote that book hated animals and children. I cried for days after reading that book...my Nan (who bought it for me) was horrified. I've never come across anyone else who's read it!

DGD loves Paper Dolls. I haven't read it and judging by this thread, I daren't do it. I am crying just thinking about it. I adored Black Beauty as a child and read it over and over and over again without a tear, but I doubt if I could do that now. I know that I have cried reading children's books aloud, but don't know remember which ones. No doubt the DC would tell me, with much rolling of eyes.

I have read it hundreds of times to my kids but still can't read "No Matter What" by Debi Gliori without a lump in my throat. It's wonderful.

The Little Match Girl
Mog was tired ... tear flood in bookshop.

I was a teacher and doing story time with about 50 five and six year olds. A child chose Goodbye Mog, a book I hadn’t previously encountered, and I can’t tell you how shamefully I sobbed.The children found this hilarious and every time I said I couldn’t go on, they begged me to continue. Every time I did story time after that, they’d beg for Goodbye Mog; heartless little sadists.

Another vote for Oh, The Places You'll Go. And anything about children growing up - yep, "Puff the Magic Dragon" gets me as well. Peepo too. Has anyone mentioned "Guess How Much I Love You" ? My DCs would always laugh at me when I started crying at the end.

As a child, I am David, made me weep. As a mum, reading, guess how much I love you, gives me a wobbly voice