Kids picture books that make you tear up

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Stickman and Paper Dolls both by Julia Donaldson.

Also Bye Bye Baby by the Ahlbergs. Dear god! 😭

No Matter What by Debi Gliori. In bits every time I see it.

OMG this one

My kids have that one but my GOD the misplaced moral drove me nuts. It is apparently far worse or 'never once say please' than to kidnap a baby and go on a crime spree.

As soon as I saw the thread title I thought of Paper Dolls, where they dance into her memory with the lost things and the kind Granny...

No Matter What by Debi Gliori.

Bit of backstory, but my dad had just died and I was really struggling. My now-husband bought me a book about dealing with grief as well as a copy of 'Guess Joe much I love you'.

Can't even look at it without welling up, let alone read it!

Pinocchio always makes me emotional, I feel so sorry for his 'father' who gave everything he had for the boy, who then threw it all back in his face and was so ungrateful.

I note the box set of Mog books doesn't have Goodbye Mog in. I think retailers know it would put people off buying the set! I have read it to my daughter when we were out somewhere that had it but most of the time I'm happy to pretend it doesn't exist - especially as the children are the same age in it as in the other books, which means that in all her other books she's living on borrowed time! I think Judith Kerr should have massively aged them up in it!

I can't get through Dogger without happy crying at Bella swapping her bear for her brother's dog. And Owl Babies at the end when the littlest one says 'I love my mummy!'

ThreeKneeRepeater it's a bit individual I think most sane children/adults enjoy the elephant and the Bad Baby misbehaving gleefully all over the place and then getting pancakes!

Can only think that as a rather anxious child it was the idea of never once saying please, everyone looking at you, and wanting your mummy ...

Absolutely love Mog but I was the generation before she wrote Goodbye Mog so I've just avoided opening that one on principle. Mog is still around in my world

Oh also "Here We Are" by Oliver Jeffers. It's my DH's favourite, he always get sniffly when he reads it to our kids - the last page with the long line of people is beautiful.

We had a book of Puff the Magic Dragon - slays me every time.

Agree with almost all mentioned above!

I came on to say paper dolls and mog

Little women a bit of an older age book

Definitely Pooh bear at the end in the 100 acre forest

Easily cry at a book but not much any other time 😳

Paper dolls for me too. And owl babies.

The Toymaker by martin waddell.

"And she made it with love, for she had not forgotten".

I have a video of my dear father reading it to my son, and even my dad teared up x

I remember trying to tell a colleague the plot of The Velveteen Rabbit and having to stop due to getting choked up...

There's one called Nothing about a lost toy that also kills me.

Toys must be my kryptonite...

Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge.

An Australian classic, about a little boy who helps his elderly neighbour regain memories by bringing her different precious items of his own. It's absolutely gorgeous and a wonderful message about friendship but bloody hell 😭😭😭

The Christmas Miracle Of Jonathan Toomey. Almost too sad to read!

Goodbye Mog for sure. I loved Mog as a child, but its also tied up with my own mum as well who loved Mog before dementia took everything.
When little, ds had a book called The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey which I'm tearing up just thinking about

Once There Were Giants. Oh boy.

The Little Boat. (This one: www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Boat-Kathy-Henderson/dp/1406313351.) I'm not even sure why.

Also Dogger, of course ('Then Bella did a very kind thing...')

Sophie's Masterpiece by Eileen Spinelli. Gorgeous illustrations and a lovely story. X

No matter what by Deb Gliori

"Does love wear out? Does it break or bend?
Can you fix it, stick it, does it mend?"

I love it and think it's so reassuring to children that 'Love like starlight, never dies'

Don't get me started on 'Love you forever'

I have tears now just thinking of Goodbye Mog. I don't even own it, I read it in the bookshop while my teens were browsing. Bad idea!

Once there were giants and goodbye mog. Getting upset just thinking about them 😭

My two loved Peepo! It always made me tear up.

The heart and the bottle by Oliver Jeffers. "Until one day she found an empty chair" 😭

Wow yes this one! DD had the book and soft toy set. Need to did the book out we definitely still have it somewhere!