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! 😭

The Giving Tree
The Sad Story (I think its called this. Might not be a kids book! By Michael Rose)

So so many! The Christmas miracle of Jonathan Toomey, When Jesse came over the sea, The worst/best Christmas pageant to name a few

For older children but "goodnight mister Tom" and "back home" make my cry no matter how many times I read them.

’I’ll love you forever’ - I used to read that to my DS when he was baby (now 12) the mum was a bit of a stalker in the book but it made me cry so many times … ‘I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be…. ‘’. Arrghh welling up! Need wine !

We have one called ‘kicking a ball’ and both dh and I well up when we read it to our boys. It’s just a classic one of those reflections of childhood through the eyes of an adult, and it makes me ache with sadness in anticipation that one day we will look back so fondly on these days.

Wibbly pig and his silly big bear, ends with 'and when he is gone, we will miss him more than anyone' tears and goosebumps every time.

Giraffes can dance! Such a beautiful story

I haven't read most of these! How did I miss all this good stuff? Making notes.

’Nothing’ is absolutely lovely. Mick Inkpen.

The Mousehole Cat always made me cry, and a book called The Mudmaid that my parents bought DD from the Lost Gardens of Heligan. It’s the adult perspective of knowing WHY the gardeners suddenly leave and never return.

Goodbye Mog … never read it, the Amazon description made me cry.

Guess How Much I Love You ~ Sam McBratney 😭

Anything involving Rupert the bear. Not because the storylines are particularly sad, I just love the little band of animal friends, beautifully drawn, and reminds me of happy times as a child, and happy times when my own children were little ❤

oh paper dolls...the lovely granny in the girls memory. I read this book to my daughter after i lost my mum and her lovely granny. So poignant. An amazing book

Grandad's island, I can't even read the last pages without choking up

You Were The First. My cousin got it for my DD when I was pregnant with her little brother, and now I get it for all the little first borns I know when they're about to become the eldest:

"You were the first...to teach us how to be parents.
One day there may be a second - or a third - to sleep in the basket with the blue ribbon on it.
But you will always be the first."

I choked up just typing that.

'Daniel Duck Moves House'. I read it as a small child and cried when his new house fell down, and I still feel sad if I read it now.

'Nothing' by Mick Inkpen. So beautiful and sad but with a glorious happy ending!

Paper dolls. Bought a JD set and wasn't expecting it....proper cried (not a crier) and couldn't get through it. Never read it since but my oldest did it at school and the artwork brought it back. Horrific book.

Why am I reading this post it's made me cry!

Grumpy Cat - just something about a lonely old grumpy cat and a little kitten refusing to give up on him 😫

Ah this gets me too - every time!

No Matter What ...

@Cookie79 I love Grumpy Cat!

The saddest one I know is called Badger's parting gifts, about a badger that dies of old age.

Alfie’s Christmas (Shirley Hughes), it’s just too beautiful and makes me nostalgic.

The Lorax gets me

Snail and the whale 😭