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! 😭

I love the bbc adaption. It just seemed so desperate and sad. The struggle of the everyday human who just can’t catch a break.

I am sorry for your loss but I disagree that children’s books should be lighthearted and fun and never anything else.

picturebooks can be enormously helpful to children who are trying to understand and come to terms with things. They can be helpful to whole families. Authors do think carefully about this stuff.

@Queenmargery love the Bog Baby

Every time Stickman falls asleep then gets picked up for firewood gives me goosebumps! I know it’s coming but every single time.

I cry over kids books all the time. Paper Dolls, Dogger and Stickman as already mentioned. And anything involving kids growing up eg Charlie and Lola I'm am too small for school (when she comes skipping out with her new friend), and The Red Woollen Blanket.

Also lots of older kids books inc Wonder, The Last Battle, When Hitler stole Pink Rabbit, Charlotte's Web.

My kids have always found it very funny that mum can't get through certain books without crying. They have hearts of stone lol.

Nobody else has mentioned the Red Woollen Blanket so I'm going to elaborate on it. It starts with a tiny baby wrapped in a red woollen blanket and then follows her as she gets older, always dragging the blanket behind her even though it gets ratty and is falling apart. And ends up small enough to put in her pocket when she starts school. And during her first day at school she loses the last threads while she's having so much fun. "and she never even missed it" Sob.

I disagree wholeheartedly. Picture books can help children deal with very big and important concepts such as loss and they are very important.

Paper Dolls is a beautifully done story in my opinion and deals with loss in a very gentle way.

We have a book version of 'Puff the Magic Dragon' and I have never successfully got through it without crying when the boy stops coming to see Puff and breaks his heart 💔😭
It's just so unbearably sad!