to get tearful every time I read the Ahlberg's "Peepo" to DD

[Bumpsadaisie]

Don't know why, but I find it a real tear jerker! |Anyone else? Am i just hormonal?

YANBU

the mirror with the rainbow rim

YANBU - it's the mirror page that gets me too. Daddy is wearing his uniform

He sees the bedroom door, his cot made ready
His father kissing him goodnight
His ball
And his teddy.

Me too, nostalgia in its finest form. I love the fringe on the hood of his pushchair. And the teapot on the dining table, we just don't do that any more

of course YANBU! It's the war! On the pages not in the book there are babies whose daddies will not come home.

(I just typed a para about the other things happening on the pages not in the book but I deleted it because otherwise no-one on Mumsnet would ever speak to me again )

Sob. It's the nightie warming on the oven door that always gets me, boo hoo.

Thankfully DD is still too young to notice her crazy mother sniffling and gulping!

also, the mum are dad are actually everyone's granny and grandad, and the baby and sisters are everyone's parents, and you cry because you loved your granny and grandad and they are gone

Gulp! I'm tearing up just thinking about it. I like the picture of the poor worn-out mummy dozing in the chair. DD loves loking at me and her in the mirror and I love that bit as well

Makes me snivel too - mostly the daddy in his uniform, but also the love that AA puts in to remembering his family in it.

DS has one book that makes me actually, physically cry, and he is very sweet about it

Funny, this is DGD 2.5 favourite book at the moment.

I have a bookcase where I keep all the children's books.

When she wants me to read her a book I always tell her to go to the bookcase and choose one.

She always comes back with PEEPO and Charlie and Lola.

A particular favourite of my DS and DD was "Jeremiah in the Dark Woods" and "The Jolly Postman".

It is actually my DD's copy of PEEPO that we read.

When we read the first page we stop and then DGD traces her fingers across the page and whispers "Peepo".

I don't know what makes me more teary. The book, or the look on DGD's face as she points out the little dog outside the fence, the sisters hiding in the clothes or Grandma pegging out the clothes.

We only read it again last night when I looked after her while her mum went Christmas Shopping

I mist up at Dogger (Shirley Hughes) when the sister pretends she never wanted the brand new teddy so she can get Dogger (the toy dog) back for her little brother. It's such a touching tale of a brother and sister and my two dc are so close, it just gets me every time.

I adore Peepo and Dogger - both books I was adament my children would have as I loved them so much as a little girl.Peepo I bought when I was pregnant and DS1 knows all the words now. ex-DH used to laugh that I could recite it without looking - its a classic wonderful book.

I loved the Naughty Little Sister ones too

I love peepo, has been a firm faveorite with dd all her 5 years and ds now aswell. It is such a lovely book, I love to read it and I read it a great deal lol!

Ah it brings back memories seeing the lines quoted here... DD is 7 now so haven't read this for years. It was my favourite of her books, for all the reasons mentioned by other posters. Really beautiful book, and DD loved it too.

YANBU!

I used to read it to DD1 who is now 24. Now I read it to 3 yo DD2. The mirror with its rainbow rim always sets me off. My DH thinks I'm a loon

Their house is my gran's house, which I think is probably part of it too.

YANBU, I do it too.

Have you tried reading No Matter What by Debi Gliori? I couldn't see through my tears to read that the first time!!!

I'm ok with Peepo now, but it's taken 3 years to be able to read it and not cry.

I currently have issues with the Snail and the Whale as it's the story I read to the DC's at bedtime on the day my dad died last month. "And they sang to the sea as they all set sail on the tail of the great blue humped back whale" .

Aw, Meglet, that's really poignant.

Peepo is one of my favourite children's books and I can just about recite it from memory, even though ds is now seven and hasn't read it for years. The artwork is gorgeous and the expressions on the faces... everyone looks so kind.

My little girl love Mog (as I did as a child - it's a real nostalgia thing for me to read this to her) and I'm dreading the day she discovers the 'Goodbye Mog' book...

I cannot read 'Guess How Much I Love You' without sniffling. Ever. And that's supposed to be a happy one!

Is Nothing the one about the poor soft toy who has been left in the attic so long he's forgotten his name? Oh, that one makes me well up! Poor little Nothing.