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?

I know, the picture on the back of the Ahlbergs with their dd and cat makes my lip wobble a bit knowing that she died.

Love Peepo and Dogger and already read them to DD (8 months). It's The Snowman that always makes me cry - when he melts at the end. Apparently when I was little my mum got it from the library and I refused to let her take it back until she bought me my own copy!

Ah, Peepo is lovely! Am so glad my DSs have both enjoyed it. But the one that makes me absoluteky HOWL is No Matter What.

Edam !

No, the one you are thinking of is The Forgotten Bear!

I remember it, I had it as a child! Sob sob sob.

www.amazon.co.uk/Forgotten-Bear-Medici-Books-Children/dp/0855030011/ref=wl_it_dp_o?ie =UTF8&coliid=I2C9WLHHTH7MDC&colid=3MHF2CV6A002B

Oh, me too - and I haven't read it for 5 years!

Nor read that one but I am sure I would cry too. I cry at Lion King, Guess how much I love yuo and Sophie and the New Baby. No hope for me really.

Can I just add 3 words,
'The Velveteen Rabbit' (sob)

Oh heavens, Bump, don't tell me about another one for me to cry over! I really did mean Nothing by Mick Inkpen, don't need any more to make my lip wobble alarmingly...

We have Peepo as a hard back but I am thinking about getting it as a paper back as I love it. I love reading the last page slowly.
Just a beautiful book and definitely on verge of tears yet can't fully explain why.

Has anyone read the Ahlberg's Bye Bye Baby? Just read about it on Amazon & it looks like it could be a weepy. BTW I love Peepo. It doesn't make me cry, but if I was pregnant it would!

I have three words for you all. Avoid Martin Waddell.

In particular, The Big Big Sea, now thankfully out of print, and Once there were Giants, still available to sneakily reduce you to a gibbering wreck in the middle of innocently reading a bed time story.

Oh dear I am sat here sobbing at this thread.

I find it is more certain songs that make me cry... i have a cd full of nursery songs ans Two Little Boys always makes me sob

He sees his sisters searching
For a jar or tin
To take up to the park
And catch some fishes in.

Boo-hoo (I'm really milking it now).

The other one DD loves is Tiger Who Came To Tea. Sophie's Mummy in that story is a role model for us all. To open the door and, when confronted with a Tiger asking to come in and have tea, merely say brightly "yes, of course!" takes a special kind of mummy.

I aspire to that degree of equanimity, but were a Tiger to knock on our door at 6.30pm I would tell him I had had it up to here already thank you very much and to go away!

The unreconstructed elements are funny too - it always amuses me that it takes clever old Daddy (who comes home from work) to come up with the cunning plan about going to a cafe. Silly old wifey mummy was stumped before he suggested that!

Ooh, Edam - do read the Forgotten Bear if you want a weepy!

Basically, the bear is abandoned and has a scar (out of which some of his stuffing is poking) and eye patch (sob!). But afte some lonely travels, he gets together with the woodland animals and eventually fights off a nasty JCB which is digging up the country hedgerows for nasty a housing development (he does this by firing bows and arrows at it, natch).

Bumpsadaisie - You know, I read the Tiger who came to tea as if the mum just couldn't be arsed that day and she tells her DH about the tiger to explain why there's no dinner, no shopping, mess everywhere, and why the child hasn't had a bath or anything.
Then he just says "Ah lets go out instead".

Is that just me?

I haven't read "Peepo" but DS2 wouldn't let me read "The Selfish Giant" after a while because I always blubbed. As he got older, we had to abandon "War Horse" for the same reason.

oh God thanks for this thread! I thought it was just meeeeee and dp thinks I'm crackers

have been reading Peepo for the last twelve years on and off to various dcs and I still can't read the last page without my voice cracking. The dad in uniform and the mum remind me of my Nan and Granddad

"Guess How Much..." otoh I just find mawkish sentimental and sort of manipulative

[stern]

...actually had one of those moments last week- reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. You know- the bit where he finds the ticket and the kindly shopkeeper says something like "you look like you really needed that"- I sobbed like an abandoned puppy by a motorway. Dcs were disgusted

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Creepy

Oooh, interesting, I had never thought of that interpretation!

It was my fave book as a child too, so I have always had a child's understanding of it (i.e. literal!)

But if you are right it's a much more clever book than it appears at first.Perhaps Judith Kerr was planning to give the mums a wry laugh too, while letting the babies take it literally!

Very deep, Janitor!

That was actually my fave bit as a kid - that Sophie was allowed just to put her coat on over the top of her nightie and just go out like that!

Together with the impromptu and unexpected sausage and chips in a cafe rather than boring old bed, it seemed like a Utopia to me.

(I did have a sheltered childhood - pleasures were simple in 1970s Cumbria!)

Oh I know what you mean tmmj! It always reminds me of when we used to come home from holiday late at night and we were allowed a bowl of cereal before bed.

I didn't use to cry at peepo but I do love it. Did anyone hear Allan Ahlbeg being interviewed on R4 about Janet's - last year I think. I was driving down the M4 with tears rolling down my cheeks