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, Peepo is beautiful, warm and poignant.

For some reason it's the end of the Gruffalo when the mouse finds his nut that sometimes makes me bawl. It's all that he wanted all along

Yes tmmj! Anything that involved being out after bedtime was very exciting.

Dogger and The Selfish Giant regularly move me to tears. In fact I cannot read the Selfish Giant at all. DH has to read it to them!!

Tmmj, Lady -

Yes, riding along in the back of our orange VW ("Schultz") to the chip shop on a dark winter's night of driving rain, with dad and I singing "Mull of Kintyre" at full whack - so exciting! The chips, the dark, the whooshy rain, being with Dad so late, what an adventure!

I remember I was tiny (about 3?) and perched with my bottom on the back seats with my body wedged between the front seats so I was almost sitting next to Dad, who was driving - no car seats in those days!

Gosh this thread is nostalgic!

I love all Ahlberg books...well, most of them. I never got the baby catalogue book, but I guess that's just me.

Peepo is a bit of a weepy. I didn't find Bye Bye Baby too bad. I loved Burglar Bill and we still say to each other 'I'll 'ave that' in strange, cockney voices at times. I loved the cops and the robbers as well 'Ho Ho for the robbers, the cops and the robbers, ho ho'.

DD had a book called The Cats of Tiffany Street (not Ahlberg, but great none the less) which she could recite word for word after 3 readings (when she was 2) flicking the pages at the appropriate places, so she looked like she was reading it. It was her party trick for a while That made me cry because the man who was horrid in the story 'wasn't really so bad, just old, and lonely and terribly sad'. The stray cat came out of things alright too.

I'm crying at the description of "Nothing", and I've never even read the book!

I picked up "Goodbye Mog" by mistake in our library, and was aghast when I saw the illustration of Mog's soul going skyward! My DD was only about 4 at the time - we both had a cry!

I thought the woman who wrote the Tiger Who Comes to Tea was asked what it really meant and said very firmly 'it's about a Tiger who comes to tea'. A case of readers bringing their own interpretations to the work in a very post-modern, stuff means what the reader/viewer/listener wants it to mean, not just what the creator intended.

Bumps - sounds lovely but I'd better avoid. Am a sucker for crying very easily over kid's books that leave ds unmoved. Even the Thomas story about the little lost engine. Because it is TRUE and I know the real engine it happened to. (My Dad's hobby is driving steam engines and he knew Revd. Awdry. All the original Thomas stories are based on real events.)

This thread has just cost me a fiver! I'd never heard of "Then they were giants" before - now I've just ordered it from Ebay.

Oh it's just got to be Mile High Apple Pie for me.
About a little girl's relationship with her Gran who's descending into dementia.
Such a lovely story, the first time I read it I remember fighting back the tears thinking "Don't die, this was in the picture book section for pre-schoolers, surely that can't happen".

It doesn't happen by the way and is one of the most beautiful stories for children I've ever read. I know it sounds depressing but it's sweet, heartfelt and uplifting.
My daughters borrow it every few months from the library (been doing that for almost 3 years). HAs a great recipe for apple pie too!

at Dogger stories!
I've never read any but always makes me think of a Steve McFadden type indulging in a spot of dogging in a car park.

If only Shirley Hughes knew...

Owl Babies "I want my mummy".

Crying at Dogger is sort of a family tradition here. I must admit I don't mist up with Peepo but I do enjoy the nostalgia (and try not to think about all the wartime implications when I'm reading it with DS).

Agree with Betty re. Owl Babies. I can't read that to DS without my voice going all wobbly.

'And she came' Waaaaaaaaaa!

Mummies always come back.

DS is a big Mog fan and we finally read 'Goodbye Mog' a few weeks after our own Mog was put down. Just the once, I couldn't face it again, but it might have helped DS a bit, I don't know. Might also explain his fixation on us getting a 'ginge kittin' very very soon, too.

I adore Peepo! Such a beautiful story. DS1 aged three loves it and used to choose it every night for months and then stopped. He chose it again last week and I nearly wept with joy at the thought of reading it!

I also used to take it out of his room afterwards so I could look at the pictures.

For a time DS thought the baby's name was Peepo!

Love you Forever always gets me!

Peepo, definitely. I think, because we read it so often to DS when he was a tiny, non-sleeping type boy, that I will always know it off by heart and cherish it.

I don't get Owl Babies, largely because Bill reminds me of Mom's youngest son in Futurama. I worry for his future.

But Debi Gliori, wow. I got No Matter What out of the library last week and bawled my eyes out. DS gave me a big sloppy toddler kiss to cheer me up again. I think he was worried.

Dogger is my childhood. Dave's house and the kids' clothes are shockingly familiar. When did the seventies become such a long time ago?

Oh, and I had forgotten the last page of "We're going on a Bear Hunt" where there's the picture of the sad bear who only wanted to play. Dd didn't realize that page was even there until she read the book to ds when she was 7. She thinks I am a sentimental idiot!

Oh blimey, have just read this thread through and I'm sat here welling up at the thought of my DSs brown bear he lost a few years ago. I could write a real tear jerker of a book with that tale. We both cried for a week when we realised we'd never see him again.

Oh blimey, have just read this thread through and I'm sat here welling up at the thought of my DSs brown bear he lost a few years ago. I could write a real tear jerker of a book with that tale. We both cried for a week when we realised we'd never see him again.

My mum used to read me Peepo a lot and I really clearly remember the day I realised it was set in the middle of the war and Daddy was leaving. Had a lump in my throat reading it ever since!

I'll Love You Forever I just find intensely creepy...... Driving across town to climb in through your adult son's bedroom window at night. Am I reading the wrong thing!?

makes me cry, I lent it to a friend and it didn't come back.

I know it off by heart from my dad reading it to me :) read it to dd now.
One that makes me blub is winnie the pooh when Christopher is leaving for school.....' if ever there is a tomorrow when I'm not around there is something you must remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think. .. but the most important thing, is that even if we are apart, I am always always with you.'