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. Just read DS (now 9, but with a slight cold, so wanting bedtime cuddle) The Baby Who Wouldn't go to Bed (all Helen Coopers are great) and 'went all funny' remembering countless other times of reading to DC.

YANBU absolutely beautiful. A different world. Love love love it!

I first read Peepo to DD1 (now aged 30) and then to DDs 2, 3 & 4. Got me every time all those years ago but not as much as when I now read the same copy to DGD aged 2.
The reminders of my childhood seem even more poignant talking about the pictures with my DGD.
The exhausted mum dozing in the chair reminds me of my DM in just the same position.
Another one that I can't read the last line of without my voice breaking is Lucy and Tom's Christmas. Even though I read it every Christmas for 25 years. Such beautiful illustrations, but now when I read it to DGD it makes me feel sad that my children have grown up and I'll never have a Christmas like that again
I shouldn't have read this thread now I want chocolate.

All of the above and 'can't you sleep littie bear'