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To not quite see the fuss with Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes?

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weeblueberry · 24/06/2015 19:41

Virtually everyone has said they cry at the end of this kids book but I bought it to read with the wee one this evening and...nothing. I wasn't quite sure what bit I was supposed to find emotional other than the poor wee bugger who's got sniffles and coughs Hmm

Am I just a cold hearted bitch or is there something I'm missing?

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Luckystar1 · 24/06/2015 21:31

Bike whhhhhhy did you have to tell me that about his daddy. I've never cried over Peepo (although I love it!) but now, I'm welling up at just the thought of it! That's just so sad. Waaaaaaaah!

onelittleclara · 24/06/2015 21:34

No Matter What by Debi Gliori does it for me.

knackered69 · 24/06/2015 21:49

Guess how much I love you sets me off too! Or rather it did - they are 17 and 12 now Blush

I miss those days of reading to them -sometimes it felt like a bit of a pain in the arse reading the tiger who came to tea for the umpteenth time but I loved it really!

A few months ago I was sorting through a bookcase to put some in the loft ,when the knackered lads came to 'help' Hmm

"OMG! Do you remember THIS book? I Loved this book - it always made me feel... And do you remember the bit where...
And that bit was really scary and made me think of .. "

We spent such a happy but bittersweet evening going through them all and reminiscing - I swear I learned so much about the children that night! Thoughts ,feelings and associations that they made at the time that I wasn't fully aware of .

They are in the loft in case I ever get grandchildren (and so the knackered lads know that they are still there)

Jeepers.

I miss it though...

HalestormRock · 24/06/2015 21:50

'The Dancing Tiger' makes me sniffle every time. Love reading it. Esp when the little girl becomes an old lady watching her grandchild dance with the tiger as she once did. Sobfest.

HalestormRock · 24/06/2015 21:52

Also 'Susan Laughs' a beautiful book about acceptance of a child with a disability - really sweet.

meglet · 24/06/2015 21:55

Peepo, love you forever and the snail and the whale set me off.

I even feel a bit sorry for the lonely bear at the end of bear hunt.

knackered69 · 24/06/2015 21:57

Meglet - me too! He looks so lonely!

greenhill · 24/06/2015 22:05

YY to 'Peepo' and 'No Matter What', then when your DC are older 'The Velveteen Rabbit' and 'The Mousehole Cat'.

The DC used to say to me "mummy, what's happened to your voice?" As I sobbed through the last few pages.

haveabreakhaveakitkat · 24/06/2015 22:08

I used to love The Little Match Girl as a child but didn't really 'get' that she dies until I was older. Such a sad story - can't believe it's written for children.

ollieplimsoles · 24/06/2015 22:10

Dogger was always a very emotional one for me!

I find 'the storm whale' very moving and tear jerking, the last page gets me!

Theresadogonyourballs · 24/06/2015 22:18

Oh god, Goodbye Mog!!
I picked it up in the book dept of Peter Jones to have a leaf through - very embarrassing having to desperately root through my bag for tissues while the very concerned JL sales lady hovered nearby muttering, "are you alright madam?"
Also Guess How Much I Love You and Sometimes I Like To Curl Up In A Ball, (the ending where little wombat curls up with his mum or dad - adorable!)

Caboodle · 24/06/2015 22:23

Paper Dolls....

SuperMoonIsKeepingMeUpToo · 24/06/2015 22:26

Am I the only person to open this thread thinking out was going to be about polydactyly?

morningsarepants · 24/06/2015 22:31

Ten little fingers gets me every time! And the Selfish Giant is a good emotional one too....

MilliVanilliTinyWilly · 24/06/2015 22:41

Recently read DD charlottes web. I had to practice reading the last chapter and try and harden myself before I reached it with DD. I still howled.

glampinggaloshes · 24/06/2015 22:41

I simply can't read love you for ever without full-on weeping!

Mrsfrumble · 24/06/2015 22:43

Oh hell yes! at "the next baby born was truly divine, a sweet little child who was mine all mine". Gets me every time. DD is 2 and turns her little face to me when I'm reading it to her for her 3 little kisses on the tip of her nose.

Peepo! was DS's favourites when he was tiny and "a mother with a baby, just like him!" used to choke me up. For a while we thought we may never have children thanks to DH's cancer treatment, so being a mother with a baby boy still seemed quite miraculous to me. (I need to remember that feeling when the DCs are driving me crazy these days).

Apparently Robert Munsch wrote I'll Love You Forever after he and his wife lost two babies at birth. As if it was sob-worthy enough already...

glampinggaloshes · 24/06/2015 22:45

actually the biggest weepie is No Matter What. It makes me howl.

Araisaris · 24/06/2015 22:54

I still can't get through "While the World was Waiting For You" without sobbing.

OneHandFlapping · 24/06/2015 22:58

Another Janet and Alan Ahlberg book - Bye bye baby.

"There was once a little baby who lived all by himself. He washed himself, he cooked for himself, he even changed his own nappy..."

And the baby goes on a search for a Mummy.

My babies are 17, 19 and 21!

Mawsymoo · 24/06/2015 22:59

Anyone else get a bit choked up reading "Owl Babies" or is it just me? I think it's because I'm going off to work everyday and I hope that on some level my DS understands that I'll always come back to him!

marshmallowpies · 24/06/2015 23:02

I also do the '3 little kisses on the tip of the nose' - although yes, my love of 10 little fingers is rather compromised by the awareness that not ALL babies necessarily have them. The sentiment, though, of cuddling your own newborn and thinking of all the other babies being loved and cuddled and kissed all over the world at the same time, is lovely.

Paper Dolls I can't read at all without howling. It's the bit about the granny that gets me.

Fatmomma99 · 24/06/2015 23:03

I defy any parent to read "don't let go" and get to the end.

We tried all day and she never heard the final page. I tried about 4 or 5 times, and then my DH got up and said "oh, is soppy mummy crying. I'll read it to you" and he couldn't finish it either!
Luckily, my hard-hearted best friend came over that evening and so she was able to finish it and DD finally heard the end of the story. If left her unmoved.

That book certainly finished us!

RumbleMum · 24/06/2015 23:08

Oh God - I hadn't registered that about Peepo - will have to avoid it in future. I've just sobbed over the words to I'll Love You Forever having found them on the internet - there is NO way I could read that aloud!

One Ted Falls Out Of Bed gets me for no apparent reason. I've also just picked up a second hand copy of Catwings and flicked through to the end and sobbed for a solid ten minutes. DH is going to have to work from home for a week to read that to DS1 as there's no way I'm going to be able to!

WutheringFrights · 24/06/2015 23:10

"There's a house inside my mummy"
I have never ever managed to get through the last page without blubbing.
You do have to already have a child and be pregnant with another for it to work though...
Now that we are not having anymore I can't read it because it makes me cry for totally different reasons!