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

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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

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

The Toymaker by Martin Waddell is the one that gets me every time. And Goodbye Mog .

Gentle Willow always sets me off, too, but that was written to explain death to a terminally ill child so hardly surprising.

hate bloody "guess how much I love you" blooming competitive parent. Poor little hare always has to be topped by dad.
Peepo does it for me every time.

Lucy's Star.

I was given this by someone to read to dd1 after the loss of dd2. So very sad but so very special.

Mine is The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit. The monster doesn't have a friend so makes a rabbit out of stone and they play together every day, and through the book the monster gets older and older, until one day he doesn't come out of the cave. The last page is the stone rabbit, obviously untouched for decades, covered in overgrown shrubs.

I think it's so sad because it's so understated but it makes me howl. I've had to hide it on the shelve because it makes me want to cry every time I see the cover.

Shelf, pissing phone.

'Me' by Emma Dodd (I think). Lovely.

I just received Once there were Giants through from Amazon. I started to wobble at page one, lost it completely when she met Dan, haven't been able to finish...! Thank God I have a DS or I don't think I'd have even made it that far.

Once there were Giants, Cant you sleep little Bear, When the Teddy Bears Came are all really lovely books. The Jane Hissey Old Bear books are very sweet as well, both dc loved them.

YANBU. Some Dogs Do though...that makes me sob!

Get it.

Oh gosh and Beegu! About a small alien who gets left behind on earth and tries to fit in...devestating!

Gennz, I'm with you. Who sends four fucking diggers into a residential backyard? Bloody O'Reilly men builders, that's who. I love oi frog and the story of the little mole who knew that it was none of his business.

Nice to hear the back story of peepo. I must be a cold hearted wench, never cry at these books. However dh and I cannot make it through the first ten minutes of Up without wailing.

Mole and the Baby Bird.

Gets me everytime and I am NOT a sobber. It's very deep; he adores that bird but he has to let it go because it's not happy. I think it's written for the parents tbh.

Huge yes to Beegu, TheHouse. Won't read that one unless I'm wearing waterproof mascara.

While Dogger makes me sniff a little when "Bella did something very kind", I mostly just like sniggering to myself about the fact there's a kids' book called Dogger.

On the night you were born, by Nancy Tilman. I cried when I had my newborn and read this to her. I still tear up now.

On the night you were born,
The moon smiled with such wonder
That the stars peeked in to see you
And the night wind whispered,
?Life will never be the same.?
Because there had never been anyone like you?ever in the world.
So enchanted with you were the wind and the rain
That they whispered the sound of your wonderful name.
It sailed through the farmland
High on the breeze?
Over the ocean?
And through the trees?
Until everyone heard it
And everyone knew
Of the one and only ever you.
Not once had there been such eyes,
Such a nose,
Such silly, wiggly, wonderful toes.
When the polar bears heard,
They danced until dawn.
From faraway places,
The geese flew home.
The moon stayed up until
Morning next day.
And none of the ladybugs flew away.
So whenever you doubt just how special you are
And you wonder who loves you, how much and how far,
Listen for geese honking high in the sky.
(They?re singing a song to remember you by.)
Or notice the bears asleep at the zoo.
(It?s because they?ve been dancing all night for you!)
Or drift off to sleep to the sound of the wind.
(Listen closely?it?s whispering your name again!)
If the moon stays up until morning one day,
Or a ladybug lands and decides to stay,
Or a little bird sits at your window awhile,
It?s because they?re all hoping to see you smile?
For never before in story or rhyme
(not even once upon a time)
Has the world ever known a you, my friend,
And it never will, not ever again?
Heaven blew every trumpet
And played every horn
On the wonderful, marvelous
Night you were born.

mine is "i love you blue kangeroo"

Peepo makes me snivelly, but more as it was a book my mum loved reading to children, and she so looked forward to reading it to a grandchild. She can't read now, and it makes me think of her, and her waiting for her daddy to come back from sea.

The book that really, really makes me bawl is The Christmas Miracle of Jonathon Toomey. Just thinking about it makes me cry in fact.

Giraffe's Can't Dance

"Sometimes when we're different we just need a different song"

Howls

For me it's Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson.

Oh yes we all can dance when we find music that we love

I agree with lots of pp. 'I love you forwever' had me crying so much when I first read to DS that I could not get the words out. Still well up thinking about it.

I don't cry and films or books usually.

I bought the Miffy book 'Dear Grandma Bunny' for my DS when my mum died, but to this day I am completely unable to get to the end of it, in fact I can barely manage half way

It's not a book but I dare anyone to watch 'Lost and Found' and not cry.

Love You Forever (gulp). It'd be even worse if I actually had a boy.

And, for older readers, the bit at the beginning of By The Shores of Silver Lake when the dog dies - DD and I were HOWLING. 'He's gone to the happy hunting grounds'

Good bye Mog made me cry in a bookshop. I have now managed to read it to ds without tears.

Try keep love in your heart little one, gets me every time.