Am I a soppy cow or is ds made of stone?

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I've been reading ds Gangsta Granny and granny has just died, the little boy is talking to Grannies cousin who tells him how he was the light of his grans life, and Friday nights when he stayed were the highlight of her week. Then he cycles to his grannies in the snow for 'one last time' her post is all piled up and a for sale sign outside.

I'm there blubbing and ds is just looking at me like I'm a complete weirdo.

I haven't been so upset since Charlottes web.

I'm a complete wimp aren't I?

Dilly Duckling!!
Dilly loses a feather, without knowing that it's a natural part of growing up, and chases it everywhere to try and get it back. In the end she admits defeat, and just sits and cries.....
12 years later, DD still talks about the book that made me and her sob......poor little duck😓

It's Dogger that did it for me; my DS used to look up at me in anticipation of the imminent tears when my voice started to go wobbly.

Try when they get a bit older and you have to read the death of Dobby in Harry Potter

Ruby by Maggie Glen reduces me to a soggy mess. Ruby is a bear made by a day dreaming machinist. She isn't up to standard and gets put in the reject box. She orchestrates an escape from the factory with the other rejects.

'They ran silently,swiftly,through the night and into the day. Some ran to the country,some to the town. Some squeezed through letterboxes. Some slipped through open windows. Some hid in toy cupboards. Some crept into bed with lonely children' …….the lonely children bit gets me every time

Some gave dd1 a total cheese fest book called The Night you were Born. I had just started to manage to read it to dd1 without crying when dd2 came along and now it makes me sob again.

"heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born" 😢

There's a book called something like 'Badger's gifts' can't quite remember but it's specifically about badger dying and it's very affecting- for me, not so much for DC

My dd was so inconsolable at the end of The demon dentist where dad dies that I had to fib and say David Walliams was currently writing the sequel where it's revealed that dad didn't actually die after all...he manages to climb out of the mine shaft and is fine.

Two years later she still asks me when it's going to be published, she's frightened to re read it without the sequel at hand...think she'll have a long wait!

Anne of Green Gables has just had me & the dds in floods. DD1 is well hard, didn't cry at dobbys death (but was outraged) but even she welled up and had to furtively wipe away her tears. DD2 was sobbing, I could barely read...

Agree dogger is the worst though, it's got a happy ending so not sure why it's so emotionally charged!

As well as some of the ones already posted here, it's 'Some Dogs Do' for me. For those that don't know, it's about a dog that can fly. I don't think it's even meant to be a tearjerker! It's the ending that gets me, just brings home all the opportunities and adventure that lie ahead for my little people. I'm a wreck at the end every time! I've read it so often to my kids now 9, 10 and 12 that I know it off by heart. One of my very favourite children's books.

Do you remember any books finishing your parents off?

I have a childhood memory of my mum trying to read us Matthew Arnold's poem The Forsaken Merman don't ask me why and welling up every time. It's about a merman who marries a mortal woman who leaves him, and once a year he and the mer-kids come up to the surface and call for her ...

Dogger for me too seamstress!

First time I read stickman I cried.

I was pregnant with DS2 so that's my excuse

I am welling up just reading this thread

I read gangsta granny with a rufty tufty boy that I taught on a 1:1 basis after being excluded from school. I cried so much! He looked terrified and said "what do I do??"

Bunch of vipers got me welling up just reading the thread!!
I'm pregnant tho, that's my excuse. The book about the night you were born I've never heard off, but I have tears rolling down my cheeks imagining it!

I was a librarian when Goodbye Mog was published. The other librarian working with me wouldn't put it on the shelf because it was too distressing!

Paper dolls gets me every single time. Its the kind granny in her memory. It breaks my heart.

Paper Dolls got me good and very unexpectedly. The kind granny. 😭

Im crying and Im not even pregnant. I cried at most of the harry potter deaths, and the line 'last laugh still etched upon his face' destroys me. Not a childrens book but i tried to read p.s i love you when pregnant i was howling anr didnt get past the first chaptet

Dogger, stickman!
DS1 and I read Gangsta Granny together not long after I finished cancer treatment. We were both in bits. DS has trouble with any book or film where a character loses a parent now. We had quite a few tears over an episode of Abney and Teal. He's 8. Poor wee lad.

DS didn't care about Granny dying either, I didn't realise until a friend told me that that's what happens at the end. He finished the book and then asked whether he could buy Ratburger with his pocket money.
If it had been a dog he might have been upset though, he cries at RSPCA ads.

I have a few Harry Potter ones not surprisingly.

After cedric died and his dad shouting 'my boy'.

When Molly hugs Harry and it says 'he had no memory of being hugged by a mother.'

When Molly kills bellatrix and screams 'not my daughter you bitch'

My mother used to read me "the little match girl" when I was young, and I'd hate it, she couldn't get half way through without crying. She'd call me stone hearted, regularly as I never cried at sad things, books, films etc. I remained cold hearted until I had my ds, now I cry at anything.

My DD, who is an emotional wee thing looked at me quite mystified as I sniffles my way through Gangsta Granny crying.

I held it together just barely) when Cedric died but both DC thought it was highly entertaining.

I've told DD the Anne of Green Gables and Little Women are for when she's free reading. I'll supply the tissues for her - I just can't go through Matthew and Beth again.