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?

We've been reading The Paper Dolls this week, every time I read it I see something else to make it more sad! Tried to use it to explain memories to nearly 4 yo DS, in particular about our dog who we lost before Christmas. But he just keeps going back to the boy and his scissors and laughing about the dolls being snipped up!! Disturbing!

The paper dolls and dogger has me every time, also definately once there were Giants. Can't recall the name of it at the moment, something along the lines of "what can baby see" and his dad's going off the be a soldier

Oh god, the Little Match girl. I had completely forgotten how sad it was and read it as part of a few Christmas stories to my sons on Christmas Eve. God, I blubbed. The kids were, like, . I tried to explain through my tears but got more hysterical:

"We are so lucky with our nice and our real Christmas tree and our presents waiting and fairy lights and yummy food to eat, and the poor little match girl had nothing and no-one! And she used her very last match that she could have sold because she just wanted to have a teeny tiny bit of comforting warmth as she lay down to die!!" Oh god, it's setting me off now. My boys just said "er, mum, I think we need to read a happier book now."

Christ, yes, Cedric's dad rushing to his son's body and shouting and the stunned, silent crowd just watching.

Both book and film traumatised me during that scene.

I want to read His Dark Materials to the kids but not sure I could manage the scene where Lyra and Pan have to separate while she crosses to the world of the dead place. The trauma and emotion they felt is so well described I could feel it myself, how it was like a piece of them yanked from their body and mind. I think it put me in mind of one of my children being taken from me and it was unbearable. I don't think I could read it to my kids without snotty sobbing and heaving.

I cried in front of my class while reading Goodnight Mister Tom to them

Do you mean Peepo stepped? That makes me sob too. It completely went over my head as a child that the dad was going off to war

Yes and Stepped, Peepo gets me every time. A tear in my eye now just thinking about it! I think it's the simplicity and innocence of the family just getting on with life in WW2. Instead of masses of toys the baby just has his teddy and his ball -which little children were happy with right up to the 1960s.
The family are shown just how they are, content with what they have and happy with each other in the kind of home that ordinary people had.
I went to a talk by lovely Allan Ahlberg and he said a lot about Peepo. The publisher didn't want the barrage balloon pictured because 'today's children won't know what it was' but he insisted that it stayed. His response to the publisher was 'what is a tuffet then, do they know what that is in Little Miss Muffet?!'
His autobiographical book The Bucket is beautiful too. There's a poem about his adoptive mother bringing him home on the train from Battersea to the Black Country with a line 'brand new mother, secondhand child' 😥

Black Beauty - couldn't read it to my children as I sobbed so much when it as read to me as a child!

God yes The House at Pooh Corner is the worst- the ending bit where Christopher Robin leaves childhood behind has me in pieces. And every Harry Potter book makes me cry: I cry when Neville gets the housepoints at the end of Philosopher's Stone,and the bit where Harry realises that the Patronus wasn't his father's, but his own. And the other night I was reading Snape's death to my dd - it had never dawned on me that the reason he asks Harry to look at him is so that the last thing he sees is 'Lily's' eyes. I was off again.

'Mogg's Gone' saw it in the library, couldn't bring myself to even pick it up.

'Mogg the forgetful cat' was my favourite book as a child. Tearful just thinking about it.

Liska, yes I can't even think about the ending of the House at Pooh Corner without tearing up

Julia Donaldson The Paperdolls always gets me...

DP fell asleep the other month halfway through watching Song of the Sea, a beautiful animated film www.imdb.com/title/tt1865505/

When she woke up she found DD1 (8) and I both blubbing our hearts out.

I am a big strong bearded 48 year old man.

[Up and Toy Story 3 got me too]

Peeping and Dogger do me every time. I won't even read Dogger these days!
The Little Match Girl did for me when I found my old Hans Christian Anderson fairytale book with beautiful illustrations - the main picture for the story is of the smiling little girl flying up to heaven in the arms of her Mum.
I actually welled up typing that..

'I'll Love You Forever' by Roger Knapp - I can hardly even type it without filling up. I had to take it out of DS's book box when she was little because I couldn't read it to her without bawling.

'Grandpa's Great Adventure' by David Walliams. Actually couldn't get the words out at the end.

Never used to be like this!

Peepo sorry, bad typing there!

Dd and I are blubbers. Inside out, the velveteen rabbit, odd life of Timothy green. Dh leaves the room if marley and me comes on aftee he cried buckets after watching it.
Book wise the little match girl definitely. Railway children, the diary of Anne Frank anything slightly emotional and I'm off
Goodbye mog does not exist to us, I'd never recover

The one that used to kill me was 'Oh, the Places You'll Go!'. And I know some people find it creepy, but I struggled to get through 'Love You Forever' without my face crumpling - DD used to have to finish it for me appropriately enough! This thread is tearing me up!

I could fill a whole thread with kids films that make me cry but books are less likely to do so having said that

I forgot to say I love you - about a mummy bear and a ds bear are trying to get out the door for nursery and work and the mummy bear forgets to say I love you before she leaves for work because the morning has been so trying and exhausting. Tears every single time.

The other kid's have been War Horse, Harry Potter when Dobby dies, Carrie's War, Dogger, and the Railway Children .

Try living in the States. It's awful. They design books to make you cry. There's a whole range ffs.

Someone mentioned on the night you were born. There's also- the crown on your head, wherever you are my love will find you, you are here for a reason, etc etc

They give these to hormonal women who've just given birth. I was an emotional fucking wreck and this series of books damn near tipped me over the sanity edge.

And the worst thing, these fuckers would smile smugly as you read it aloud in front of them (as they insisted) whilst you were clutching your newborn and soaking it in tears of anguish. Pricks.

Another book that slays me is The Old Woman That Named things which is lovely but about an old woman who's had everyone die in her life so she keeps scaring a stray puppy off even though she's completely alone and loves it.

Yes The Places You'll Go is in that series too. Bastards.

The Love in my heart, Mummy do you love me?, Guess how much i love you. even Tabby McTat!!!!!

I was dismayed when The Snow Dog came out a few years ago as I'd only just got over The Snowman!

I'm a massive blubber, Up, Inside Out, Toy Story 2 & 3, especially 3, to name but a few. I cry as soon as they start with the knowledge of what's to come. My 9yo DD is just the same and I'm no help to her whatsoever. We come out of the cinema sobbing together!