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?

my Aunt is from Michigan but now lives in the UK. she told me about a book called the tenth great thing about Barney(?) i was a mess just listening to her talk about ut!!!!!!

I cry at any emotional bit. I am susceptible to moments of ceremony and occasion as well as to genuinely sad parts. Peepo, definitely but mine are too old for that now. Poetry. I am about to get to the stone table bit in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe with dd2 so that will be difficult. The other night I was reading The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate and made dd cry. Dd2 nearly cried reading The Dinosaur's Packed Lunch last night because she felt so much for the poor girl who wakes up as a dinosaur and finds it really awkward to hug her dad.

Oh God, I remember reading the Boy In the Striped Pyjamas (to myself ,and not much children!!). My friends had just popped round and only had a few pages left so wanted to quickly finish it ,didn't realise the ending would turn me into a blubbering mess in front of everyone!! It was so unexpected as well, you truly thought he'd escape the camp

*not MY children

What a terrible book!

For me it's "Some Dogs Do" about a dog that can fly only nobody believes him when he tells the other dogs at school.

He goes home to his Dad all dejected and tells him the others laughed...and his Dad sweeps him into the sky and the last lines are "Some dogs do...and some dogs don't."

Ah....shivers I tell thee!

I remember my parents sobbing through black beauty while I remained dry eyed. A generation on I left the room while the audiobook was on. Kids were dry eyed. It's an age thing.

I couldn't listen to that Children in Need song. "How long will I love you..." ach, turn the radio off or I'll crash the car as I'm crying!
Ds1 is five and can't watch Toy Story 3, it's just too upsetting. He's watched all 3 original Star Wars films practically without blinking, but not Toy Story 3. If he wants to watch Up, I busy myself doing something else during the first bit. Just can't deal with it.
Recently Ds1 brought a book home from the school library called "Zoo". I could not read it - I found it upsetting at the parents in the story were so unpleasant I wanted to cry. Dh read it once and agreed with me, though he didn't cry. It's a daft dinosaur story this week, thank goodness.

Another one here for Paper Dolls, I've left it at Granny's.

Don't Let Go!: Jeanne Willis, Tony Ross. My daughter puts her hand over the picture of the Dad with a big teardrop in his eye for me now .. if I even reach that far without welling up.

Another book is one I bought after seeing it recommended on here called Someday, it starts off all lovely. . .and then!!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_xuxcNcteTY

Oh my god! That has got me weeping. The bit about " I will see you brushing your child's hair ". Waaah!

I know! That one has to stay hidden!!

I don't even have kids yet and I'm a blubbery mess! Have to fast forward Up and can't watch Inside Out because it hits a funny nerve and I can't help crying.

There was a book my Mum and I used to read together called The Bear That Nobody Wanted by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, that needed a lot of tissues between us!

My Dad tried to read The Little Match Girl to me but had tears in his eyes so said I had to finish it myself. One of the very rare occasions I've seen him cry. He also warned me before I read Animal Farm that I'd need a box of tissues because even he had to shed a tear when Boxer is taken away.

Has no one mentioned Private Peaceful? Just having DS telling me the premise of the story had me in tears!

Can I recommend the Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde? Although written for children, they have deeply adult themes and are highly moral. Several of them make me cry, but The Nightingale & the Rose unfailingly has me sobbing and breaks my heart.

The prose is exquisite in all the stories. Of the dying nightingale's song: “Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals to the cold morning air. Echo bore it to her purple cavern in the hills, and woke the sleeping shepherds from their dreams. It floated through the reeds of the river, and they carried its message to the sea.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose

You will probably know some of his stories without realising that they were written by Oscar Wilde; 'The Selfish Giant', 'The Happy Prince', etc. All wonderful and your children will remember them for ever....

Once there were giants used to get me sobbing every time to the distress of my kids. Even The Big Big Sea used to get me quite emotional. I think I'm tougher now.

I've been dreadful for this ever since I had DC. Dogger, Guess How Much I Love You, Dumbo, Goodnight Mog, Owl Babies, Peepo, Charlotte's Web (though I never read that to DC, DD read it herself), Up - you name it, I've cried at it. I'm glad that DC are now teenagers, so I no longer read to them.

And as for Once There Were Giants - I collapse in a heap. My favourite ever picture book - can you tell?

Watership Down.I read it and watched it as a child and cried at both.

Yes, paper dolls for me, particularly the kind granny - mostly because I miss my granny still, but my mum has signed herself out of DCs lives and they'll never have kind granny memories.
I cried when the whale was rescued in the snail and the whale … sop!

There is a book called "Once there were giants" that I used to read to my two. I read it to year 2 the other day and welled up!

Just realised it's just been mentioned! I can never read that in class again. Although they all loved it and it really is beautiful. We had a lovely discussion about growing up afterwards.

Phleb my class were donated a box of books so I pulled out " once there were Giants" I had never heard of it but my god I was holding it in by the end. Have a 14 month old little girl and ordered it for her that night.

Mine are grown ups now so it was Toy Story 3 that had me blubbing in the cinema.

Swits, my class made it worse! They were all going "I remember when I was only a baby!" and "When I'm big I'm staying with my mummy!" They loved it though. The pictures are beautiful, there's so much to talk about in them. I use it as part of the PSHE module on changes and they bring in pictures of themselves as babies. Every so often I can get my two at home to submit to picture books ( usually when ill) and it always comes out then, along with the photo album.

Lemon Redwood - Goodnight Mr Tom is devastating in parts! Fabulous but heartbreaking

The Emily brown book where she steals Stanley! (For the first time in her life there was No Stanley!) and then at the end where she just says 'thank you' I can't read it without my voice wobbling!! When Bernard Cribbins read it on cbeebies it set me off 😥