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 have a book called "A friend for little bear". It's about a bear who is stuck on an island and is lonely then a wooden horse floats by. He is overjoyed, they become friends and play on the island, then loads of other stuff comes floating by. The bear collects all the stuff but forgets about his friend and the horse falls off the island and flots away. The analogy is so poignant it makes me blub every time. There is a happy ending though!

I always thought I was a freak for crying over Peepo! So glad I'm not the only one. House at pooh corner gets me too, only read it to dd1 so far, got dd 2&3 to go yet .

"We have one called "Once there were Giants", which is about the circle of life- the baby grows into a little girl etc and at the end she has a baby of her own. I cannot read it without crying. DD has no idea what's going on, and thinks I'm ridiculous."

Everything by Martin Waddell should come with a warning! Have you read The Big Big Sea?

Gasgsta Granny got me at the end as well, i was slightly more prepared for the grandpa one!!

Watched Marley and me with dd the other night and was slightly perturbed that she didn't cry at the end I was proper sobbing however she can't read Puff the Magic Dragon without weeping!!

Yy to Dogger, Toy story 3, Goodnight Mr Tom was the first book I ever read that made me cry when i was about 11.

War horse had me sniveling and snotting.....

YY to Paper Dolls.

No Matter What by Debi Gliori always gets me. 'What when I am dead and gone? Will you love me then? Does love go on? ' Waaaaaaaah!

Owl Babies had my two year old hysterical and refusing to leave me for days.

The point of owl babies is that the mum does come back though bummy!! I found it useful when dd started nursery as a way of explaining that I had to go to work but would always come back.

Oh God help me Peepo! It's just too, too poignant!

I have read Peepo so many times over the last few years but never thought the dad was going to war so didn't find it particularly touching / sad. Is that definitely fact?! I guess I assumed he was some kind of Dad's Army character

Peeps bores me witless. Never realised the Dad was off to war...?

Lots of books make me cry. I'm a big fat softy 😁

reading the op made me well up

Apparently Peepo is about the last time Allan Ahlberg saw his father. AA is the baby.

BikeRunSki. Thank fuck I didn't know that in my Peepo years!! Mind you, it might have given me good reason to hide it, I didn't think my boredom was a good enough reason for it to join the growing pile of hidden books that had mysteriously gone missing

I just said "Here's a little baby...." to my ds- and he recited the whole book, and went a little teary eyed. He's 15...........

So don't worry, OP- it's all going in and building your ds's foundations"!

Sorry ExtraHotLatteToGo. We all have magically dissappering books.

Oh no, I am devastated about Peepo!!

It's DS' absolute favourite book at the moment, I read it to him several times a day. I knew it was set in WW2 but for some reason had convinced myself that the father was just on night duty in the neighbourhood (didn't they have night wardens?) and not going off to war.

Now that I know the truth I don't think I will be able to read it again!! I've already turned into a blubbering mess about so many other things since having DS...

I know Girlie but he wasn't having it. The leaving in the first place was clearly enough. He really likes Owls. Maybe that didn't help.

I read on here Mog was dead I found good night mog at work and sobbed and sobbed im such a wuss

Paper dolls was bought for my dd1 when we lost dd2. Over a year later (and it was fab for a while so I've read it loads) I still choke up.

No matter what was a reading at dd2s service and we have the line 'love, like starlight, never dies' on her plaque. I have the book in her box. I've never read it to dd1, it leaves me in heaving sobs whenever I read it to myself.

Guess how much I love you doesn't bother me. DH and I both hate it and it's become famous in our house as a wind up; 'daddy would live to read it to you' that serves him right for teasing me earlier

After we lost ds we bought dd1 'we were going to have a baby but we had an angel instead' brilliant factual book but unsurprisingly gets me every time. Dd1 knows it off by heart and reads it to herself now which somehow is even more heartbreaking!

I can't read 'the selfish giant' to my class without crying.

Oh and dr Suess my many coloured days. Someone suggested it to me after my bipolar/bpd dx. I cry every time I read it now!

Oh god! This thread should have a tearjerk warning! Badgers parting gift, Charlotte's Web, watership down, first ten minutes of Up, the railway children,

Worst part in Harry Potter though, when Hedwig dies trying to protect Harry. I'm filling up now! I can do Dumbledore and the whole Snape death admittedly not since Alan Rickman has passed away but Hedwig, I cried buckets! I'm crying now! Pregnant and emotional

Watership Down can just fuck off.

I cry at everything (buckets reading this thread). The film that gets me in a hopeless heap is the Lion King. My kids turn to look at me at The Moment to watch me cry. Mean kids.

I can't read Dogger to my son as I start to cry half way through it.

Dobbys death really got me in HP as did Tonks and Lupin.