To be unable to read this book to my children?

[AudTheDeepMinded]

Took my 3 DSs to the museum today. Eldest is going to be learning about WWI soon and there was an exhibition about local soldiers. Bought a lovely book in the shop entitled 'Where the Poppies Now Grow' to share with them. Only I can't read it, I tear up on page one, my throat closes and I can't get the words out. It just makes me feel indescribably sad. I had the same problem with 'War Horse' and 'No Matter What'. Does anyone else have this problem or am I just very wet?

That episode of friends when Joey reads "I'll love you forever" and everyone cries.

Oh god Peepo. I was so excited to ds but had completely forgotten one of the dads looked like by recently deceased father. And one of the babies doesn’t have a daddy and there’s a strong independent mother doing it all (I was a single mother and a mess).

We are reading Peter Pan just now. Last nights chapter ended on “to die would be an big adventure” after Peter gallantly saves Wendy. I cried looked over and ds was crying. We had to watch 3 Dan TDM cids to calm down.

I used to get upset when Katy Morag lost her tiresome Ted.

Paper Dolls. Read it to my granddaughter and could barely finish it
DS thought it was hilarious until I reminded him of his Dogger meltdown.

I'm the same with kids book No matter what. I'm not a crier but can't get to the end!! Also been watching the haunting of hill house and rather than be scared find myself crying about the sister (no spoilers about what happens but it makes me cry about my personal experience. Why am I crying at a horror series!)

Nobody's mentioned Paper Dolls yet? [bawl]

BaldricksCoffee I've never seen War Horse, my husband has wanted to go for ages and has finally booked a single ticket as I just know I wouldn't be able to cope with it ...

Oh dear, I am almost as bad. DS got given a book by his Reception teacher at the end of the year, which was called Grandad's Bench and was about a kid whose grandad dies. Even though this was a year before my father went, I struggled with the end of it - and was a bit narked with the school for choosing it as a gift (as we had not suffered any bereavements...)

There's even a photo of DS that makes me well up, despite the fact that he is a perfectly healthy, happy teenager now - it was taken when he was 5 and his little friend was about 18 months, and it shows the two of them walking, hand in hand, towards a clump of trees. (The little friend is also a happy, healthy teen) Someone else looked at it after it was taken and said it was like Pooh and Piglet going back into the Enchanted Forest for the last time, which is probably why it has that effect on me.

Goodnight Mr Tom makes me sad. DT are doing it at school so we need to watch it together, tissues on standby

Ha! perfect cross post Howyoualldoworkme

The Selfish Giant, I always choke on the last page, sometime even before as I know what’s coming!

And the 'becoming real' bit in The Velveteen Rabbit
I had that at my second wedding

The night you were born and you were the first books always get me.

Fucking Goodbye Mog. I sobbed like an idiot in Waterstones and the assistant went and got me tissues.

Oh my goodness. No Matter What makes me cry. Not child related but I had the last couple of verses printed at the back of the order of service for my 94 year old Dad’s funeral. It wasn’t read out but just there for people to read themselves. So many people asked me where it was from and said that it made them cry.

Grandpa's Great Escape got me and my son (who has ASD) just laughed at me. The tv film of it at Christmas last year made me sob too.

I started reading War Horse in the lounge. Felt the tears coming about page 5 and moved to the bedroom so I could read it on my own. Cried most of the way through.

A few years later we came across it on tv. Just the last few minutes. I immediately realised what it was and promptly burst into tears, anticipating the ending. DP thought I'd lost the plot.

Bizarrely, the stage play didn’t have the same affect.

Also, The Places You’ll Go makes me upset, it’s not even a sad book ffs!!!

Ffs I'm a blubbering mess just reading this thread, I've not even read the books!

I absolutely loved Peepo - and give it as a present to new babies . Could barely get the words out when Matthew dies in Anne of Green Gables tho !

Ganster granny. Absolute tripe. Stuck it on for ds at Christmas time while I finished doing whatever. Lots of crap jokes and slapstick. And then the bloody granny dies after the boy reconnects with his own parents. Ds wandered off bored, I sobbed into my hot chocolate.

Charlotte's Web and the Boy in striped pyjamas I sob at.

Equally as bad with programmes- O cried at the advert for 22 July last night - a film based around the Norwegian terrorist Anders Brevik. Anything 9/11 gets me too as it was such a truly shocking day.

I remember reading a book with a class just after my dad died. Can't remember the name of the book but it had me so choked I had to leave my classroom x

Tried yet again to finish The Selfish Giant last night. "You let me play in your garden, today I am bringing you to my garden - IN PARADISE"

Waaaaahhh! Big snotty gasps.

DS didn't even notice, probably trying to surreptitiously pick his nose again, the little scut.

'Guess how much I love you'.... Cried all those years ago when I read it over and over to DS, now 14. Still chokes me. Mind you, I cried in the cinema today. At the bloody Lloyd's Bank advert. Again...

I didn't know there was a goodbye mog book! I'm now in floods having read the Amazon listing