To be unable to read this book to my children?

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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?

Theres a book I keep seeing in shops - Grandads Island, or something? And spoiler alert, the island is Heaven and he stays on the Island forever?

Thank you but FUCK NO.

The paper dolls. Every. Single. Time.

I'm another one who sobs at Paper Dolls. I am soppy though, for some reason the Tee and Mo bedtime song also makes me howl!

I cry at the dog's trust advert with the little knitted people.

Can I join the Can't Read Dogger group?
That and James Herriot kids' picture books. All of them it would seem. Christmas Day Kitten, and that one with the old farmer and two retired horses.

My children now just look at me like 

Another one who blubs at Dogger and Goodbye Mog! And anything really. It only really started when I was pregnant with my daughter and hasn't stopped since! Especially with sad news articles.

It seems DD may have inherited it - when the cinema lights went up at the end of the cartoon Beauty and the Beast I was desperately hoping no one would notice I was weeping copiously as I felt such a fool! Then I looked at DD and realised she was doing the same! Just at that moment a friend appeared: "Oh hello, fancy seeing you here!" ... silence ... neither DD nor I could speak! 

marmite I also cried at Haunting of Hill House, I know the bit you mean 

Good-bye mog had me in tears on the shop floor when I worked in a bookshop. Until the Glaswegian manager renamed it, 'Mog's Deid'. That took the sad edge off somewhat....

I bought a load of books at a car boot. There was one called Rosalie about an old dog. The bit where the dad strokes her head and sighs got me every time. Youngest loved it and kept asking for it.

Oh god that song OP. My great grandmother started working part time in a Dundee mill at the age of NINE and I'll bet her sixpence a week wage helped keep the family fed.

Peepo, Goodnight Mr Tom and The Velveteen Rabbit

Oh the fucking Tee and MO bedtime song.

In. Bits.

I was writing some panels for a local museum about our very own war horse who is buried in a nearby village. He made it all the way through the war and came back home. I sobbed like a baby all the way through my writing!

I was visiting family in the US, and my nephew had a book about a family who'd moved and left their cat behind, locked in the apartment. I couldn't read I to him.

The TV adaptation about 8 or so years ago of Anne Frank's diary was very emotional. It was just heartbreaking when they were being marched out of the annex and subtitles told you what became of them. Much harder hitting than the book for some reason even though obviously the book is the original diary.

Anyone remember the old Casper the friendly ghost where he befriends a fox? 😢

I can’t let myself think about The Velveteen Rabbit for too long, never mind actually read it (not that I’ve any cause to).

As a teenager I once scared my father half to death by being unable to speak I was sobbing so hard when got home one afternoon. I was curled up on the sofa, absolutely in bits, eventually had to thrust a copy of The Final Journey at him to reassure him that I wasn’t either in unbearable pain or receipt of news of death of close family/friend. Clearly a book about the Holocaust isn’t written for the laughs, but never before or since have I read something that’s made me react like that...

Goodbye Mog, I'm tearing up just thinking about it 😢

Nothing by Mick Inkpen.

I can't sing along to 'Rockabye'. Choke every time. Nobody matters like you...

When the Twin Towers were destroyed and Bush and Blair were in cahoots to have another war I kept singing "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" to dd - who was 3 - but I kept tearing up and rarely managed to finish it.

Flashing beacon snap I took DS to see the play sob fest he was highly embarrassed of me crying for my Granny that died when he was one. I miss her every day 😢

medusa The film 22nd July is excellent. Really moving and emotional but also factual and shows the impact the terrorist had on the victims and their families. I did cry for most of it though.

Me and dh blubbered like babies at a scene from the new jurrasic park film. It was ridiculous!

I had no problem with Dogger, Peepo and No Matter What.
But I can’t manage “The Paper Dolls”. And when DD (then aged 5 or 6) read it to me, I was howling.

YADNBU War Horse has me in tears as does Goodbye Mog...