Weeping tears and snot

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My children (aged 14, 12 and 9) for some reason asked me to read me some of their toddler books this evening. We started with Owl Babies, which they loved but which always made them cry, then they asked for Paper Dolls, which they loved but always made me cry. I must have been able to exercise more self control when they were little, but when I read it to them this evening I couldn’t hold back the tears. AIBU to weep every time I read this? It made Ds1 cry too. Are there any other toddler books which are so much of an emotional rollercoaster?

Granpa

Paper dolls makes me cry. Stick Man used to make DD1 cry when she was a toddler.

Paper dolls makes me cry I remember reading it to my dd the night before she started school and I sobbed lying in bed next to her

I second Granpa. I had the film as a child and just thinking of it makes me cry.
Also “love you forever”- I sob reading it and my DS took it to school and made his teacher cry

I remember reading Quaky Cat to my two, and them telling me to stop with the silly voices. I was trying so hard not to weep tears and snot. Not particularly successfully as it turned out.

I always hear on here that Paper Dolls makes people cry, I read it to dd and it seems like a happy book (in the end). What is it that makes people cry?

I thought the Paper Dolls was dull! None of my DC have liked it (thankfully!)

Goodbye Mog always makes me feel a bit weepy

Oh god - Goodbye Mog
Also The velveteen rabbit and The Owl who was afraid of the dark.

No Matter What by Debra Gliori. And my children are adults now! Can still recite most of it.

Goodbye Mog and The Velveteen Rabbit are brutal. I made the mistake of looking at the first few pages of Goodbye Mog in the bookshop.

“Let’s Get a Pup!” by Bob Graham. Any family who loves their dog will relate to and be moved by this book. I get weepy every time I read of Rosie the old rescue dog and her happy ending.

Dogger gives me a lump in my throat

Moon rabbit - can’t even talk about it without a lump in my throat. Last read it when eldest started primary school and had to hide my tears from them. Came downstairs and bawled my eyes out.

I had to console a shop attendant that I bought 'Goodbye Mog' from. He didn't realise that Mog got snuffed. He was really pretty much in tears.

No matter what

As well as the Debi Gliori mentioned above ‘Once There Were Giants’.....

The Little Match Girl.

I can't even think about No matter what" without getting a yearly tingle. "Love like starlight never dies (sob)". Also, the last page of "Annie Rose is my little sister" also makes me weep.

Hugless Douglas

Guess how much I love you

Omg I thought I had managed to control my emotions while reading Paper Dolls til I became pregnant again. Had to put a ban on it til my hormones are more stable 🙈 The bit about the kind granny in her memory always makes me teary because it makes me remember my granny and makes me sad that someday my mum will be a memory for my kids. Yikes I'm bawling again now at the thought of it 😭

The Lion Who Wanted To Love

Oh god, everything. Even non-sad books used to make me cry.

I couldn’t get through the line in Peepo - ‘he sees the bedroom mirror with its rainbow rim, & a mother with a baby just like him’ without a sob. And it’s not even a sad story!

mole and the baby bird

Omg. Read it twice at school to the class. Cried both times, much to the bemusement of the 4 year olds!