OMG wtf haev i done charlotte DIES and omg its so sad

[FluffyMummy123]

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My puppy goes to sleep like that.

I must have been a really horrible child! I read most of those books and never got upset at any of them . Maybe it was because I knew it was all fiction.
Nowadays it's a different matter though .

We have real life Chicken Licken - when your 6yo DD comes in with a headless chicken and casually announces "the fox has been again" then lip-trembling at Charlottes Web ain't gonna happen.

I sobbed out loud when I was reading DD1 the bit in Little House on the Prairie where Jack the faithful old dog dies. She looked at me as if I had come from distant galaxy and said 'Why are you crying?' 'Because it is so sad, darling.' 'But he was an old dog, Mummy.'
(Incidentally, in the TV series they made Jack COMPLETELY the wrong breed. He was a bulldog.)

Ah - she may have met her maker in my bathroom yesterday, but I fear it may have been the giant spider out of Harry Potter as the corpse wouldn't go down the plughole

RIP Charlotte

HAs anyone read Fairy Dreams by Gwyneth Rees? - it looks al girly adn lovley on teh cover..and indeed it is ac racking story about believing in fiaries....but then you realise that 'going to fairyland' is a euphemism for dying, which the girl's grandmother then does. The girls get to have tea with her Grandmother one alst time ..and that's where I lost it!

It's beautifully done - but OMG it should have a health warning for parents on it. (DD totally unmoved I might add!)

Has anyone else read The Crow Scarer? Think either Michael morpurgo or Dick King Smith

I cried at the end of Charlotte's Web because just when I thought I'd reached a nice safe arachnid-free conclusion, thousands of her babies come swarming out! Aaaaagh!!

I cant;t find the horse one anywhere

I've never read Charlotte's Web - but have always wanted to (be strong cs).
I am heartbroken about Mog though!!!
I cried buckets when Aslan died when I was a youngster too.

I saw it on stage - and I didn't know she died! Dd1 didn't warn me.

The horse one is the goose girl by the Brothers Grimm.

Yes, DD cried BUT we kept reading and the babies made her cheery again.

YES!
Thankyou Rosa¬!

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pelafina can you do the 18th? Lunchtime ish?

OMG Mog is dead? You've just ruined my weekend.
Although not a book - did anyone ever see the Rugrats episode where we find out what happened to Chuckie's Mum? I realise I am going back a long time.
All the kids sat there deadpan. All the grown ups were absolutely in pieces. Still can't watch it now.

Please, whatever you do, don't read any of Oscar Wilde's fairytales, then!

The Selfish Giant and The Happy Prince especially have me sobbing like a baby... oh God, I'm welling up now at the thought of the little crippled boy left in the garden at the end who turns out to be Jesus come to take him to heaven.... waaaah!!!

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watership down isnt sad, its horrific. the film i mean. they showed it to us at nursery... nightmares for months. maybe thats why i cant do horror films to this day? [ponders]

rofl at this thread. how could you not know charlotte dies? have vague intentions to write down names of all the books mentioned, but know i cant be arsed. oh well.

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I too sobbed - uncontrollably - when Mog died. I'd bought the book as an Xmas present for my stepdaughter too, and read it to her unawares (like, you don't think you'd need to check inside a Mog book FFS for "upsetting" content do you ?)

But spiders ..... pah. One less of the revolting things IMO. Good riddance !!