To think bedtime stories should not be emotional?!

[Cadela]

This is lighthearted!

Just read Dd the Paper Dolls and got slightly choked up at the boy chopping them up, full on holding back sobs at the memories bit with granny 😭 Trying to read a bedtime story with a massive lump in your throat is a nightmare!

The other one that does it to me is ‘The Girls’ when they all come back to the tree all grown up.

In my defence I’ve been an easy crier since pregnancy and happy to show Dd all emotions but sobbing during bedtime isn’t what I planned 😂

Is there a bedtime book that does it for you too?

Paper dolls is brutal. YANBU.

I need a ‘parental warning’ sticker on books like this, but instead of for swearing it’s for parents who are criers so we can read it first.

Ditto with hospital dog. We read it for the first time two weeks after a beloved family dog got hit by a car. Devastated 😭

No Matter What gets me - but not as much as Paper Dolls! That one truly wrecks me every time I read it

My dh’s friend first told us about paper dolls and he choked up while describing it.

Mine was 'I Will Love You Anyway' by Mick and Chloe Inkpen. It's about a disobedient dog but as a mother with a disobedient child I couldn't get through it without a lump in my throat. My son is 13 and I still can't bring myself to give it away.

I read paper dolls to my daughter for the first time not long after my mum received the news her cancer was incurable. The memories of granny wrecked me.

My youngest is 11 and I'm tearing up thinking of Paper Dolls! I'm not sure ill cope if BBC make that one...

Goodbye Mog.

Lovely, lovely book but I could never read it aloud.

Some Dogs Do...haven't read it aloud for over 10 years and still well up thinking about it!

Dogger

Daddy's Rainbow is one I can't bear to read. It's an amazing book though.

I sobbed when I first read Paper Dolls, now my DDs love getting that book out “to make mummy cry”! I’ll have to check out “The Girls” as I love an emotional bedtime story, so sadly I think YABU.

I can't speak when close to tears so none of these would be any good for me! I steer clear of anything heart-wrenching for reading out loud.

Guess How Much I Love You makes me cry.

We have all the Mog books except the last one. I've never seen it and i don't want to. I know what happens. Just thinking about it makes my lip wobble !! 😫

I got The Paper Dolls shortly after dad died and was often a blubby mess reading this.

Dogger. Took a lot of practice to be able to read it aloud.

for you and @menopausalmare

It is a tear jerker but in a good way. Same as Lion King and He Lives In You.

Dogger is happy, surely? Lovely Bella

I bought my son Paper Dolls for Christmas but had to donate it once I had flicked through it. The 'kind granny' bit was devastating and I weirdly think about it quite often!

I never even read Goodbye Mog, the Amazon blurb made me cry. DD was outraged by Charlotte’s Web. “Mummy! This is a sad book!”

Probably a bit differebt to the ones everyone else has lostef but I cried when I read the Lorax to my kids the first time, it made me regret bringing children into world we are destroying.

Aw I forgot all about paper dolls 😭

I read "Grandpa's island" to my son not long after my dad died and it was a big mistake 🥺

Oh dear, better not try Michael Rosen's Sad Book...

I can't read it aloud to my class. Just having a little weep thinking about it and the line

I loved him very very much but he died anyway

💕💕💕

The last chapter of The House at Pooh Corner ("In Which Christopher Robin and Pooh Come to an Enchanted Place and We Leave Them There") is heartbreaking 😢

God OP you are me! Even just reading this thread has my eyes welling up!!!