to not be able to read The Velveteen Rabbit to my DC

[pjmama]

...without bawling my head off?!

Have I just turned into a big soppy ball of mush since having children? It seems like the slightest bit of anything sentimental sets me off like a flippin' fountain. I was always a bit wet, but I seem to just cry at the drop of a hat now! I'm dreading things like school plays when they're bigger - please tell me I won't be the only one blowing my nose loudly and sobbing like baby?!

Am I just pathetic or are we all a bit like this?!

Depending on hormone levels the last line of 'I Love You As Big As The World' - "I love you because you are you"...can get me a bit sniffly

I sympathise - I just brought home some of my childhood books from my mums to read to ds and found one called the christmas kitten by james herriot. oh my god by about the fourth page I was howling as the Mummy cat brought her kitten to the farmhouse and then she died on the hearth rug, on christmas day! It had a happy ending but I won't ever be able to read it again...

Lol @ Edinburger!
Love you Forever also makes me sob-but I agree the bit about her breaking into her grown up son's house while he's asleep and crawling across the floor to cuddle him is hilarious!!

Badger's Parting Gifts anyone?

Or how about Granpa?

"Granpa can't come out to play today"

Followed by his empty chair.

weep

Pranma agree about 'No Matter What'. DD was given it some years ago in a gift set with matching cuddly toy, although now lost in the big pile of cuddlies

Oh and 'Good Days, Bad Days' where they bury the dead hamster! (no words, the picture says it all)

Never read it....Christmas list!

My introduction to the Velveteen Rabbit was a 'talking book' from the library for DD1 when she was about 7 or 8. I'd never heard of it & we both listened to the story, read by John le Mesurier, spellbound and tearful.

I later bought the book & still have it, years later. It's a beautiful story.

This book makes me cry to think about it and I haven't read it since I was a child. I saw it as a speaking book in the library recently and was so glad it was on tape (we don't have a tape player anymore) so I couldn't blub in front of the children

Oh Edinburger - you couldn't be more right.
'I love you forever' surely the most lump in throat book ever. (yes, the bit with the ladder is odd, but I just blip over that part!)

Apart from the Velveteen Rabbit - sob.

Has anyone read 'When the sky is like Lace?'

That makes me sob as it is so beautiful.

Oh God, Badger's Parting Gift..... But there is something fantastic about a book moving you to tears. I remember my English teacher at a very rough girls comprehensive crying her eyes out at the end of "A Tale of Two Cities" - she inspired me greatly. My DS cried at "Jack and the Beanstalk" a couple of years ago, when they had to sell the cow......

Oh god, the Velveteen Rabbit makes me cry buckets. Even reading the excerpt had me welling up. If I was stupid enough to read it out loud I would cry and cry and cry. See also 'Are you my mother?', 'Owl Babies', 'Puff the Magic Dragon' and 'Tatty Ratty'. I am a terrible wuss. I still sob at the thought of those Carphone Warehouse ads with the poor tiny abandoned phone.

Dogger. Can't read it. My child hood copy is on the shelf for when the baby is big enough and I don't think I'll be able to do it.

And Badger's parting gifts. I recommend it to patients who want to talk to their children about death but always warn them i can't read it myself.

Another vote for Dogger here too, it still makes me feel panicky.

this is currently making me cry.

Can't read it for bedtime story as I start blubbering

I read it to my husband (extract only!) at our wedding and now I cannot read it to DD (sniff sob blart)

"I couldn't read the Mog book where she dies (Mog's farewell). I had to get 6 year old dd to finish it for me lol while I had to go and find the tissues. We had had all Mogs stories for so long. Since they were babies really. And then Mog got old and a bit tired and went for a lie down ....."

Mog DIES???? What???!!!!??? No, No, NO! Surely not! I refuse to accept it.

oh my gosh, anyone read 'love you forever' by Robert Munsch? i was flicking thru books in the school library at work for our topic on 'ourselves'... saw this and had a cheeky read. had to splash my face with water to hide the tears !!!
really gorgeous about the love a mother has.. would reccommend it but note there is an american and a uk version. get the uk one.

Christ, I shouldn't have had that glass of wine. Now reading the excerpt again and weeping like a baby. Only my baby wouldn't weep. She'd just say 'Why? Why? Why? Why?...'