Do books for little children ever make you cry?

[PrettyCandles]

I'm a soft moo - Once There Were Giants sets me off every time.

When The Teddy Bears Came
Cant you Sleep Little Bear
Once There Were Giants

All by Martin Waddell

the heart in the bottle by oliver Jeffers

tiredfeet I did the same this week with Wild Things

Peepo every time.

What a bizarre title - shouldn't it be - 'which books for children haven't made you cry?'

BeerTricks I love The Elephant and the Bad Baby (so does dd).

What is it that makes you cry? Is it the part when the elephant and the ice cream man, and the pork butcher, and the baker, and the snack bar man, and the grocer, and the lady from the sweet shop and the barrow boy are all pointing angrily at the Bad Baby, while he sits there all huddled looking sad and sorry...

If so, me, too. :)

And every time we read it, dh says "That elephant has some cheek giving out to the baby when he's the one..."

I've never even read "Once there were giants" but someone made a blog post about it once which made me cry. Ordering for DS' birthday now. Probably a bad idea!

I got a lump in my throat reading When the World is Ready For Bed when we got it from the library. Don't know why. As a child I used to cry inconsolably at The Giraffe, The Pelly and Me at the end where they say something like "We have to go now, but we'll always be here waiting in the pages of this book."

And The Velveteen Rabbit, and The Rabbits Wedding, and while I'm on the subject of rabbits there's Watership Down... surely you're not human if you don't cry buckets at Watership Down?

Little Bear's Grandad

www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Bears-Grandad-Nigel-Gray/dp/1854306375/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316987871&sr=1-1

Once the were Giants gets me every time too.

I read ZOG aloud to my DGodson last week, in front of his mum (who was in my flat at med. school) Neither of us had read it before, nor saw the ending coming.

Cried with laughter for the last 2 pages. The boys didn't know what was going on!

Ah, Peepo. Bought on the recommendation of someone here. Every time I get to, "a mother with a baby, just like him," I have to wipe away a tear.

I think it's to do with the innocent joy my own ds gets when he sees 'another' baby in the mirror. He's not yet old enough to realise it's him, the sweet, sweet boy.

Appuskido, the patchwork cat. My favourite book ever. My dad used to read it too me, Ds has my copy now, sniff!

Love you forever, given to us by bil.5 years later, still cant read it without crying.

"There's Going to be a Baby" - Helen Oxenbury
Had me balling my eyss out in the library! I blame the pg hormones.

I thought No Matter What was our own private family book.... I can't believe anyone else ever found it.

Can't even read the blurb for Goodbye Mog without starting to weep, so could never actually read it.

DH has been known to hover in the doorway, and offer to read the end at story time, if he thinks I'm not going to be able to finish, without embarrassing the DCs with my blubbing.

I'll love you forever

Goodbye Mog

No matter what.

God yes....Bye Bye Baby by Janet and Allan Ahlberg anyone?

A baby who has no Mummy and Daddy and lives alone in a house....putting himself to bed every night!

He goes off to look for a Mummy....and....and...sob....its too much!

The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse

and, of course....

Dogger!

And, actually, the last chapter of "The House at Pooh Corner" - the Enchanted Place where Christopher Robin is going off to school...arrrrgh!

All of the above, especially Dogger, except Elephant + Bad Baby .

And Wibbly Pig's Silly Big Bear which I read in the library and then hid behind a bookcase so my DCs didn't ask to borrow it.

Owl babies.

Love competitive Dogger reading btw. I think competitive No Matter What reading should be an Olympic sport, I can just hear the commentary now: "and the big Ukranian has been so strong throughout this event, can she make it to the final page....'does love go on?....' AND SHE'S GONE! and here are the medics with the Kleenex"

mustdash, our library has lots of copies of No Matter What, strategically positioned around the building so that your hapless child will eventually brandish it at you demanding you read it out loud. The librarians do it for sport.

Dilys, dd loved Wibbly Pig's Silly Big Bear. Haven't read it for years but could probably recite it. It's lovely. When all his bubbles have been blown and blown away, when he is gone; we will miss him more than anyone. Aaaaah.

I must look up this Once There Were Giants book. Sounds dangerous.

The Little Match Girl!! Oh dear I'm inconsolable.

Lots of people have mentioned Love you Forever, can't even read the first lines anymore without a big lump in my throat.

DD was given a couple of books about lambs that lost their mummy with big reunion scenes with lines like 'Mummy sheep was calling for her little lamb. He would be lonely and cold without her. In the distance she heard his little tiny bleat. She started to run....'

They all went to the charity shop

Badger's Parting Gifts, Granpa and Peepo. The Peepo thing is that it must have been so hard for the parents to keep the kids oblivious to WW2 raging outside so their memories are of such ordinary things, like the soap in the cup. and Matrolania - dp would have no truck with charity shops or passing on of the library of dd aged 2 ish, we still have them all in the attic. Dp is a sentimental fool. I am steely and unmoved.