Do books for little children ever make you cry?

[PrettyCandles]

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

Definitely Little White Bird (Peter Pan) the window is closed and he has to fly back to the gardens and live with the fairies :-( heartbreak every time.
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Has everyone forgotten the death of Aslan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? The little mice that gnaw his bonds away.....(dissolves).

Love you forever makes me blub whenever I look at it - I have not yet ever been able to read it to either of my boys!

The other one that gets me every time is Allan and Janet Ahlberg's 'Peepo' - 'he sees the landing mirror with it's rainbow rim and a mother with a baby just like him' and the illustration has Dad in an army uniform

I well up when I read Stickman. The bit where his Stick Lady Love tucks her children up in bed on Christmas Eve without their daddy. Then he comes back, and it's happy tears.

Also, the book Sad by Michael Rosen. About his son that died. I don't think I could manage that story right now.

No-one's mentioned it as far as I can see (though skipped some pages) so you def haven't read it as it is NOT POSSIBLE not to cry at 'Keep Love in your Heart Little One' - order it and weep!! About the love a daddy/mummy fox feels for little child fox. Gorgeous.

Railway children (at the end). I also can't watch this without crying.
Guess How Much I love you, although fortunately the DC aren't keen on that one.
Dogger, at the sister's sweet gesture
Charlotte's Web
Heidi, when she goes back to her grandfather
Pollyanna, at various places
Little women
Anne of Green Gables, when Matthew died
Patchwork cat
The Selfish Giant
Peter Pan upset me very much when I read it as a child, so much so that I don't know if it would make my cry now because I haven't read it since, ditto 'The Little Mermaid'

I am a bit of a wuss, it isn't unusual for things to make me cry!

When I was pregnant with DD2 I idly opened Goodbye Mog in WH Smiths, got as far as the first page and had to stumble gasping from the shop before I made a scene :(
We love Owl Babies but it's not made me cry.
I read one in the library a few months ago that was so sad- the Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit. God, it made me a shoulder shaking mess.

Nothing, not Love you Forever, or the last words of Winnie, or even Tom's Midnight Garden when he meets Hattie for the last time, will prepare you for the heartbreak that is Someday... Agonisingly perfect.

Places You Go Dr Suess

Has anybody mentioned The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit yet? Holy crap, that is the saddest book I have ever read. Even DH sniffled.

I've just read a book to dd and I was wholly unprepared for it. She's gone out for a play in the garden with dh while I recover emotionally. It's called Polar The Titanic Bear.

It's rather beautiful. It's about a wealthy family who traveled on the Titanic, the story told through the eyes of the boy's toy polar bear. It spans from when he was made a few years previously, through their travels around the world and finally onto the Titanic. The boy's mother wrote the story down in 1913 and illustrated it as a Christmas gift for him. It was found in the attic by a relative many, many years later. Completely true story with illustrations, photographs and additional information. And it's utterly lovely, if completely heartbreaking.

Frawli - I cried reasing the railway Children (at the end) to DS last night. I really struggled to carry on reading!!!

Just ordered Blueberry girl for a christening gift and once there were giants for a toddler whose about to be a big sister.

Peepo every time, it's just beautiful

One of my favourite authors as a child was E Nesbit. I've recently bought "5 Children on the Western Front" - about the same children who were in "5 Children and It" and "The Phoenix and the Carpet."

I have just started reading it. I only managed the first chapter and could feel myself welling up. I don't know if I'll make it through the whole book.

Do continue cariadlet. I enjoyed it immensely, despite crying just as you have!

Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson made me teary. And my 20 yr old daughter cried as she listened to me read Sugarlump and the Unicorn to my p1 class!

Badoomtish, I agree! That book is heartbreaking

The little match girl by Hans Christian Anderson is incredibly sad

YY to Paper dolls, esp the bit where her kind grandma exists in her memories, always makes me well up & gulp as I turn the page...

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, a chapter which is usually censored in children's editions of The Wind in the Willows. Grahame's son was, I think, autistic and you feel his pain, his heartbreak and his love.
YY to Winnie the Pooh, Charlotte's Web and The Amber Spyglass!

Just remembered Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and while we're at it (sobfest) The Little Prince...

funnyossity - I kept going and absolutely loved it. I thought that Kate Saunders captured E Nesbit's style perfectly. I cried towards the end of the story, and then again reading the pages that came after the actual story and finding out about Kate's own son.

Charlotte's Web

Hell yeah! No Velveteen Rabbit in our house.