DC's book that make you cry..

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Every time I read Judith Kerr's My Henry I have to have a little sob. It's the bit where they talk about their life together and how lovely it was. So poignant.

Dogger. It got me every bloody time. "Mummy, why have you stopped reading?"

Goodnight Mr Tom

Continuing on the Judith Kerr theme (and in continuation of a discussion I had today after the Sainsbury's ad aired) Goodbye Mog. Every time...

My children are only 8 & 5 but already there are books that we loved together when they were young that now give me a bit of a lump in the throat just because they remind me of how small they used to be.

Dear Greenpeace by Simon James here

A little girl has a whale in her pond and this book is her correspondence with Greenpeace about her whale, and their replies.

It is a lovely, gentle and thought provoking book, and I blub get a lump in my throat every time my dd asked for it

Love you forever.
Its creepy as hell but gets me every time. Dd LOVES it.

Paper Dolls, gets me every time... its the line 'and a kind grandma'. I'm welling up now!

I second 'live you forever' I tear up just thinking about it

Oh the places you'll go

The Green Ship by Quentin Blake, when the old lady sails the ship through till morning. Once tried reading it to a class - BAD idea!

The Silver Sword. I read it to my children, and really struggled to get through the last couple of chapters. It's the weepiest happy ending I know.

Barbara, I agree! I refuse to have it in the house. I read it quickly at the library, once. I hid from my DD (2.7 now, so not much more than 2 at the time) so she wouldn't see the book, then I had to try to get rid of the tears without her noticing.

She has a cuddly Mog which has gone everywhere with her since she was about 1. Mog can't die!

The butterfly lion
Any of the Narnia Chronicles

Paper dolls - the bit with the kind granny!

Slightly older, but when reading the Avonlea series, I couldn't hold it together when Matthew died.

"You were the first." It's a sort of ode to a PFB, and when I read it to mine, I weep.

"You were the first...to teach us how to be parents."

The forgotten Forest by Laurence Anholt. I picked it up in a charity shop and just thought it was a nice book. First time I read it and I very nearly burst into tears. It's a picture book about how all the trees have got cut down for development and there's only one little patch left that only the children play in. Developers come along and say they're going to chop it down and then there's sobbing in the trees and the builders all stop and start planting trees throughout the city. For some reason it just grabs me and I get a lump in my throat every time I read it.

Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge. Aussie book by Mem Fox about a small boy who collects memories to help an old lady recover hers

bawls forever

DH refuses to read it

Nothing by Mick Inkpen.

Me, too. DC has hidden My Henry to stop the angst!

I also find the bit in Monkey Puzzle, where she says, "but none of my babies look like me" strangely sad.

There is no way I'd get through Goodbye Mog. Nope. Not doing it.

Another one for "goodnight mister tom", also "the sheep-pig" by dick king smith... Poor wee piglet taken away from his mummy, the ewe being killed by savage dogs and the pig initially getting the blame, etc etc

Love you forever, ever since I found out it was written because of the authors stillborn babies.

I've hid the thing but the youngest likes me to say that bit to him often.

The Velveteen Rabbit.

Once there were giants

Mole and The baby Bird