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.

Bloody dogger can't get through it without tearing up

The bit at the end of Pooh (can't remember full title of that one) where Christopher Robin is packed off to school and says goodbye always makes me well up.

The whole of The Mousehole Cat, it's a beautifully written and illustrated book though. I love reading it to children who are coming across it for the first time.

The end of Peter Pan when the children come home, I always saw that bit from the perspective of the parents, even as a little kid.

The Mirror of Erised chapters in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". If your greatest desire to be a family that loves you then that is incredibly sad. I was so glad when Harry was taken in by the Weasleys and Molly's love for him makes me cry. Who wouldn't want a mother like Molly?

Sorry, I meant "if your greatest desire is to be with a family that loves you"

The Big Big Sea. The bit where her mother says "Remember this time, it's the way life should be" Cannot read it without a wobble in my voice!

The bit where Jack - Laura's dog - dies in the Little House books. Fair enough, we have an elderly and much beloved dog. (I have never read Goodbye Mog as I'm not sure I'd cope.)

More randomly, pretty much the whole of Elsie Piddock Skips in her Sleep. Why that one gets me I don't know.

Goodbye Mog , tatty ratty

The bit in Pooh were it says that somewhere there will always be a boy and his bear playing. Gets me every time.

Also Goodbye Mog. Flicked through it in Waterstones when it first came out. Big mistake. One of the few times I've ever cried in public.

We have one called owl babies. At the end they say something like "we knew you'd come back" to their mum and if I'm in a particularly morbid mood I sob because I worry what my sons will do if I die and don't come back one day. Sob ....

No Matter What. It came in the bookbug bag and I merrily read it to DD until the last two pages when I wept and she got all puzzled.

can't think about Goodbye Mog.

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

We have Love You Forever and we're just discussing last night how creepy it is, but didn't know that ^ That it's about the author's stillborn babies :( that's put it in a new light!

OMG haning yes we had Owl Babies when I was young. Sad.

Also Bye Bye Baby by the Ahlbergs used to make me sooooo sad when I was little. I made my mum read it every night though. I was a melancholy little thing sometimes.

DS' book collection is currently sparse so I am mainly being reminded of books from when I was a child.

Agree about the mirror of erised episodes in Harry Potter, they used to get to me every time. Also, when mine were young, Badger's Parting Gifts - don't know if it's still around. Someone recommended it to me to help explain my dad's death to my DDs who were little at the time, and I could never get through it without sobbing uncontrollably a few tears.

Another vote for The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo.
Azzi In Between, Sarah Garland.

Julia Donaldson's Paper Dolls gets to me every time.

the Smartest Giant in Town. I always well up at the letter at the end. Giraffes Can't Dance, as well.

Another one who cannot get through Goodnight Mister Tom. There's 3 bits that get me every bloody time.

Accidental Time Traveller. The friendship between the girls towards the end...sob.

Dogger by Shirley Hughes.

Badgers parting gifts is still around and is great for helping children cope with death (suited to loss of a grandparent or older person really), makes me cry every time but my dd likes me to read it.

Goodnight mister tom and Anne's house of dreams and the later Anne book when Walter is killed all make me cry.

Not on the book but in Deathly Hallows, when Lily tells Harry 'you will always be loved' as James is being killed downstairs and just before she is killed, and knowing that Harry ended up at the Dursleys made me howl in the cinema.

Dogger for me too.

'And then Bella did a very kind thing...'

There is a book called the big ugly monster and the little stone rabbit - blub every time

Good night Mr Tom, every time.

Anything by Hans Christian Anderson
Some Dogs Do and Some Dogs Don't

Butterfly Lion (in fact anything by Michael Murphy go - Friends and Foes, War Horse)

The Boy in the Stripey Pyjamas

Oh, we have Puff the magic dragon in a book.
As we started I said to the DC "oh, it makes me cry this book" they asked why, I told them that when Jackie Paper grows up and doesn't play with Puff anymore it makes me a bit sad. All said very lightly and (obviously) without as much thought as I should have given it!
So, as I struggle through "Dragons live forever, but not so little boys" the two of them had big fat tears running down their faces and we finished in racking sobs.
Not my best parenting moment