Children’s books that make you cry

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When DD (now 6) was younger I could never finish The Paper Dolls without shedding a tear.

Tonight, we’be just finished the Sophie series (Dick King-Smith). The last 2 or 3 chapters had me crying my eyes out. DD was “but Mummy, it’s only a book’”.

MrsGrindah go get some. Read them' to' the child you once were
(if that isnt hideously twee - read them anyway - they are fab!).x

Ahhh Bagger Brown had me gasping and sobbing so much that DH had to take over- kids were , and also the Sophie stories- DD is so kind though... “just be brave, mummy” 😭
Lassie Come Home is another tear jerker

YY to all of these, also Nothing by Mick Inkpen about a little soft toy cat that gets forgotten. The line about the baby biting its ear is so lovely :)

I also cry at the end of Some Dogs Do but that's happy tears!

I'm sure all of these have already been mentioned, but:

The Paper Dolls by Rebecca Cobb (the kind granny!)
The Railway Children
I Am David
No Matter What by Debi Gilori ('love, like starlight, never dies').
The end of the Winnie the Pooh series ('But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.')
The end of the Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

@nifflerbowtruckle A long way back in the thread by now, but your mystery book is Dawn of Fear by Susan Cooper.

Ooh, and the end of Tom's Midnight Garden!

One that makes me well up for reasons I don't fully understand is the page in Peepo by Allan Alhberg when the baby sees his family in the mirror ('A mother with a baby, just like him'). It's something about the sadness of the passage of time and the end of childhood, I think.

Thank you @bookworm14 I've just read the synopsis and that's it! I think I may re purchase that one.

Happy to help!

Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse by Ursula Moray-Williams made me cry as a kid

buckbeak Love You Forever I think it is called. Cannot remember the authour. I often think of it as The Creepy Stalker Mother's Handbook. That bit where she climbs through the window of her adult son's room!

Missed out on reading the Velveteen Rabbit as a child so read it as an adult in the library one day. Very embarassing but the tears were sliding down my cheeks and a lump in my throat.

The first chapter of Michael Bond's Olga Carries On, when Olga's babies have been taken to new homes and she is sitting in an empty hutch. Of course, anything about guinea pig babies reduces me to mush anyway.

Just remembered a book by Raymond Briggs called Grandpa. Very moving.

Sorry buckbeak just realised my comment on Love You Forever is probably shockingly rude. I mean no offence, I just found that book to be more WTF creepy than really moving.

I found DS1's copy of Goodnight Mister Tom when I was looking for something to read in the bath, and thought Oooh, haven't read this one. Hadn't seen the TV adaptation either so it was entirely new to me. Christ, but I sobbed my bloody heart out.

Another vote for Charlotte's web. My children remained completely dry eyes though monsters!
And yes also to Goodbye Mog.

Owl babies
Mr Stink

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My kids were also unmoved by Charlotte's web. I had to stop playing puff the magic Dragon though, as 5 yr old Dd sobbed his heart out for nights at a time.

Buckbeak, it's 'Love You Forever' by Robert Munsch. Makes me cry too.

'The Velveteen Rabbit'.
'Black Beauty'.
'A Little Princess'.

'We Found a Hat,' Jon Klassen

'Love That Dog' and
'Hate That Cat'.
Both by Sharon Creech.

'The Tiger Rising' and
'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane'.
Both by Kate diCamillo.

'Someday', Allison Meghee and Peter Reynolds.

'Let Me Hold You Longer', Karen Kingsbury.

'Jacob I Have Loved', Katherine Paterson.

'Where the Red Fern Grown', Wilson Rawls. I worried about letting my DCs read this because it is so sad.

Many Hans Christian Anderson stories.

I also weep at the poem by William Butler Yeats 'A Prayer for my Daughter'.

*'Where the Red Fern Grows', not Grown

Love You Forever .. I had to bury it in the back of my sons closet because it is tooo sad!! The real story behind the book is so sad as well :(

On the night you were born 😭😭

As a follow up to my previous post -> the real story behind Live You Forever 💔

www.google.ca/amp/s/m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_573ceb97e4b0aee7b8e8f76f/amp

*Oops I meant Love You Forever!

The Mousehole Cat - first read as adult and sobbed my eyes out.

Jenny by Paul Gallico- read as 10yo and was so devastated I cried for weeks on and off, pretty sure my dm was kicking herself for recommending to me!

Guess How Much I love You - my dcs used to ask for it just to see me cry.

Dogger, beautiful