kids books that make you blub?

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dd brought home a reading book from school about a whale who'd just given birth and was so exhausted she was drowning, while the protagonist family watched. i was rather about whether this was appropriate reading for a 5 year old but then burst into tears and couldn't carry on reading

please tell me i'm not alone in crying over kids books. i always get a terrible lump in my throat towards the end of the mousehole cat too. there's definitely something about reading aloud that makes it worse.

i am alone aren't i?

Despite being completely stonefaced when reading most 'How Much I Wuv You' 'You're My Fwend Fowever' children's books (ds always seems to pick them in the library. Hard cheddar.) I have to confess that No Matter What causes me to blub every single time.

I read a Mick Inkpen one called 'Nothing' about a little stuffed toy that got left behind in a house & it didn't know what it was. I cried. Have never been able t o read it to DS!

Owl Babies

The Tale of Peter Rabbit! Its harrowing reading, honestly, once Peter starts to cry and sob it sets me off, I've had to hide it in the bookcase as I can't bear to read it

Blub

I Promise I'll Find You by Heather Patricia Ward. I've never read such a heartbreaking children's book! About what a mummy would do to find her child if he ever went missing.

The one about the Nutbrown Hare

"I love you to the moon AND back" wail

The Railway Children

God loads!!!

< no excuse not BF-ing, not PG ,kids now 11 & 13 just plain bloody soft me!!>

snice -another vote for owl babies...

oh and i just remembered the bit in the baby who wouldn't go to bed where it says "someone who's ever so weary but can't go to bed until the baby does" sometimes caught me unawares w/dd1 who was the worlds worst sleeper for her first 2+ years.

am compiling long list of Books to Avoid at the Library, thankyou

The Diddakoi by Rumer Godden

Dr seuss Every time.

not much makes me cry but my kids LOVED that Mog series of books and when Mog died...

Charlottes Web, Goodbye Mog, Tatty Ratty

I cried in the shop when I read that Mog book, foxinsocks.

The Butterfly lion - Michael Morpurgo - when he has to chase the lion cub away - I just couldn't get the words out.

The velveteen rabbit

Owl Babies

I love you Blue Kangaroo

Dogger...

even worse, the Rolf Harris song Two Little Boys... and my youngest is 8!

that book "i like it when..."
it gives me a lump in my throat every time. tis lurvly...

Definatley Goodbye Mog, not read any other sad ones yet but we are still only at the cloth book/lift the flap stage so far, but Im sure I will cry at loads- I cried the other week when Danielle gave her baby to Bree- so I am very soft

The Miffy one where Grandma Bunny dies. sob
And I found myself getting overly emotional at the end of Winnie the Pooh when Christopher Robin is going off to school.

I made my big sister cry on her 30th birthday by giving her the last page of "Big Sister and Little Sister" in a frame. It's a picture book about two sisters that someone gave my sister when I was born and the last page says something like "Little Sister will always look after Big Sister because Big Sister taught her how"

In Desperate Housewives I forgot to say

Goodbye Mog. I read it standing in WHSmith and had tears running down my face. I was quite heavily pg at the time so I had a bit of an excuse but I doubt I could ever read it to the dcs.

The last story in The House at Pooh Corner, when Pooh and Christopher Robin walk to a Special Place in the woods and talk about CR going off to school and growing up and all that, and all the innocent childhoody stuff comes to an end

The Happy Prince