kids books that make you blub?

[puppydavies]

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?

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's blubbed in the shop!

Pofaces - Two little boys reduces me to tears every time. It was on Radio 2 the other day and I had to turn it off.

Puff the Magic Dragon also makes me well up. When the little boy doesn't go to see him any more.......oh god, I can't even type it!

Guess how much I love you dispite it's obviousness (is that a word?)

Def the velveteen rabbit but not read it to my children.

Dogger

Book of Puff the Magic Dragon too - i started, got half way through and told DD to ask daddy to read the rest

dd has a book from the US about a mother bear and her cubs swimming across Lake Michigan to escape a forest fire, and the cubs drown and the mother bear sits on the shore and says "I'll wait for you forever, my children" . She is totally unmoved by it.

Goodbye Grandma Bunny (the Miffy one) made my mother cry. I must have a heart of stone as I couldn't stop giggling.

"Good Night Mr Tom" makes me howl. "Nothing" didn't used to make me cry but always brought a lump to my throat.

I can't even read the Amazon description of Goodbye Mog without crying.

Other than that, quite a few, but notably The Velveteen Rabbit, The Mousehole Cat (the fisherman is so heroic, sob) and a book called The Mud Maid that my parents bought DD from the Lost Gardens of Heligan. It makes me cry because I know the gardens are abandoned because all the gardeners have gone off to die in the First World War, of course DD hasn't got a clue why I can't get through the book without sobbing!

DD has Nothing too, Whizzz.

I cried the first few times I read it too.

Oh no. I loved mog books as a child. Didn't realise he had died

We had a book fom the library, Lion in the long grass. Couldn't read the last page as was so choked up. Still brings tears to my eyes as I think about it now.

Oh, I recently got No Matter What for dd1. She is ASD, and loves any rhyming books.

She has completely latched on to the "I'll always love you" phrase, and says it quite often throughout the day. As if that wasn't enough to make me sniffle (as I fondly imagine that despite her speech delay she knows what it means), if I then go on to complete it with "No matter what" she breaks out into the hugest grin... at which point I melt whatever havoc she is wreaking...

I refused to buy Goodbye Mog

'Little Baa' by Kim Lewis

A little lamb gets separated from his mother. I cant read further than about page 6 without blubbing pathetically.
She cant find her baby and all the other ewes are mean to her.

Dh tells me it gets even more emotional later when they are reunited across an empty field and first she walks and then she runs towards her baby when she spots him.

[breaks down at the thought]

Not pg or breastfeeding, just pathetic!

Another vote for Goodbye Mog. Always makes me howl. Also the bit in On the Banks of Plum Creek where Jack the faithful dog pegs it. And various bits in Miss Happiness and Miss Flower. And loads of Goodnight Mr Tom. And When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
I'm just hopelessly sentimental.

this book is so traumatic it should come with a warning on the cover!

starts promisingly as a touching tale of a little girl called Ruby who lives in the city writing letters to her cuddly grandad in the countryside. So far so very much your average bedtime story.

oh dear. I was reading this to my 3 year old (whose grandad lives in the country) when I became increasingly aware that grandad was going to die! And not only that but Ruby's dad had lost his job (cue pictures of dismal cityscape, homeless people - all a bit like our town..).
I was in bits as the ending approached (it's a happy but sad one - even worse!), just about holding it together to stutter through the final sentences before closing the book, saying 'night night darling!' and rushing off to collapse in a pool of tears in the bathroom.

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde - caught me completely by surprise while reading it to dds - it's all religious too, which I'm not, but i was unable to speak!

"By castille on Sat 24-May-08 20:42:31
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

"

oh more than SNIFF
I read this to dd1 the other night and I was literally sobbing my heart out
dd1 had to bring me a tissue

With you on "Two Little Boys", pofaced, when ds was a baby i didnt really know mant nursery rhymes/lullabys so i used to sing that to him when I was puttinh him to bes or if he was upset, cos my dad used to sing it to me.... gets me every time!

As for books:
The Lion Who Wanted To Love
The Lonely Wasp
The Christmas Miracle Of Jonathon Toomey
Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go To Sleep

I'm welling up.....

Another vote for the Velveteen Rabbit. Just bought a copy for DS, as my 30 year old copy was read to death..."but he never knew it was his old bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to become Real"
waaah!

The end of the House at Pooh Corner is making me well up just thinking about it

oh wow, how many spelling mistakes in one post?? That's what happens when I try to post with Eurovision on in the background
The singing is dire but I love Wogan - fully paid up TOG here!!

Love you Forever never fails to make me cry.
And the usual supects like Badger's Parting Gifts and Always and Forever of course...

Oh god, Badger's Parting Gifts.

Harpo, I bought that book a few years ago for my dad to give to my DD, without realising the end. Me and DH have both had a good cry to it - him when he was made redundant. Since my dad died, DD wants me to read it to her all the time, then gets cross when I end up crying.

I do think though, why don't they just go and live with the Grampa in the first place?

Oh God that Rolf Harris song makes me WAIL.I sobbed in borders books at some picture book where a little boy looks after a swan and then it gets killed by a fox.Beautiful illustrations but couldn't buy it as too upsetting! I have the diddakoi waiting on the shelf from my childhood-my girls are too tiny for it yet,I remember crying buckets when I read it.

at peppamum giving horrific 'grandad dies!' book to grandad to give to granddaughter.

yes, why don't they go and live with him? - poor old sod stuck on his own in that idyllic spot whilst family struggle on in bleak tower block.