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?

Beverley Nichol's The Tree that Sat Down.

There's a heartbreaking bit where all the animals in the wood are fooled into buying things at a shop set up by the evil witch.

The nasty adults confuse poor Mrs Rabbit and trick her into buying "Rien" without realising it means nothing - she doesn't want to lose her pride in front of the other animals and spends her weeks housekeeping on it.

Late that night she opens it and realises that she has been tricked and she has spent everything on nothing and a big tear rolls down her nose.

I read a bit to DD's and had to stop as the page was blurred by my sobbing.

We also have "dinosaur starts school" which covers some of the things that a child might find scary or worrying about starting - but under the pretence that the child is comforting the dinosaur. I read this to my girls before they started pre-school and found it so emotional! Dinosaur's painting goes wrong at one point and then he doesn't like what's for lunch and he turns his head away and his big eyes fill with tears..

I had to hide it as it upset me so much! Am pregnant which makes it 100x worse

Dozens of children's books (and adult books) make me cry, but reading this thread is also mkaing me laugh, sympathetically.
I was once on an interview panel at work where the weirdest candidate showed up, she looked and spoke like Morticia Addams (I know this sounds very rude, sorry). I was nearly overcome by giggles and had to think about Beth dying in Good Wives to bring myself under control, it worked very well.

More votes for "Guess how much I love you" and "No matter what"
Had never heard of Goodbye Mog, but have just looked at the synopsis on Amazon and am now sitting here with tears running down my face.

Ruby flew too - when the little runt duckling comes back to see her parents with her own babies
("Will she ever come back? She will, in her own time" )

And Lilly & the whales when she hears the whales calling her name to the wind

Oh, and that one I go out of the library where the girl (boy?) is woken up in the night & taken to the beach by her/his mum in the moonlight, then comes home & falls asleep next to her on the sofa - such an amazing evocation of a special childhood memory. Anyone want to remind me of the name so I can buy it for myself the dcs?

Oh I have that book somewhere FP will look for it and tell you the name

Another one misting up with Mick Inkpen's Nothing.

Oh and Dogger too.

this one My kids adored Mog so when Mog passed away we were gutted.

I have to confess that I havent actually read it, the whole idea was too sad.

Peter Pan- it's heartbreaking when Peter comes back and Wendy is grown up. Always made me howl as a child, haven't read it to dd yet.