After responding in the affirmative on 'Do you cry when reading books to your DC?' threads

[GrimmaTheNome]

...wouldn't you think I'd have had more sense than to start reading 'Little Women' to my DD?

She's 9, and still loves me to read to her, so nowadays I do classics from my own childhood. All has been well till now... Little Women was pretty much OK...but I hadn't anticipated that she'd immediately want me to go on to 'Good Wives'.

I've just been reading ahead and in floods over the chapter with Jo and Beth at the seaside where Jo realises Beth is dying.

How on earth am I going to get through that?

Don't know, but for heaven's sake don't read her Black Beauty.

...or Charlotte's Web

...or Watership Down.

The film of Black Beauty was bad enough.

We've got charlottes web on CD [for once a good freebie in the Times] read by the author, so I won't need to read that as I couldn't better his rendition, but don't think that would have been a problem - its not sentimentally written.

And she's decided for some reason that she wants to read Watership Down herself someday. Whew.