There's this one chapter which I can barely read out lot to my dc's because I'm trying so much. Do you have any of those?

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It's a book by Astrid Lindgren (I think it's called Emil in English) and this little boy through some superhuman efforts manages to save his parents' servant's life. I read it to my dd1 a few months ago and was sobbing all the way through it, tonight I read it to dd2 and did it again.

The Mousehole Cat, for some reason, and a book called The Mud Maid, which is about the Lost Gardens of Heligon. It's only because I know why the lost gardens got lost, nothing intrinsic in the book, so poor DD finds mummy's sudden inability to speak very confusing. Oh, and Charlotte's Web. The outraged cry of 'mummy, this is a SAD book' was met with 'yes gulp it is , sob'.

The bit at the start of By the Shores of Silver Lake where Laura's dog Jack dies . . . makes me sad just thinking about it.

I am such a wuss, this thread has made tears well up and I haven't even read half the books on it.

The Velveteen Rabbit always does it for me. Also Are You My Mother? and Owl Babies.

Oh, castille yes, the very end of Winnie the Pooh. Unbearably sad.

And the fact that DS can listen and not feel sad just proves that he is like Winnie the Pooh, not understanding what this all means and that makes me even worse.

I agree that it is embarrassing when reading to a class. I have had to break off and say-'I am sorry but I might cry in a minute!'

Am I the only person who reads without actually taking in any of the words? I find I can do all sorts of tihnking while reading to DS, so I find myself at the end of a chapter having sorted out my lists of things to so in my head and not even knowing what happened in the chapter I just read.

I certainly don;t get teary lol. Mind you, that might be because Mr Gum and Tintin are hardly tearjerkerrs

taffetta Guess How Much I love you is a horrible book, about the silly big rabbit trying to get one upmanship on the little rabbit all the time. Horrible.

overmydeadbody, I can do it with some books (ds's endless Fireman Sam stories spring to my mind), but now with others.

not with others

my typing is just horrible at the minute

I always get involved! I have my favourites that I can read over and over again.

Does anyone know the one about the bat who drops her baby and the baby is brought up by a bird family. She never fits in and always wonders why her "sibling" are so different.

I think it is called Luna or something.

snail and the whale

'she gazed and gazed, amazed by it all,
And she said to the whale, "I feel so small."'

Gets to me every time.

Found it. It is Stella Luna.

Such a lovely lovely book. I cry buckets though when I read it.

I bawl my eyes out at The Little Tin Soldier, where he gets thrown in the fire and the paper doll he is in love with gets blown into the fire by the wind, and the tin melts with her little jewelled hairclip and makes a heart

I have puff the magic dragon as a book. It makes me cry whether I read it or sing it.

My DP has a book I think by Oscar Wilde and theres a story about a 'selfish giant' which makes him properly cry - he read it to me before we had DD and broke down in tears!

Overmydeadbody - I agree with you about GHMILY. Yuck! And you're the only person I've ever come across who also thinks this way. I was begining tofeel like some sort of deviant whenever that book is mentioned.

My bedtime tear-jerker is Once There Were Giants. Love it

Wibbly Pig's Silly Big Bear is (I think) a metaphor for having a severely disabled, much loved sibling or schoolmate who dies - possibly I'm misreading it, but it's very very sad even so.

Fun Radio occasionally plays When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2, and I have to make an excuse and leave the room to blow my nose.

It's always bloody Bella doing her very kind thing that gets me. I know it's coming and I try not to choke but every bloody time!

I love the Emil books. That story where he saves Alfred does not make me cry. But we saw the film before reading the book, so we were prepared for what happens

Always and Forever - gets me every time .... it's completely unsentimental but just beautifully done - sheer genius

I sobbed all the way through reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Hardcover) by Kate DiCamillo with my eight yr old daughter. Anyone else read it? It is so sad.

I have tears rolling down my cheeks just from reading this thread. Had better not read any of the books in it any time soon!

basildonbond...yep, the picture of the old fox staggering into the wood to die....welling up now!!!

BUT also his hat hanging up later in the story ....WWAAAHHH!

OMG I can't read the Little Match Girl without being in absolute hysterics.
Have only attempted it twice, but that compilation of Fairy tales has been relegated to the back of the book cupboard just incase I catch sight of it..