Is it wrong that the only book to ever make me cry proper real tears . . .

[TheCountessOlenska]

is Black Beauty

However many times I read it! And also, at several different points in the story!! (Ginger off to the knackers yard, Black Beauty's ruined knees, when James says "why it's our old Black Beauty from Orchard Farm, I'd know that star on his forehead anywhere" etc etc)

I don't even like horses that much

Not the only one, but it does the same to me. And I guessed it before I saw the title.

Dogger by shirley hughes does it for me every time even though i must have read it to the dc hundreds of times!!!!!
oh and the ending of adolphus tips by michael morpurgo!

Have you read Warhorse?

Geranium I love Dogger, it was my favourite as a kid, and I read it to the DC as much as I can get away with, but I couldn't read it to DS1 when I was pregnant, as I choked up too much to finish

"Ride Beauty, ride for your mistress's life!"

Don't read Warhorse!

glad i'm not the only hormonal mum re dogger!!!

Goodbye Mog anyone?

Yes, black beauty is sad and beautiful too.

My DDs refuse to read it

DD2 would love it, but she point blank refuses.

Won't read mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh either

cheer up you hard hearted lot.

I once cried at 'The Archers' Podcast.

On a commuter train.

Oh.The.Shame.

I agree with 'Goodbye Mog', also 'Cool' by Michael Morpurgo.

Blimey - has no one read the Hunger Games???!!! Although I sort of realise I'm re-living my own teenage angst when I read it, but in a much more escapist kind of a way. Shamefully realy enjoyed those books on lots of levels... despite the fact that I know that lots of people will say that there was only one level on which it could be enjoyed... I suppose I'm a stifled 15 year old at heart...... [no blushing emoticon???!?]

and private peaceful if we are talking Morpurgo

I cried a lot reading Marley and Me too, and then was stupid enough to give the film a whirl

p.s. LOVE Michael Morpurgo, especially the Butterfly Lion!

I started reading Goodbye Dear Friend on a train and big splashy tears starting landing on page one so I had to put it away

(that was just imagining what it will be like when dog or horse die, argh, don't think about it)

Try "A Mummy for Owen" and "My Friend Harry". Sob.

Black Beauty reigns though. If I want to cry I just think about the last chapter. No need to dig it out and actually read.

Yikes, see? :(

Oh god Dogger gets me every time and 'Annie Rose is my little sister'. At the right time of the month even 'An evening at Alfie's' gets me. Damn Shirley Hughes.

The film that made me cry more than any other is 'My Dog Skip' though so I may have a problem. Also cried buckets at 'Marley and Me' (book not film)

The Velveteen Rabbit.

Oh Looooord. I sob at so many books.

All of the Casson family novels. Not sad tears, but "oh aren't humans lovely things" tears. The same in Anne of Green Gables when Anne breaks her ankle and is being carried home, and Marilla sees her and isn't sure if she's badly hurt.

The paragraph is: "At that moment Marilla had a revelation. In the sudden stab of fear that pierced her very heart she realized what Anne had come to mean to her. She would have admitted that she liked Anne--nay, that she was very fond of Anne. But now she knew as she hurried wildly down the slope that Anne was dearer to her than anything else on earth."

Also the James Herriot story with the abused dog, and they're going to put it down, and then the old lady volunteers to take it, and nurses it back to health, and it turns out to be a lovely beautiful golden retriever, and every time she sees the vet she says "Mr Herriot, haven't I made a difference to this dog" and she's so proud and the dog is so happy.

Oscar wildes fairy tales. (I know it sounds pretentious but believe me they make me do big gulpy sobs).

I gave the book to my dd a couple of years ago to read in the car (thinking it was just me who was the big wuss) and two stories in I had to pull over & comfort her - she was about 12 at the time.

Oh and in Cranford when captain brown dies

Dear Greenpeace - Simon James - sob!

timetosmile - which Archers storyline did that to you?

I want to add "The Mousehole Cat" to the list. I wobble when I read it. And even tear up if I think of it.