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Which children's books give you a lump in your throat?

132 replies

Orinoco · 03/05/2006 20:42

I've just been reading "Can't you sleep, Little Bear" to dd's and I nearly cried! Silly sentimental moment about giving your children the moon!

What innocuous(sp!) children's books have had you blubbing?

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mancmum · 03/05/2006 21:45

I just love the book my Dad -- it kills me every time I read it as it desribes my DH so perfectly in his kids eyes... and the bit at the end

-- I love my Dad
- And he loves me and he always will...

usually too choked up to read this bit...

mancmum · 03/05/2006 21:46

I just love the book my Dad -- it kills me every time I read it as it desribes my DH so perfectly in his kids eyes... and the bit at the end

-- I love my Dad
- And he loves me and he always will...

usually too choked up to read this bit...

PiccadillyCircus · 03/05/2006 21:55

rickman I know the book you mean, but I can't remember what it's called either.

It's something like "I'll love you for always" or "As long as I love you". This will annoy me too :)

chapsmum · 03/05/2006 21:57

lauras star, we bought this for my firend ds after she died, it alway makes me bubble

frogs · 03/05/2006 22:05

\link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0749706244/qid=1146689814/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/026-2984799-3819627\Bye Bye Baby} by the Ahlbergs is very sweet and a bit mournful at the beginning (but has a happy ending).

It's a story about a little baby who lives in a house by himself (cue cute Ahlbergy pictures of baby hanging out his laundry, making his bedtime cocoa etc). "He even changed his own nappy. It was very sad." Then one evening as he puts himself to bed he thinks "I am too young to be doing this. I need a mummy." And off he goes to find one.

Fab. Dd2 (2.5) is completely obsessed with it, being (I guess) just old enough to find the idea of not having a mummy intriguing, but loving the happy ending.

rickman · 03/05/2006 22:05

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cod · 03/05/2006 22:06

mancmum love the dressing gown
my mum is hte same

cece · 03/05/2006 22:08

Badger's Parting Gifts

cece · 03/05/2006 22:08

I love you this much?

collision · 03/05/2006 22:11

I got a lovely book for ds out of the library and it was about a grandpa and his grandson. We were reading it together and it was so sweet until i realised that grandpa was going to die!! It was awful. DS kept looking at me and I couldnt keep on reading it as it would have upset him too much as his Grandpa isnt about to die!

I had to change the ending and ds was a bit confused as it obviously didnt make sense.

It was only later that I read the back of the book and it said it was an introduction to death for younger readers!! I felt such a fool! Blush

Crackle · 03/05/2006 22:27

I was in WHSmith a few years ago with the boys (when they were toddlers) when I found the Mog dies book. I was hugely excited to see a new Mog book and knelt down with it to the side of their buggy to show them the pictures of their favourite cat.

I very quickly realised that Mog had died and started bawling like a loony. This started the boys off. A nice lady took the book away and said that I wasn't the first.

Blush
cod · 03/05/2006 22:28

lol

marthamoo · 03/05/2006 22:33

Goodbye Mog (have avoided it like the plague after crying in Waterstone's when I picked it up to have a look at it and last time we went to the ILs, Grandma had bought it for ds2 and I had to read it to him...)

And Owl Babies.

Crackle · 03/05/2006 22:41

Cod. I can't believe that you are laughing at my Mog bawling.[/shirty]

If I recall correctly, it started with me excitedly opening the book and getting the children's interest. I soon started making odd, gulping noises and then progressed to full body shuddering.Blush I may have had a long string of snot.

Bloody kids.

:)

suejonez · 03/05/2006 22:41

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orphan bird adopted a mummy bear - can't get through it without sobbing (can you tell I'm in the process of adopting!!)

Dannie · 03/05/2006 22:41

It's so sad at the end of the Winnie the Pooh books when Christopher Robin can't play with Pooh any more because he's going to boarding school. I had no idea until I read them to DS1 Sad.

suejonez · 03/05/2006 22:42

Does Little Women count as a childrens book? The bit where Beth dies, sniff, gulp...

cataloguequeen · 03/05/2006 22:42

No Matter What...'love,like starlight never dies' blub

and Charlotte's Web.

glasgowgal · 03/05/2006 22:47

Guess how much I love you

rummum · 03/05/2006 22:51

RICKMAN.... I love that book too...

I got this from his website...

Love You Forever started as a song.

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
as long as I'm living
my baby you'll be."
"I made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. The song was my song to my dead babies. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn't even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn't sing".

Knowing why he wrote the song I sob even more at the end....

Flamesparrow · 03/05/2006 22:51

Dogger :(

I refuse to read the Mog dying one - I just saw the cover and got choked up Blush

Tommy · 03/05/2006 22:53

The Railway Children when the Dad comes home and Bobbie says "My Daddy, oh my Daddy"... can't read it without crying

HunKeRMunKeR · 03/05/2006 22:54

Dogger and Charlotte's Web - had that read to me in the library when I was 4 and choked back tears then!

Flamesparrow · 03/05/2006 22:54

Now crying over that Rummum :(

Not really a book, but DD loves me singing puff the magic dragon, and I always get very choked up at the end :(

Freddiecat · 03/05/2006 22:54

Annie Rose is my Little Sister by Shirley Hughes

My two are at about the same ages as Alfie and Annie Rose and the books are just lovely.

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