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

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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?

The Tom McCaughren books about the foxes Vicky and blacktip. "Run with the Wind","Run to Earth" and "Run swift, Run Free"

I remember reading them in primary school and bawling my eyes out. Read them to a friend's child a year or two ago and started blubbing again. Fabulous books tho!

A Little Princess - France Hodgeson-Burnett

Batters, I only have a son, but I think it made me think of myself as a child to be honest - we lived by the sea and my mum said her favourite memory of me is when we were on the beach, and I turned to her (age 3) and said "I love it down here with you"

:)

The Polar Express, I always choke up on the last page for some reason.

oh god, have just thought of another one-The Very Hungry Caterpillar. FFS! Becuase ds had it read to him before he was born. I bet I'm the only one though.