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1hearts3134
jul 10, 2007, 11:39 pm

One book I almost always read for my class is Charlotte's Web and I always cry at the end (in front of the kids and everything!)

Anyone else?

2Granuaile Eerste Bericht
Bewerkt: jul 23, 2007, 2:04 pm

One of my favorite books that always brings me to tears is {Baby}by {{Patricia MacLachlan}}

3MerryMary
jul 23, 2007, 5:18 pm

The Wall by Eve Bunting. A very simple book that I read my my primary kids around Veteran's Day, so they can understand what the ceremonies are about. I have to practice ahead of time so my voice doesn't break.

4vivienbrenda
jul 23, 2007, 6:19 pm

"The Giving Tree". Unfortunately, I don't know the author's name. I took it from the library to read to my grandkids, but it made me so sad, I decided I couldn't bring myself to read it to them, so I returned it.

5LyraSilvertongue
jul 29, 2007, 1:57 pm

I cry with everything. Or I would cry if I didn't stop myself. I have teary eyes in most of the emotional scenes in books and film, including Charlotte's web.
i think I almost cried in Stargirl, when Leo turns Stargirl into Susan.

**HARRY POTTER 7 little spoiler!!!**

And I cried of enthusiasm, not sadness, during the final battle of Hogwarts, especially when Neville shouts "Dumbledore's Army!" and everyone cheers behind him...so emotional.

6danthelibraryman
Bewerkt: jul 30, 2007, 1:27 am

The giving tree is by the great Shel Silverstein.
I have made people cry during public readings of Love you forever by Robert Munsch.

7Trowa_Barton Eerste Bericht
aug 22, 2007, 9:04 am

"Goodnight Mister Tom" no matter how many times I read it I always end up crying.

8archerygirl
aug 23, 2007, 10:28 am

#7 I'm right there with you on Goodnight Mister Tom - it was the first book that ever made me cry.

9TeacherDad
aug 26, 2007, 1:26 am

I was mad at my boys for 2 days because they didn't warn me about Bridge to Terabithia -- I thought it was an adventure fantasy, not something that would make me cry (not that I'll ever admit it to them)

10sherrie87
okt 8, 2007, 3:28 pm

the miraculous journey of edward tulane had me sobbing last year, and grandfather's journey made me unable to continue speaking at a graduate level class a few years ago as we were discussing it. Oddly enough, my son's class read it this past Friday and (despite my warnings) he didn't find it sob-worthy at all. I pulled the old standby "you'll understand when you're older" that my Mom used to say to me as she sobbed to Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane". :)

11huppypie Eerste Bericht
okt 15, 2007, 2:07 am

The first story that made me cry was The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen. That poor little eager and forlorn tree. Makes me sad just thinking about it now!

12MyopicBookworm
okt 15, 2007, 8:43 am

I had to get out my hanky partway through The Mouse and his Child.

13huppypie
okt 16, 2007, 1:35 am

MyopicBookworm, seriously? I am just about to start reading that now. It sounds such a lovely book.

14JoClare
jan 12, 2008, 1:48 am

Gosh, I know I am coming to this question late, but my answer has to be The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson. That's a Ten Tissue Tale!

15yareader2
jan 12, 2008, 4:34 pm

mess 14: Almost all Hans Christian Anderson makes me weepy. If I had to pick another fairytale myself my first choices would be Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella. Those old tales were told as warnings for children but there is an unlying premise that the children do not control their own lives, leaving them to mean step parents or other cruel guardians to control.

16extrajoker
jan 12, 2008, 4:39 pm

#14

sherrie87 -- I second The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. I bawled my eyes out, at the sad AND happy parts!

17fannyprice
jan 12, 2008, 4:42 pm

Definitely The Giving Tree - I have a version in Hebrew and just looking at the pictures makes me cry. Also The Velveteen Rabbit - I have an attachment to my childhood stuffed animals that is probably unhealthy. Anything where animals have hardship, are sick, sad, or die.

18jugglingpaynes
jan 14, 2008, 8:01 pm

Hard to find, but The Blue Faience Hippopotamus by Joan Grant is a beautiful story set in ancient Egypt that always makes me teary eyed.

19eastofoz
jan 24, 2008, 4:58 pm

The hardest one for me to get through without choking up and bawling is Munsch's Love You Forever. The Little Match Girl is a tear jerker and there's another one for young adults about a girl who's motehr dies before Christmas. I can't remember the name. It has something about Angel in the title I think. Anyone know?

20eastofoz
jan 24, 2008, 5:17 pm

I think I just remembered the name of that Christmas book I mentioned in the previous post: The Best Christmas Pagent Ever --but I'm not sure. If anyone has read it can you let me know if that's what happens?

21clong
jan 24, 2008, 6:46 pm

The two that always make me cry have both already been mentioned: Love You Forever and Grandfather's Journey.

22yareader2
jan 24, 2008, 11:06 pm

I guess I am going to have to go out and get Love You Forever and The Little Match Girl latest editions to see what all the crying is about.

23MerryMary
jan 25, 2008, 9:39 am

eastofoz: I'm pretty sure the book you want ISN'T The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. But you might look at Gail Rock's book House Without a Christmas Tree. It's a short YA set in the Depression years of the 1930's and concerns a girl who has lost her mother, and is trying to convince her father that they should have a tree this year.

PS: I'm proud to claim Gail Rock as a Nebraska author!

24eastofoz
jan 25, 2008, 3:32 pm

MerryMay: House without a Christmas Tree rings a bell--thanks for the suggestion :)

25ggprof Eerste Bericht
Bewerkt: feb 7, 2008, 2:11 pm

I'd have to say Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls gets that familiar thickness in the throat.

26legxleg
Bewerkt: feb 7, 2008, 2:26 pm

Thanks to Summer of My German Soldier I feel a bit choked up every time I think of Egyptian cotton. Even re-reading it after a number of years, I *still* bawled like a baby.

27librarianlk
feb 17, 2008, 11:40 pm

#25 Yes! My sixth-grade teacher read that to our class after recess, fifteen minutes a day. If you think you can't get a room full of 6th-graders to cry, just read them Where the Red Fern Grows.

28Esta1923
feb 18, 2008, 4:37 pm

I'll echo "The Mouse & His Child," and "Goodnight, Mr. Tom."

29jhedlund
mrt 10, 2008, 11:59 pm

Bridge to Terabithia is not only one of my all-time favorite books, but the first book I read that dealt with loss. I remember I was so surprised. I cried for a long time. I recently re-read it and cried all over again. I didn't see the movie because I wanted the book to keep its sacred place in my heart.

30Stallworthy
Bewerkt: mrt 11, 2008, 7:16 am

"The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas" by John Boyne had me weeping at my desk.

31yareader2
mrt 11, 2008, 8:40 pm

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

32aviddiva
mrt 12, 2008, 12:26 am

I've read a lot of weepers, but Love you Forever is the one I can't get through without crying. I don't even bother to try reading it to my kids anymore. Old Yeller is another.

33neesie913
mrt 22, 2008, 12:48 am

"The Giving Tree" is THE one book that makes me cry. I'm an elementary school teacher and I can't read it to my students because I always cry when I read it. I do recommend it to my students though.

34chrisfitt
mrt 24, 2008, 2:58 pm

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo gets me every time. Wonderful writing that always finds its way direct to the reader's heart.
Also, a book that ALWAYS makes me cry for totally opposite reasons is The Cat who came in from the cold by Yorkshire author Deric Longden. If you read this in public be prepared to explain the frequent hysterical outbursts of uncontrollable mirth!

35suncloud9
mrt 31, 2008, 3:47 pm

3613caribou
apr 14, 2008, 5:42 pm

I always cry when I read The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo to my third grade students. My students cry as well. We feel that we have become part of Edward's journey... All at once, we are struck by the ending of the book, and the fact that the story has ended. My students always say that this book is their favorite part of third grade, and it is the book that made them excited about reading and writing. I had better stop, or I'll cry again. Ha!

37ToReadToNap
apr 16, 2008, 7:28 am

Love, love, love The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, also another of Kate DiCamillo's work, Because of Winn-Dixie. Both make me weep.

Harry Potter 7....I cried, and cried, until I couldn't cry anymore. Then I cried some more.

The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak is another one for having a really great cry.

Owl Babies by Martin Waddell is a simple, short, picture book that chokes me up, even after having read it about a million times!

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski is another picture book that makes me cry.

The Giving Tree and Love You Forever on the other hand,simply annoy me.

38valleymom
jun 24, 2008, 1:21 pm

I unashamedly choke up every time I read Love You Forever. I also choke up when my 2 y/o sings along with me at bedtime.

I wept when Dobby died in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I will most likely weep when I read it again.

39AMQS
jun 29, 2008, 2:42 am

Definitely The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, and A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.

40yareader2
jun 29, 2008, 9:29 pm

#39 Two great choices!

41jhedlund
jun 29, 2008, 11:07 pm

I just recently read Blackie, The Horse who Stood Still to my daughter. Wow! What an amazing book, albeit a tearjerker.

42rojita9
jun 29, 2008, 11:21 pm

I think y'all have got it covered: The Velveteen Rabbit (check!), Where the Red Fern Grows (double-check!), HP & the Deadly Hollows (check!), The Giving Tree (double check!), almost all of Hans Christian Anderson (check!) I need a tissue just thinking about these...

43Audacity
Bewerkt: jun 30, 2008, 10:41 am

My big weepy books are: the Anne of Green Gables series, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, and Ella Enchanted. I guess I'm a sucker for orphaned heroines!

44MerryMary
jul 1, 2008, 12:11 pm

Another one that brings me to tears - and makes me laugh out loud - is Mrs. Mike by Nancy and Benedict Freedman.

45yareader2
jul 1, 2008, 9:19 pm

Cinderella. I know it has a happy ending, but a tearful journey.

46peace4me
jul 3, 2008, 5:07 pm

Does Let's Get Lost count as "Children's Literature" I don't really think so but it made me cry
But........The Book Thief which is borderline not children's.
I don't know....

47Granuaile
jul 22, 2008, 12:53 pm

My favorite "tearjerker" is Baby by Patricia MacLachlan.
This book will touch your head and heart and is a great summer read...

48karenmarie
jul 22, 2008, 1:22 pm

I see my three favorite read-with-tears books are listed:

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

49MyopicBookworm
jul 30, 2008, 4:23 pm

I think I must just be an old softy, but I got a lump in my throat trying to read Guess how much I love you aloud.

50yareader2
aug 5, 2008, 12:44 am

#49

Reading something like that aloud always chokes me up too.

51raising_a_reader
sep 3, 2008, 5:26 am

52theretiredlibrarian
feb 5, 2009, 11:44 am

I cry every time I get to Beth's death in Little Women.
Also Number the Stars.

53danthelibraryman
feb 8, 2009, 2:21 am

There are two more I can think of that I haven't seen mentioned here. One is The Teddy Bear by David McPhail, and Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel.

54moehat
Bewerkt: feb 11, 2009, 9:05 pm

Iread The Fir Tree to my grandson a couple of weeks ago and that made me cry not him though..he's only 18 months old but my favourite childrens book is probably Tom's Midnight Garden..went to see it at the theatre last year and cried at the end; in fact spent the whole of the second half knowing I was going to cry at the end! my mum threw all of my books away so I have kept all of my own childrens books and am now reading tem to my grandson..I recently got a copy of Ghost Horse by Joseph E Chipperfield which was my favourite book when I was a child; I cried so much when I received it in the post..it was as if I'd only put it down that day and picked it up again..the books we read a children have such a special place in our hearts...

55preschoolteacher
feb 21, 2009, 5:07 am

Love You Forever, R Munsch- bought for my niece but it was really for my brother.

56momotimetoread
feb 25, 2009, 5:26 am

For me there are two books sure to make me cry even after reading them to classes of students for years and years. Sarah Plain and Tall and The colour of Home.

57librarianjojo
mrt 2, 2009, 4:57 pm

I'm a sucker for animals. I've read Koko's Kitten by Francine Patterson several times to 2nd graders. I don't blubber, but I still get choked up when Koko reacts to the news about All Ball.

58moehat
mrt 2, 2009, 6:55 pm

I tried to read the bit in Black Beauty where Ginger dies to my daughter years ago and in the end she took the book off me to read it herself because I couldn't get the words out.In fact, now I don't think that there's any part of the book that I can read without having to hold back the tears. I had a picture book as a child of Lad; a Dog and I can still see the pictures in my head because a lady in it was wearing two tone shes which I love to this day..I'd so love to see that book again; my mum threw it away. I understand that The Velveteen Rabbit has been made into a film..I have never heard of this book, so assume it must be an American classic that never became well known over here..I must try to get a copy of it.

59jillmwo
Bewerkt: mrt 2, 2009, 7:03 pm

I cried at the death of Demi's father in Little Men. John Brooke (Meg's husband) dies and Daisy and Demi are called to his bedside. To use a Victorian phrase, very affecting...

60phyllg
mei 31, 2009, 6:16 pm

I've read Flour Babies by Anne Fine 3 or 4 times and wept every time. A couple of the short stories in her Step By Wicked Step have also made me cry.

61HoneyBee4Me
jun 2, 2009, 8:33 pm

Yep, The Happy Prince made me cry in front of the kids..........

62Maidas9
jul 25, 2009, 7:17 pm

Oh, gosh! Mick Harte Was Here, by Barbara Park, was just SO tragic!!
I cry each and every time I read it!

63sprester
aug 1, 2009, 4:26 pm

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech made me cry like a baby.

For Being Good is a short story by Cynthia Rylant, it's in her book of Christmas short stories and it has me tearing up just thinking about it. I think it's because of my children growing up. The older I get, the more it makes me cry. Try to find this story and see if it has this effect on you.

Charlotte's Web will always make me cry as will The Velveteen Rabbit and Bridge to Terabithia

64MyopicBookworm
aug 1, 2009, 6:03 pm

I just had a slight hanky problem with one of the early chapters in The Ship that Flew. I think age and parenthood must be making my brain go mushy.

65LimoLady
aug 10, 2009, 7:20 am

I am a K-5 librarian. I always choke up and get tears in my eyes when I read these books: The Keeping Quilt by {Patricia Polacco}, Chicken Sunday by {Patricia Polacco}, The Faithful Elephants by{Yukio Tsuchiya}, and The Best Little Wingman by{Janet Allen}. Teachers in my school say they always have trouble reading the end of Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. Sometimes they have to hand it off to a child to finish reading it to the class.

66MerryMary
aug 10, 2009, 10:41 am

Chicken Sunday hits me like that, too.

My mother read all the Little House books to us at least three times. She never could read about the death of Jack the dog without tears.

67Maidas9
nov 9, 2009, 6:28 pm

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

68MarthaSteward64
nov 11, 2009, 1:34 pm

I would say The yearling... was a good read and touched me about the animal- human relationship can be so fragile.

69Maidas9
nov 12, 2009, 4:21 pm

#52-- I do too! It's so sad! :) Imagine that happening in real life for Louise May Alcott!

70yareader2
nov 13, 2009, 7:32 am

#69 what happened in real life?

I like to see the four women respresenting aspects of women's lives changing in the indutrial era. Was there really a sister lost to illness?

71KathiJ
nov 13, 2009, 8:50 am

A good book about the Alcott family is Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson. There was a lot of tragedy in the Alcott family, including the loss of a daugter.

72MarthaSteward64
nov 13, 2009, 3:32 pm

Heart renching when a parent has to bury a child. Yet the family was amazing.