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Roald Dahl - The Magic Finger, The Twits, The Enormous Crocodile.

Harry and His Bucketful of Dinosaurs

Mr Gum

The Magic Faraway Tree

Milly Molly Mandy

Charlie and Lola

Winnie the Witch, Tiddler

YY to Five Children and It. We love that too. Lovely. The language is rich and it's such a lovely story.

Abbeville

Horrid Henry. Lasted us from abeville to London after DH had to be left in hospital and Ds had to deal with all the French tolls.

The penguin who wanted to find out; just so stories, winnie the pooh

I second wind in the willows. Dd loves it.

I'm really excited about you getting How to Train your Drqgon I do so hope you like it! We still listen to it sometimes on long journeys and mine are 11 and 17.

Thanks all, have ordered five children and it, and how to train a dragon. should have gone to library but no time!

Another vote for Cressida Cowell's Dragon books. Have just done the Pirate one with my 2 and 4 year old DS's and they loved it (think most of it went way over DS2's head, but he was happy!).

My naughty little sister
Enid Blyton school stories.

Have fun!

Wind in the willows

Spy Dog
Just William

Go to your library and borrow some, then if you don't like them you have lost nothing.

Just remembered Astrosaurs (came as a book/cd set) and Milly Molly Mandy (ditto)

We do a lot of long train journeys so are big on audiobooks - at around that age dd liked:

Famous Five
Secret Seven
Naughtiest Girl in the School
various Narnia books
The Wizard of Oz

We've all loved Paddington (the Stephen Fry version). Also Winnie the Poo (there are a couple of dramatised versions which are good).

We found that the Owl who was afraid of the dark got very irritating after a while (for dh and me that is).

We've also had My Naughty Little Sister, Narnia, Tom Sawyer, Francesca Simon, Just So Stories, and a few CDs of myths and legends (King Arthur, Greek, Irish etc)

Cressida Cowell's dragon books. Honestly, best audio books ever. Read by David Tennant. Funny for everyone- including the grown ups.

Thank you - we've read and loved the Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark. The 4 year old is sort of happy to listen to stuff he doesn't fully understand yet - so if I pitch it lower end of 6 he should be ok. I've never read five children and it. Will check it out. Thought Alice might be a bit far out.

Paddington has been v popular here, also 5 children and It, Arthurian legends, the younger Terry Pratchetts, the Hobbit, the Owl who was afraid of the dark, and just recently (ds is 6.7) the first Harry Potter.

I wouldn't have thought Alice for a 4 year old tbh

I'm thinking something like Alice in Wonderland or something long and quite involved. Alice may be a bit complicated and old - can't remember. Not Roald Dahl as we find him a little dark.

Thank you!