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My little girl's favourite story at bedtime is mr pam pam or each peach pear plum. Also little rabbit foo foo! As a child I loved the Jodie smith and Eileen series.

Forgot my overall favourite. For me, this would have to be Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield.

Under 5s - The Noisy Way to Bed by Ian Whybrow. I read this so often to DS1 when he was a baby I was able to recite it to him without the book there, handy when nap time came around and we were out.
5-8 - Go to bed, Doodlehead, again by Ian Whybrow. A favourite of both DS's, and a handy reminder of why a proper bedtime is so important.
8+ All the Mr Gum books at the moment, hopefully this is as scary as bedtime reading will get!!!

We are going on a bear hunt or BFG!

Loads of good recommendations, however one I haven't seen mentioned (under 5 category) is "Ouch in my Pouch". Wonderful rhyming story about getting a new sibling. I love it!!

Under 5 HUG. Brilliant book!
5-8. The snail and the whale
8 plus I'll love you forever.

favourite of all time? I'll love you forever. Because I'm soppy.

Also Narnia series for 8-11 year olds.

Under 5 - The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. Also The smartest giant in town and anything else by her.

5-8 - Anything by Roald Dahl, especially Mathilda. Also the Famous Five series by Enid Blyton.

8-11 - The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer.

Favourite - The Gruffalo.

For very littlies, lullabies.

For the next stage up, Each Peach and Peace at Last.

For a bit older, Ferdinand the Bull, one of the few books to be banned, I think, by Congress but very gentle with wonderful illustrations, and No Matter What, which is a brilliant ending to any sort of day and has a gender unspecific parent. Leading in to The Adventures if the Little Wooden Horse and Moomintroll.

Then, the Laura Ingalls Wilders, which work for boys as well as girls, Kate Seredy's The Good Master and the Narnias.

Then the London Eye Mystery. Had everyone o. The edge of their beds.

From my childhood - though it was an old book even then - Mr Never Lost / Archibald Turnbull and classics Alice in Wonderland and Narnia and The Diddakoi/Rumer Godden
From my children's early years - Not now Bernard and Mr Frumble
Also we all loved Danny Champion of the World/Ruald Dahl

• favourite book for under 5s (babies to 4 year olds)

• favourite book for 5-8 year olds

• favourite book for 8-11 year olds

• overall favourite bedtime story of all time?

For under 5's - Guess how much I love you by Sam McBratney

Under 5 - Very Hungry Caterpillar, Green Eggs and Ham
5 - 8 - Faraway Tree, BFG
8 - 11 - Anne of Green Gables, Hobbit
Overall - Hobbit

Under 5 - The Tiger Who Came To Tea
5-8 - The Otter Who Wanted To Know
8-11 - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Overall...The Giving Tree makes me cry and cry - my parents never read it to me but my A Level English teacher did and it is a firm favourite now. My main memories are of bedtime stories in my parents' bed - dad in the middle, my sister on one side, me on the other and my mum switching sides brushing hair etc. Stories always had to be paused because my dad did silly voices and we got too overexcited! So it's maybe less about the book and more about the routine, I suppose.

• favourite book for under 5s (babies to 4 year olds)-

As chosen by my dc

Favourite book for under 5s - You Choose
Favourite book for 5-8 - The story of the little mole who knew it was none of his buisness
Favourite book for 8-11 - Diary of a wimpy kid
Overall favourite story of all time - The very hungry Caterpillar

• favourite book for under 5s (babies to 4 year olds)

• favourite book for 5-8 year olds

• favourite book for 8-11 year olds

• overall favourite bedtime story of all time?

The Smartest Giant in Town, Amazing Grace and The Lion who wanted to love.

oh to choose
under 5's my favorite book to read to my children was
Where's my cow? by Terry pratchett it was fun for all of us to read and listen to can still remember the hv face when dd who had speech delay turned to her and went buggrit many millenium hand and shrimp it is foul ole ron that's not my daddy my proudest parenting moment
5-8 A necklace full of raindrops, a book i read when i was younger full of short storys/fairy tale type things i loved it and recently found it again on amazon and gave it too my children to read dd wasn't keen as it wasn't Jacqueline wilson but ds liked it.
8-11 The Hobbit nuff said

Uder fives has to be Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. 5-8s Danny Champion of the World. Have just read it with my 7 year olds and they loved it. I can remember loving it as a child.

8-11s would have to be The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.

My favourite ever would be between Danny Champion of the World and Charlotte's Web. Can I have both?

under 5s
HUG by Jez alborough, The Dog by John Burningham
5-8
Frog and Toad are friends (any Frog & Toad book) by Arnold Lobel,
8-11
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (the whole set is amazing to read aloud)
Harry Potter set, War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
Overall - very fond of Fog and Toad
Reading to the children at bedtime was one of my favourite bits of being a parent. All 3 of my children adored it & I did too.

For me its either the magic of The Faraway Tree or The wishing Chair, I loved those as a child, dd loved them and I`m looking forward to reading them to ds.

dd has just reminded me that her absolute favourite was Oscar Wildes The Nightingale and the Rose, made her cry every time but she insisted on it every evening (happy memories, sob)

Jemima Puddle-Duck by enid blyton
as we capture memories with a glow,
Every book is ours to know
A smile is a treasure That I keep
even when my childs asleep.

DD's favourite books (she's 2) are The Snail and the Whale and Dear Zoo at the moment. We also enjoy The Gruffalo and One Mole Digging a Hole.

As a very young child, I adored, "How Foal forgot to be Frightened" (Helen Piers). As a pre-teen I loved Famous Five books, "The Magic Faraway Tree", "The Wishing Chair", "Mrs Pepperpot"

Also "The Secret Garden" and "A Little Princess" (Frances Hodgson Burnett) and "White Boots" (Noel Streatfeild).

As a child I loved books. I would spend hours curled up reading one after another. DD is already showing signs of being the same :)

So many to choose from.

Under 5s - Dear Zoo never failed to delight and was requested above many others. Now DS3 (aged 3) is moving on to Gruffalo as favourite - but only if I do the voices.
5-8 year olds - We are loving the Harry Potter books. It has been great reading them with DS1&2, although I have recently been reading a chapter of Prisoner of Azkaban to DS2, followed by a chapter of Goblet of Fire to DS3. Also loving David Walliams books - especially Billionaire Boy.
8-11 year olds - Not quite there yet but looking forward to The Hardy Boys with my boys. I loved Nancy Drew as well.
overall favourite bedtime story of all time - bedtime story? Not sure. My best recent reading experience with my boys has been sharing my love of The Hobbit with them. It was fantastic to read them my favourite book and see how much they enjoyed it. I also rediscovered lots of things I had forgotten in the story.