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What are your favourite books for sending your children to sleep? Share on this thread to win Peppa Pig goodies [THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED]

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EmilyMumsnet · 02/03/2015 12:05

To celebrate the publication of George & the Noisy Baby, we're working with Ladybird Books to find out which books you read to your children to help send them to sleep.

Share your favourites on this thread and one lucky participant will receive a whole bundle of Peppa Pig storybooks and other exciting goodies. There are also ten copies of George & the Noisy Baby for the runners up.

To enter our competition, just write in and let us know which books you read your DCs when bedtime has gone awry. We want to hear about classic storybooks and new finds – does ‘Goodnight Moon’ work for your baby, or is ‘Go The F* To Sleep’ more their thing? Share your stories on this thread before 10am on Monday 30 March. George & The Noisy Baby is published on 5 March 2015.

This competition is now closed!
And the winner is...
Anusia86

Runners up:
julker, winewolfhowls, melanieclaire2002, poorbutrich, lupus, clippityclop, KittieCat, Ineedtimeoff, hazelangell, mumtoason87

Special mention to SoupDragon for their lovely post about HairyMcLairy

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for contributing!

What are your favourite books for sending your children to sleep? Share on this thread to win Peppa Pig goodies [THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED]
OP posts:
BunnyBunnyMooseMoose · 06/03/2015 12:50

Goodnight Darth Vader. Every. Single. Night.

Catmadroo · 06/03/2015 10:38

my son loves all books and we always read books before bed, his favourites are any Thomas or Fireman Sam ones, though to be honest I don't think we have ever read a book he didn't like!

Poetnojo · 06/03/2015 10:32

The sleep book by Dr. Suess, it makes us both yawn a lot.

BellaWella86 · 05/03/2015 22:12

The Zog by Julia Donaldson at the moment.

lhlee62 · 05/03/2015 21:31

We love Ten Little Pirates and the Gruffalo's Child. My daughter can almost recite Ten Little Pirates.

Lindy2 · 05/03/2015 21:12

Room on a broom is a favourite here. The children can practically recite the whole book.

xalyssx · 05/03/2015 20:51

DS1 likes Peppa pig books and Thomas books. DS2 like that's not my. .. series.

mave · 05/03/2015 20:32

My first daughter is 9 and loved the gruffalo, but now reads her own books! My youngest daughter who's 3 loves room on the broom, we're going on a bear hunt amongst many others! It's so lovely to cuddle up with a story before bed x

catz747 · 05/03/2015 19:04

My kids have to read a book every day from school so we don't read to them as well. I wish they didn't have so many books from school as I feel it steals our enjoyment of reading to them and takes up time that we'd rather spend looking at books we like with them. So, they don't really have a set of books that they like.

SantasFavouriteHo · 05/03/2015 16:09

DS1 goes through phases of loving one story and wanting it over and over again before moving on - for this reason I can quote gruffalo, squash and a squeeze, house inside my mummy and right now Mrs armitage bike

Ds2 just loves the that's not my books and elmer

betard · 05/03/2015 16:02

Erm 'slide' should have said 'alfie' !

betard · 05/03/2015 16:01

We used to read Peepo to DD1 as her last story every night from 3 months to about 2.5. She still loves it at 3.9yrs. Now the 'sleepy story', read to dd1 and dd2 (22 months) while in bed with lights out, varies but other faves are Fox in the dark and any of the slide books. Shirley Hughes rules in this house.

kerryv · 05/03/2015 14:36

Any Julia Donaldson book!

pinklady123456 · 05/03/2015 14:05

My daughter loves Unpoppable (Tim Hopgood)- she loves to shout 'Pop' at the end, not sure its great for calming her down but she is usually so overexcited and worn out after reading it she goes straight to sleep!

weeblueberry · 05/03/2015 13:47

DD is currently enjoying The Lion in Paris. Every. Night. Envy

It would be fine if it weren't a massive A3 hardback book though...

rennie1811 · 05/03/2015 13:18

My daughters love:
peppa Pig Books ( they got a 10 set in a bag which they like to carry around)
Dr Seuss books
Mr Men books

My eldest likes chapter books being read to her so we read Roald Dahl books a chapter each night

maisiesnan · 05/03/2015 12:59

My Granddaughter has a different short story every night but her favourite is The Gruffalo but she must have different sounding voices for each character

backdatednamechange · 05/03/2015 12:24

We are currently reading the 'my naughty little sister' stories, my copy from when I was a little girl.

One story a night, it's lovely.

moggy56 · 05/03/2015 12:22

Chloe my granddaughter loves me to read at bedtime any of the peppa pig stories, she really loves them

eloisemummy · 05/03/2015 12:18

We read little fairy books and disney princess stories, we also have some peppa pig, max & ruby and we especially like the Boris hand puppet book :)

randdom · 05/03/2015 12:16

My son loves the Jolly postman but really anything which which rhymes!

Emrob86 · 05/03/2015 12:10

I try to choose relaxing and soothing books for bedtime to get my 13-month-old daughter in the right mood for sleeping.

One of our favourites is a book called A Book Of Sleep about how different animals sleep. The illustrations are so beautiful and the words are lovely. I love reading it and my daughter really enjoys the pictures.

rachheap2014 · 05/03/2015 11:54

My little girl is 2.5 years and she loves nothing better then a good bedtime story we my 2 boys are in primary school they always bring books back so we read them together

ehallett2581 · 05/03/2015 11:45

My nephew loves The Gruffalo.

TracyKNixon · 05/03/2015 11:45

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, Kiss Good Night by Amy Hest, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star by Jeny Pinkney, Bear Snores on by Karma Wilson, Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo Willems, The Goodnight Train by June Sobel, How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker, Going to Bed Book by Boynton, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow, Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann, Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney, Time for Bed by Mem Fox ....... grabbed them off the bookshelf! All great books and all loved by my children!