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i read my son roald dahl boooks the same ones my mum used to read to me!

I think it's more the routine of reading a nice story and having a cuddle before bed that helps dd sleep, rather than the actual book, if that makes sense. She loves all sorts including Julia Donaldson books, lots of princess stories and we're just about to start Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

Peepo and Each,Peach Pear Plum are both favourites in this house.

My 4yr old is currently a big fan of Winnie the Witch and Ella Bella Ballerina.
I am waiting to start reading some Enid Blyton to her as I have such lovely memories of it from being a child :-)

My DS loves a Bedtime Story. Atm I'm reading Him The Thomas The Tank Engine Collection, before that was The Winnie The Pooh Collection. He likes a nice long story to help Him go off to sleep before Bed. When we have finished Thomas The Tank Engine, we'll start some of my old Enid Blyton Collections that I have kept from my Childhood

Marks place

Dr Seuss. Sleep Book

Sleepy Kittens - the one from Despicable Me. We bought it at universal studios when DD was a tiny lentil sized thing in my tummy.
And the Big Night Night book. DD loves tucking the baby in bed at the end of the book.

Who's in the loo by Jeanne Willis and Ten little pirates by Mike Brownlow.

Any Debi Gliori book with Mr Bear et al in .
Lovely bedtime books with gorgeous illustrations and beautifully written.

My nearly 2yr old DS likes One Ted falls out of bed or Snuggle up sleepy ones. He has only recently started to sit through proper stories, until then it was more Thats not my... Books and other lift the flap type books.

We leave DS with the Gruffalo and he points to all the animals in the wood before falling asleep. After a year in his cot it's looking battered but it still works.

ur favourite bedtimes stories are Jon Klassen's books "I Want My Hat Back" and "This is Not My Hat". We read it in silly voices and mimic the expressions on the animals faces and they makes us really chuckle

For dd(3) we have to read super worm, gruffalo and any of the underpants books and at the moment for ds(6) the children's encyclopaedia on space ??

Any Julia Donaldson books - especially a squash and a squeeze and monkey puzzle, owl babies and my daughters personalised lost my name book.

I look forward to when she is older and I can read the enchanted forest books by Enid Blyton

My 2 yo loves Where's Spot. She is so active it's one of the only books she sits still too. Doesn't make her sleep but an important part of her wind down.

My 3 yo loves the Blue Kangaroo series. If it's been a busy day she has been known to fall asleep being read to. I love those days! ??

We love The Tale of the Greedy Fish. It's a lovely book with really detailed pics where you always see something new. Better still it's got a 'charitable' story behind it being published. It's DS's and my favourite! www.thegreedyfish.com

DD 1 loves The Cat in the Hat and other Dr Zeus stories, quite hard though to read after a long day at work.. Certainly keep my mind whirring.

DD2 adores the Hairy Maclairy stories and Monkey Puzzle.

We have a couple of stories though that we always save for jut before bed Little Ones bedtime and The Paper Dolls both really gentle and calming.

We can't get enough of Laghu the crow and little Yashmak has lost his smile!

Then it's 2 songs and lights out

My baby loves Dear Zoo and The Baby Catalogue.

The snail and the whale sent my ds1 to sleep every night for 2 years...beautiful poetry-i would keep reading even when he was asleep.

DD(4 years) - at the moment it's the Chip, Buff and Kipper books. Also traditional tales like 3 Billy goats gruff, little red riding hood and the like. Also the Mr Men and Little Misses.
DS(18 months) - likes touchy-feely books like the 'That's not my...' series and lift-the-flaps books like Where's Spot. But tonight we read Say Hello to the Baby Animals - a book I've not read since my DD was younger. And immediately I could recite the whole thing off by heart because it was so familiar.

Dogger - though it does make mummy cry. I've made a dogger for my little boy to take to nursery for world book day

My 21 month old son has consistently loved Fox's Socks for the last 8 months. He dips in and out of other books but this has really captured his imagination.

My DD, age 3, loves being read to before bed. She loves the Gruffalo, and Gruffalo's child, and Owl babies and we have a big book of traditional (very short!) stories and rhymes which she enjoys. But EVERY night whichever book we read has to be accompanied by either 'I love my daddy'or 'I Love My Mummy' DH and I know them both off by heart and we get a bit miffed if she favors one book over the other for a few days running

Dd (3) loves The Jolly Postman at the moment, and also Where is Kipper's Bear. The rhyming sends her off, and the copy we have used to be mine, which is nice.