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Tell us what book(s) got your children into reading - for a chance to win a football-themed goody bag worth £100

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SorchaMumsnet · 22/11/2017 15:57

Football School is an innovative series from two bestselling writers that teaches children about the world through football - and reading!

The books are packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and tonnes of humour. When do footballers poo? Can you play football on Mars? What is a magic sponge? You’ll find the answers to these questions and more on subjects from history and geography to biology and maths. Illustrated throughout with hilarious cartoons and filled with laugh-out-loud gags, this is the perfect book for any boy or girl who loves football.

The coaches at Football School, Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton, are journalists, broadcasters and award-winning science and sports writers. They believe that there’s nothing you can’t learn through the prism of football, and their knowledge, enthusiasm and engaging writing make them the perfect team to teach kids how to score with their heads!

To celebrate the second book in the series, we're giving away a fantastic football-themed prize bundle - including Football School Season 1 and 2 and personalised items including a football from We Print Balls, a tabletop football game from Auntie Mims, and football wall stickers from Bright Blue Pig.

As the series is a great way to get the more reluctant of readers interested in books, for your chance to win the prize bundle worth £100, just tell us - what book(s) got your kids into reading, and why?

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Tell us what book(s) got your children into reading - for a chance to win a football-themed goody bag worth £100
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SorchaMumsnet · 27/12/2017 17:31

Hi folks - thanks for all your posts on which books got your children into reading. Our winner for this discussion was mrsdeedow - congratulations! We've sent you an email :)

Happy New Year all Glitterball

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Pibplob · 27/12/2017 17:10

Who won?

molly57 · 20/12/2017 18:33

The "Famous Five" books

noynoyavery · 20/12/2017 16:38

David Wallams books are what started a passion for reading in 2 of mine, the youngest 6 is an emerging reader and loves paddington books at the moment. Glad I have a near library in my house!

blue25 · 20/12/2017 13:15

Diary of a Wimpy Kid hooked my little boy on reading

bogglebonce · 20/12/2017 10:25

David Walliams and Gangsta Granny such wonderful book - I wish his books had been around when I was a child.

countingdown · 20/12/2017 09:43

My son has always been a good reader but got to the point where his reading ability and his enjoyment level don't match up. As a result of this he stopped reading as much. I couldn't find anything that he was particularly interested in. In desperation I downloaded The 13 Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths onto his Kindle. He was hooked and binge read the series, then read them again and again. He waited patiently for the latest book to be published in August. These books really helped him rediscover his love of reading and helped me to find books of a similar genre for him.

tanyavt · 19/12/2017 22:32

I'm still looking for the perfect books to get my football mad boys into reading- here's hoping these will work!

wef1984 · 19/12/2017 21:58

Diary of a wimpy kid got my daughter reading

tubbyj · 19/12/2017 21:29

Captain Underpants were the first series of books that got my son reading for pleasure

cluckyhen · 19/12/2017 21:26

For my DS it was dinosaur books on the potty whilst I peed!

Dessallara · 19/12/2017 21:21

Kipper stories :)

Larnipoo · 19/12/2017 20:51

If my son sees the movie first then he wants to read the book eg Paddington/Fantastic Beasts/Harry Potter/Charlie and the chocolates factory/Matilda

snare · 19/12/2017 18:04

My daughter loves the wimpy kids :)

MillyVanilli222 · 19/12/2017 14:37

Captain Underpants is a favourite here!

jen1984j · 19/12/2017 13:40

Hes into Terry pratchet at the moment

Drogonssmile · 19/12/2017 12:03

My son has just started The Twits by Rold Dhal and he loves it.

wonkylegs · 19/12/2017 06:36

We started reading to the kids from when they were wee and I think this fostered a good interest in books
DS really got into Roald Dahl, then the How to train your dragon series of books.
He's always got his nose in a book which is fab and is currently aged 9 devouring Michael Morpurgo books. He loves anything football related and football books always seem to be sneaked in for some extra under the duvet reading.

Janina71 · 19/12/2017 06:23

When they were little the Funny Bones books were bedtime favourites but when they became independent readers the Wimpy Kid books became their favourites. Funny books that are easy to read, lots of small diary entries instead of big daunting chapters.

peanutmum111 · 19/12/2017 02:57

My son loves the 'underpants' series of books. They have Aliens, Pirates and Dinosaurs as characters, all based around 'colourful, patterned underpants, which start the giggles. The illustrations are superb in large format books. The series allow for planning the next book and looking forward to it.

Kandboys · 18/12/2017 12:45

My oldest got into Beast Quest books which helped his reading as they were interesting and exciting. You just have to find a book or set of books they are interested in and they will get into reading

angiehoggett · 18/12/2017 11:42

The Hungry Caterpillar and Spot the dog

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sadiewoohoo · 17/12/2017 01:50

The diary of a wimpy kid got my DS into reading as it was the first books that actually made him laugh out loud.

SuzCG · 15/12/2017 11:04

Both of mine have always loved reading and books (I secretly like to think it's because I always read to them as babies, but probably more they are just reading geeks like I was). The first 'series' my son got hooked on was "the House of Secrets' - he couldn't wait for the next books to come out after reading the first and has read them over and over and over again. He has then obviously loved the Harry Potter books. My daughter did read loads of Rainbow Magic books which did drive me slightly insane - but hey, they grow out of everything eventually!