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It was Horrid Henry books that got my son into reading! I loved to listen to the stories too which helps!

My little girl has really got into reading with the Mr Men and Little Miss series of books. They just the right length for reading to herself at night after we’ve said goodnight and I am pleased because they are really well written with a good range of vocabulary. So we are all happy! :-)

My son loves the Mr Men books to be read to him. Some words are quite complicated for him to be able to read himself, although he tries!

My Ds loved the books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler when he was younger,
The books that he’s read over and over again though are The Bad Guys series by Aaron Blabley and it’s inspired him to free read other similar books without me having to nag him to do so.
Seeing him love reading as much as I do makes me feel like I’ve won a little parenting victory

My son loves anything with flaps, pop up bits etc. But also Oi Frog and Oi Dog have been big hits.

my daughter still wasn't into reading at age 15, so I bought her the books I borrowed from my mum when I was young. The ones that started my love of reading were the Flowers In The Attic series by Virginia Andrews.

Books have always played a huge part in our lives. Kids have always had so many. Probably for my daughter it was a book about "Dickie Donkey lost his Ee -Orr" ( something along those lines). She loved it and the book certainly looked like it was well loved. Have actually kept this book as a reminder as she grows!

Julia Donaldson, and of course Roald Dahl

It was the Biff and chip reader series that got my son into reading and he hasn't looked back.

My kids got into reading by any books that contained stories and pictures of cats and dogs. They love animal stories.

My middle dc hated reading. She also took a while to grasp reading. She was still not completely adept at it aged six whereas a lot of children in her class could read simple words at reception already.

One year when she was six she got World book day tokens from school. I took both dc’s to the bookshop and for some reason dd2 was in a bad mood and refused to engage stating she wasn’t interested. So in desperation I grabbed a book called ‘the clever kitten’ by Holly Webb as dd2 loves cats.

I left the book in dd2’s room and a couple of days later found her reading it. A week after that she told me in conversation that the book was a part of a series and she wanted to read the rest of the books! I was so surprised and so so happy, I did buy her the series and she hasn’t looked back.

After reading the Holly Webb books, for a while DD2 used to write her own animal stories, she’s a voracious reader now and falls in love with books and talks incessantly about her latest book discoveries.

the Roald Dahl books really got my children into reading

Diary of a Wimpy Kid books have really appealed and encouraged my daughter to read, she has a degree of dyslexia so the fun story line, graphics among the text and short paragraphs like a hand-written diary format have made it easier for her to follow the sentences.

I started reading to them when they were little, fairy tales, Mr men books and made up stories about what they were into at that given time ie football/princess's etc they loved them. As they got older and went to school there was so many books that really got them interested more.

The tiger who came to tea or mog. Judith Kerr is a fantastic writer and illustrator. My kids love her books.

Horrid henry, Then Harry potter. Now the Alex Rider books are popular.

Jake Atlas and the Tomb of the Emerald Snake by Rob Lloyd Jones. My son read the whole book in 2 days! He did not watch tv or play with his toys until he finished reading it! Then, it inspired him to write his own adventure story! I was very impressed!

the kids read all kinds of books from having stories read to them up to reading Harry Potter, there is a great age difference from 8 months til 16 years, we have lots of different books, we even go to the library

The Dinosaur that pooped the .............. series, PLANET, CHRISTMAS,
THE BED .....................and so on.............
Both children love the silly, rudeness with wonderful illustrations.
Written by Tom Fletcher

The Magic Pudding written & illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It's a very funny Australian book published nearly a century ago according to Wikipedia - I had the Puffin version as a child & read and reread it. My children loved it too.

biff
harry potter
mr men
the postcard book
peter rabbit
hungry caterpillar
five minutes peace
postman pat
kids illustrated bible

As huge dinosaur fans, it was any text book containing these prehistoric beasts (i.e. 'I Like Dinosaurs' from Heinemann, the 'Jurassic Park / Jurassic World' storybooks, etc.).

Now, they're getting into football, so these 'Football School' books would be something to look forward to.

My son got into reading when he found a book about zombies at his school. He is autistic but became really excited when reading out passages to his family and maling us go squirm.

DS always loved books with a lot of drawings and fun in it. Tom Gates and the Nate books were the ones which completely drew him in at first.

my daughter loves David Walliams books, she is just reading Bad Dad, i cant wait for her to finish so i can read it too it looks hilarious x