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

The Goosebumps books

We read together every evening: I read a few chapters to my son, then he reads to me. The first proper books (rather than Kip & Biff boring stuff) that made him enjoy books were Horrid Henry Easy Reader series, followed by all The Wimpy Kid series.
We're reading Bad Dad now.

All the Julia Donaldson books got them into reading. We'd act out the chatacters while reading them.

From an early reading age at school my son was reluctant to pick a book up but enjoyed being read to. A teacher decided he might be more interested in some factual science books and that's how he learnt to read. At age 8 he was given the Harry Potter series and has never looked back . He has reread those books many times. His school reports often come back now with should pay more attention to what we are doing in class rather than reading his own books. I'm not worried about that just glad the HP books finally unlocked his passion for literature.

We've gone a bit retro, and my son is really enjoying the Puddle Lane books! They are great for sharing the text. X

Harry Potter! DS really dislikes reading and finds it hard work, but the sheer determination to find out what happens next in Harry Potter drives him on. Don't know what we'll do when he finishes them - start again maybe!

I grew up loving Charlotte's Web and Roald Dahl books then Goosebumps and it rubbed off on my cousin as i use to have to read them to her and even do the voices and so the love of them books continue and even now I have fond memories of reading them and i still love to read paper books

Wimpy Kids Series, Timmy Failure, Barry Loser are all my son's favourite books. At present he is into Simon Mayo, Rick Riodan etc. Enjoys reading immensely!

Our three are proper bookworms and have been reading since they were three. My DS laughed out loud at the Mr Gum books, which my DD also loves. They also love all Roald Dahl books and in a similar way, David Walliams, and Julia Donaldson is a firm favourite.

I was getting a bit worried as my 11 year old Son just didn't want to read. He used to when he was younger a lot, he loved Dirty Bertie but after that he just didn't want to know - it was just football football football. Until he got too year 6 and they have been reading the book "Once" - they have been using this book as part of the curriculum and he absolutely loves it. He talks to me constantly about the boy and what happens and has since started reading the other books which follow. I would never have thought this was his kind of thing but he is absolutely hooked.

I think the first book my daughter ever fell in love with was The Three Billy Goats Gruff, she knew it off by heart and would just sit there reciting it herself. She's always been a big reader and i was practising phonics with her the moment she started making any noise- mostly because i had grown up with a dyslexic brother who had spent years in speech therapy and had entered the teaching world myself to help other children who found reading difficult.

She was reading at one and there was no stopping her from then on. She read Matilda at 4 and absolutely fell in love with the titular character, by 5 she set herself a challenge to read 365 books in a year and finished in 10 months. She hasn't slowed down either, she just loves books and all kinds of books!

It's really weird because i always wanted to help children who struggled to read but reading clicked for her straight away. Most people think that it's hard if you are a reluctant reader- which it most certainly is but it's hard being a young competent reader when people don't know how to nurture and encourage your desire to read for pleasure all the time. School definitely struggled with how to approach and expand her reading which could have been deeply off putting but thankfully our local library was a genuine godsend because they recognised her passion and fed into it.

My daughter loved the How to train your dragon books and has read them over and over. My son has always love the fact books, How things work and stats on football. The Frankie's football books have been good as well. He is football mad so that helps him have an interest

Rainbow magic got my daughter reading age 5, she's now 8 and enjoys goth girl, bedtime stories for rebel girls and Harry Potter

All the Roald Dahl books especially James and the Giant Peach

DD1 loves to read any books by Tom Gates and David Williams and can stay hooked for longer time.
DD2 loves all princess,magical and fairies books especially if its read to her as she's still learning how to read 😊

So many books, but the book that made the biggest lasting impression on all of my little ones is 'No,David!' by David Shannon.
From the beautifully drawn pictures (their favourite being naughty David running down the road showing his bare bum of course!) to the fact that they had all done something that the mischievous David had done, the book really caught their attention, and I think I must have read this book every night to my four DC for about 6 consecutive years! lol x

My son went to bed one evening reading The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. I turned out the light after a bit, and thought he was asleep. He put his lamp back on after I went down, and carried on reading. Next thing, he came downstairs sobbing, saying "Aslan is dead!" I had to read the next two chapters to him, to let him know the happier ending! After that, he was completely hooked, and over the next few weeks, he read the whole series, and has been an avid reader ever since.

My son loved the books by Julia Donaldson as a toddler and then progressed on to Beast Quest books and those by Jeff Kinney and David Walliams.

Titchy Witchy - the pictures help with the start of longer sentences and they are fun!

Julia Donaldson books , we loved the rhymes and characters , then he loved Mr men and now at 7 has just discovered David Walliams books

David Walliams, Jeff Kinney, but what it all started off with was Janet & Allan Ahlberg with those cheeky skelton's who venture out in the night. Personally I was a Mr and Mrs fan.

The Tom gates series by Liz pichon are the ones that really inspired reading for pleasure for my ds.

Afraid it was all the usual suspects- Beano / Robot (gaming magazine) Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates, Big Nate, xxx Storey Treehouse series, Captain Underpants- particularly when I said it was the most banned book in American schools...
For my son, reading became a pleasure once it wasn’t difficult for him- about age 8. What got him reading voluntarily was fiction with lots of pictures, funny stories, familiar characters in series.

Jacqueline Wilson and David Walliams are the two who I have to thank

It was non-fiction that finally got my reluctant 7 year old into reading for pleasure. We discovered the Lonely Planet Kids range and he's fallen in love with their nature, geography and history subjects.