What are you currently reading you DS/DD at bedtime?

DS2 (almost 5) read me a story the other day - written by himself! It was good, too - there was a twist at the end!

Ds 4 - I Will Always Love You, (about a bear who breaks his mums favourite honey jar), Winnie The Witch, and alot of Bramble Bear books from Tesco.
Oh and Night Night Cuddly Bear is his all time favourite.

Current faves of DD age 3 are:

Hippos Go Berserk (board book, she's loved it since she was 1)
3 Billy Goats Gruff
Peace At Last
We're Going On A Bear Hunt

And I know what you mean about getting the sniffles - I have never dared to read Goodbye Mog - even thinking about it brings a lump to my throat! Even books that aren't sad can get me going - there's one called A Quilt For Baby (I think it's by Kim Lewis) and there's nothing sad in it - it's just about the baby's quilt made with love by the mother, with different patches representing different things in their lives. It's not just me - I have a friend who cried when she read it too - I blame the hormones, they're never the same after kids...

Just finished The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, now reading The Story of Tracy Beaker (8th time for her, first for me). She is 8.

ds is 19 months

'No Matter What', cant remember who its by but its all about loving children no matter what,makes me cry cos its so sweet.

' What if i turned into a bug?
would you still love me and give me a hug?

I 'd hold you close and tight
and tuck you in in bed at night

Does love break or bend can you stick it
does it mend?

meant to say giant peach.

We have just finished James and the magic peach and now started charlie and the chocolate factory, and she picked up 4 more books from the libary today.... she is 5 bless loves books.

Dd, 2yrs old, is being read Meg & Mog at the mo,
but every night for bout 2 weeks has been Five
Minutes Peace. Glad she decided she wanted a change, Now know M&Mog off by heart front to back, So does she!

We read gruffalo, gruffalos child, Hairy Mclairy, Room on the Broom etc normally but recently ds (19 months) choice has been Keith Floyd's India (recipe book)...umm not sure why, but he does have this thing for cookery books and programmes recently. Not complaining as it gives me the time to read it.

Don't mind rhyming books with a reasonable story line, but others with animals with names like fluffy etc I refuse to read, as well as really crap stories - luckily we don't have any in the house. Love the Gruffalo etc though and find I can read them solidly for 3 months without getting too bored.

Can anyone else on here recite the Gruffalo off the top of their head. We met him in Waterstones. No wonder all the kiddies were scared - he was huge and quite intimidating.

We're into Gruffalo and Gruffalo's Child atm.

Room on the Broom is great too. My all time favourites (never mind the children) are Slinky Malinky and Hairy McClary. I think I must like rhyming books come to think of it

oh and another if you have 6+ are derbyshire and jennings. they are truly fantastic and i thinkthey're from my dad's era rather than mine but he read them to me and my bro and we loved them.

wot you talking about 'plough through' they were my fave books as a kid apart from enid b of course...

We have just finished The magician's nephew. Now I understand more details of the film The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. It looks like I will have to plough through the other 6 books too....

My DD1 won't let me read to her - she is 13!!! My DS1 reads to me every night but whatever school book he is currently reading. My DD2 loves books, we also have a library full! I even got a library book stand from the school that they were selling just for the children's books. I kept lots of my books from when I was little (The Adventures of the Wishing Chair - date stamped 1972!, The Magic Faraway Tree - I just love Moonface) but my children never favoured the books I liked when I was a child.

My DD2 currently loves (but with my persuasion) Mog the Cat and The Cross with Us Rhinoceros (which is a lovely book that the illustrator - Paul Geragty - signed and drew a picture of my DD1 being chased by a rhinoceros for my DD at a school book fair. The Cross with Us Rhinocerous is about 4 children being chased by a cross rhinoceros but at the end he just wanted to be their friend. The words are a bit rhyming but not too much so. I also love The Selfish Crocodile and Little Tiger's Big Surprise (bought for my son when my DD2 was born).

I hate reading the Mr Men & Little Misses books. Had the whole set (bought for DD1 when she was about 2) but sold the whole lot at a boot sale for £5. I can't stand reading them - so boring.

2.2 ds is currently being read the Mr Men and Little Miss books at bedtime

DD (6) is currently alternating between Winnie the Pooh and Pippi Longstocking.

DD - Olga da Polga
DS#1 - Kingdom of Carbonel

Dad found a box of my old books in their attic a few months back and we're working our way through all my old favourites. Bliss!!!

Ds2 (3) has Ernie Dances to the Digeridoo every night (his choice) by Alison Lester - fabulous book.

Ds1 (5.5) is having the first Lemony Snicket book which I am finding dull but he's enjoying (but not as much as he likes Secret Seven).

for 3 and 1 year old older loves we're going on a bear hunt and other similar one which was mine about these odd looking bear type things that follow each otehr out of their beds and htrough the woods until they get scared??? also some princess book with alice and max, amelia bedelia, any mog, charlie and lola at the library, bagpuss, the church mouse

little one likes all older one's books and can often be found reading them upside down but particularly fond of sharing a shell (likes spotting the fish) and those counting ones with caterpillars and ladybirds made of plastic and hungry caterpillar and lazy ladybird, anything with popups or bits you can pull off!

for 4 and 6 year old, Sophie's Tom by Dick King Smith.

other recent favourites have been
Magic faraway tree
The little witch (an old german book)
The worst witch
Jennifer's diary (Anne Fine)
Back to front Benjy
Robomum

(all are short chapter books)

dd3, just 2. um, anything about teddy bears or farms.

DS 2.6
Pumpkin Soup
Tatty-Ratty
Oscar and Arabella (mammoths)
Zagazoo, Quentin Blake, makes me cry
Mister Magnolia - screams of hilarity
Thomas TTEngine - old book not new crappy dumbed-down ones
Charlie and Lola
sometimes Maisy

Almost at the end of The Witches by Roald Dahl. They are loving it, I had been worried it would be too scary - it has it's moments but nothing too bad! Kids are 6 and 4 BTW. Oh, and unborn baby seems to love it too judging by the wriggling

funnily enough franny I am warming to BP. though quite often nothing happens at all
e.g. Mrs Tiggywinkle does some washing snoooooooze