What’s your favourite (and least) Julia Donaldson?

[HouseOfSticks]

I absolutely love Stickman. DD is obsessed with it and loves wearing the costume. I also like paper dolls though I well up every time I read it.
I don’t like Tabby McTat. I just can’t get the rhyme right!

I HATE all of JD's books, with particular venom reserved for the Smartest Giant. None of them scan, half of them don't rhyme in my accent, and I don't like Axel Scheffler's drawings.

The song in Tabby McTat drives me bonkers - I can’t figure out a sensible tune to it.

I love The Paper Dolls - can sometimes get through it without crying, but it's 50/50. I find the troll and pirates one a bit annoying.

@Wheresthebiffer2 Stick Man annoys, me too. I get so bored of the endless 'I'm stick man, I'm stick man, I'm stick man that's me'. My daughter loves it though

I like monkey puzzle, really dislike the flying bath

I love Zog and room on a broom.

I find the Gruffalo and stickman a bit tedious to read but I love the story/films.

Less great I think are the unicorn one and the troll.

Charlie cooks favourite book is my favourite and smartest giant is least.

DS2 LOVED Tiddler, so I love it too he and DS1 also liked The Gruffalo, which I have never understood as a story. Surely it's a tale of how lying convincingly gets you good results?

Also: Stick Man. It's bloody horrific. They are sticks and live in a tree, which is surely the hollowed-out body of a giant from their perspective. They mark the insides of said giant with burnt pieces of wood (i.e. flesh). They have ornaments made of leaves - which are what? Hair?

Stick Man is WEIRD.

I haven’t read Postman Bear for about 4 years now and can still remember it verbatim.

A squash and a squeeze annoys me as it is just the retelling of an old fairytale repackaged.

I like the BBC Stickman adaptation. They are all on iPlayer at the moment.

I like the Gruffalo. I find myself rambling about Gruffaloes whenever we go anywhere wooded.

Best: Torn between Room on the Broom and The Gruffalo
Worst: Zogg

I feel like a part of my life as a parent is missing as we never had Paper Dolls, my eldest son was 7 at the time it was published and we moved abroad so I guess it just passed me by.

I love Room on the Broom and A Squash and a Squeeze.

Don’t mind Zog, What the Ladybird Heard, Gruffalo, Highway Rat.

Can’t be doing with Smartest Giant, it’s so boring. Smeds and Smoos and Ugly Five are so twee!!!

My favourites are Tyrannosaurus Drip and The Paper Dolls.

Worst....I hate Stick Man, and Tabby McTat. And I also HATE Axel Schleffer’s illustrations. So ugly.

I love Snail and the Whale. It makes me cry every time.
Less keen on the Smartest Giant.

Love: Stickman, Room on the Broom
Hate: The Smoos and the Smeds, it feels like a lecture and the topic has been done before, much better by Dr Zeuss

Sharing a Shell is my favourite.
Don't like Rhyming Rabbit at all. Really must remove it from the book shelf so I don't have to read it again.

Love Room on a Broom
Dislike Charlie Cooks Favourite Book

Squash and a squeeze. Or snail and the whale - I love those books.
I know stickman and gruffalo off by heart.

I've never read or heard of paper dolls. My least favourite is the smartest giant

Does anyone else have set accents they read the Julia Donaldson books in?

I always read Squash and a Squeeze in an Irish accent, Night Monkey Day Monkey in a Yorkshire accent, and Tabby McTat is a Scottish accent

Or at least my own attempts at

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

Squash and a Squeeze is a confused Scottish accent, along the lines of Mrs Doubtfire

sauvignonblancplz

I forgot - Room on the Broom is my best attempt at McGonnogal

Favourites are probably Room on the Broom and The Snail and the Whale. Tiddler has grown on me.

Can't get on with riding, riding, riding in The Highway Rat although I absolutely love the animated version of it - David Tennant's voice makes me HOWL WITH LAUGHTER! "Ohhh these nuts are hard as can be!" He sounds so pissed off, it's fantastic.

Also can't be doing with "I'm stick man, I'm stick man, I'm stick man!" Yes we know you've told us a thousand times ffs.

A Squash and a Squeeze is so twee, but then it's based on some old fable or something isn't it so can't really be helped.

Oh and the giraffe/scarf, scarf/laugh thing in Giant and Stick Man; yeah don't work for my accent and I refuse to change it so it messes it up:

Here comes a boy in a warm woolly scarf,
an arm for my snowman he says with a laff

My absolute favourite is Monkey Puzzle...

'No no no! Can't you see? None of these creatures look like me!'

'You never told me she looks like you.'

'Of course I didn't! I thought you knew.'

'I didn't know. I couldn't you see.. none of my babies look like me!'

Followed by my second favourite, Stick Man.

Stick man is lying asleep in the grate, can anyone wake him, before it's too late?

Skip a page..

'A stuck man, a stuck man!''

It's hilarious.

Worst one..

Charlie cook. Also didn't like The Smartest Giant but my children loved it. FFS.