To think the worst answer you can get to "Which story would you like?" is..

[catgirl1976]

"If I Ran The Zoo"

It's sooooo long and it's such a tongue twister.

DS is 2.5 and I often get nice selections like Owl Babies or Oh No George.

But I got unlucky tonight and got 4670 pages of Dr. Zeuss' finest.

I like the story well enough, it's just a bloody epic to read :)

[Anniegetyourgun]

From 1.5 to 5 years old mine only needed 3 books (although of course they had many more, mostly slightly wrecked around the edges by DS3):

• Dear Zoo
  

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  

• When We Were Very Young/Now We Are Six (cheating a bit as it's a compendium)
  

After 6 you get them to read to you instead

[EmpressOfBedlam]

YY book disney gets on my tits. I sometimes rant at dd about the princess being able to sort it fucking out themselves!

[BramwellBrown]

The collection of disney princess stories MIL bought her and the Barbie books (also a present from MIL) the pathetic weak little girly shit makes me angry.

Thankfully DD has recently moved on to Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, which is far more interesting.

[EmpressOfBedlam]

Ooh sorry, ranting.

[Anniegetyourgun]

Fink my post should have been on the good books thread, sorry. It's late.

[EmpressOfBedlam]

OMG Classic Xpost bramwell!!!!

[MrsWinnibago]

Oh my God I forgot "You Do!" by Nick Sharrat.

"Don't pick your nose." "You do."

"Don't eat all the nice ones." "You do"

FUCK YOU!

And at the end the sickly tickling part....I hate acting it out!

[MrsWinnibago]

Bram any books of that type disappear in this house. I do have traditional fairy tales but I won't have that shite. We have "Anti-Princess books"

They're SO going to grow up to be Pageant Queens aren't they!

[LilQueenie]

the 1000 sticker book. Seriously I have to name every sticker in there. and that is bedtime reading?

[TheCunkOfPhilomena]

I pretend to be reading the cBeebies bedtime story when DS wants The Snail and The Whale as I like the added pressure not to slip up.

Worst one at the moment is The Princess and The Pea because it's full of crap about how a potential wife should look and behave and how lucky they would be to be fecking chosen. I do tend to skip quite a bit of that one.

[Andrewofgg]

I knew that I could annoy my DM by asking for Winnie the Pooh, so of course I did when I thought she deserved it.

With DF it was different. He was blind so he did not read, he recited from memory, and the repertoire was limited to items he liked too. This was before Seuss and one of the many reasons I regret that he died young is that he would have learnt Green Eggs and Ham and recited it to my DS, slight Central European accent and all!

[LittleBearPad]

I love snail and the whale. Get a bit chokes up when the snail says 'I feel so small'

Mog and the baby is a bit of a horror at the moment as it's requested nightly and the narrated at full volume by dd. Not relaxing!

[tartiflette]

You Choose

[MaureenMLove]

Aw, I miss reading bed time stories! (Although I'm right with you on Thomas and Mr Men!)

Are Jez Alborough books still in fashion? Mine and DDs favourites were It's the Bear and Cuddly Dudley! If they're not, then I really urge you to!

[jaundicedoutlook]

Any of Princess Evie's wretched stinking flea bitten Ponies. Indescribably awful an would willingly murder the person who bought them for DD, who requests them daily.

Dr Seuss any day. Or Moomins.

[EugenesAxe]

I agree with FrancesH - The Bravest Ever Bear is a right arse to read. It's slightly better when your child is older and understands sarcasm or maybe irony.

Another Ahllberg actually for me - The Jolly Postman makes me sigh inwardly. It's all the sodding books within books, even though it is a cute layout and I like the £1 note. The Jolly Christmas Postman, DS makes me read out every square of the through the woods board game.

I quite like Curious George though, as I have a good North American accent repertoire. I can't fathom anyone not liking Narnia, but heigh-ho.

Pmsl at Meg and Mogul!!

[BrieAndChilli]

Green eggs and ham, pages of Sam I am would you could you etc etc drives me round the bend

Mr men books, I try and paraphrase now but bloody ds1 with his photographic memory knows every time I skip a bit and tells me off

Thomas the tank engine if only for the fact that 3 year old ds2 always wants the bloody one that's gone missing and you end up going though all 50 of th until he finds one he wants

Spongebob ice cream dreams because dd wated it every night for ages and I hate it, it has gone missing which may or may not have been something to do with DH!

[lettertoherms]

Has no one yet mentioned the "That's Not My _" books?!

So fucking boring and there's no fucking plot! There's no reason for the last truck to be his truck! It's just the last one in the book!

[MeanwhileHighAboveTheField]

That because he stops looking when he finds his truck

[HappyAgainOneDay]

I haven't read If I Ran the Zoo but, if it's so long, why can't you serialise it - one chapter (or two) per night?

[Purpleflamingos]

Anything Disney. They come as a present from someone with a cd and by feb the dc is broken or scratched and I have to read pages and pages.

[Micksy]

My two kids get a book pick each. I have outlawed the ever popular You Choose / Just Imagine combo. I herd them through those books like a stampede through a museum.

[PunkrockerGirl]

Topsy and Tim go to the doctor. My dc are adults now , but I still shudder at the thought of it.
Are the Topsy and Tim books still popular now and if so, are they still the most annoying family that ever lived?