To think the BEST answer to "what would you like me to read tonight" is...

[LEMmingaround]

For me, its a close run thing between The lion the witch and the wardrobe - despite having to miss the whole bit where Aslan dies, and any of E nesbits stories involving the Psammead or the pheonix. For when DD was younger, it was The cat in the hat, all the slinky malinki and hairy maclary stories.

yep - blatant TAAT :)

Oh the places you'll go
Owl at home
Hairy maclary
Sharing a shell

the biggest kiss
by Joanna Walsh

Click, Clack, Moo

Oooh there is a thread about my thread

For me it's Owl Babies. Not because it's short, but because it's such a sweet story.

I actually am looking forward to reading DS more grown up books. Despite my whineing about the length of "If I ran the zoo" on the other thread, I am dying to read him The Hobbit.

Just, you know, not in one go :)

Anything by Shirley Hughes, but especially Dogger and the Nursery Collection, Alfie Gives a Hand, and Annie Rose is My Little Sister.

Green Eggs and Ham

Oh the Thinks You can Think

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

Room on the Broom

Large family

Whatever Next

The Cat in the Hat

Paddington

In the Night Kitchen and Where the Wild Things Are

I love bedtime stories. DH sometimes does a couple extra in addition but I always do three. I have missed it twice in 3 and a half years - once having a migraine and once having a baby! That's not to say I don't find it dull at times and just go through the motions, but I am so acutely aware of how much I will miss it when they are grown, it is the one area of parenting where I can always be relied on!

Goodnight Moon....goodnight room...goodnight cow jumping over the moon

sorry getting carried away. I loved that book more than my kids.

Catherine Cookson - Nancy Nuttal and the Mongrel. It has me in proper proper floods of tears every time though.

I've just started reading the Secret Seven books to DS and am wallowing in nostalgia with occasional fits of outrage (especially at the animals in the circus in the second book).