What are your favourite books for sending your children to sleep? Share on this thread to win Peppa Pig goodies [THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED]

[EmilyMumsnet]

To celebrate the publication of George & the Noisy Baby, we're working with Ladybird Books to find out which books you read to your children to help send them to sleep.

Share your favourites on this thread and one lucky participant will receive a whole bundle of Peppa Pig storybooks and other exciting goodies. There are also ten copies of George & the Noisy Baby for the runners up.

To enter our competition, just write in and let us know which books you read your DCs when bedtime has gone awry. We want to hear about classic storybooks and new finds – does ‘Goodnight Moon’ work for your baby, or is ‘Go The F* To Sleep’ more their thing? Share your stories on this thread before 10am on Monday 30 March. George & The Noisy Baby is published on 5 March 2015.

This competition is now closed!
And the winner is...
Anusia86

Runners up:
julker, winewolfhowls, melanieclaire2002, poorbutrich, lupus, clippityclop, KittieCat, Ineedtimeoff, hazelangell, mumtoason87

Special mention to SoupDragon for their lovely post about HairyMcLairy

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for contributing!

The snail and the whale sent my ds1 to sleep every night for 2 years...beautiful poetry-i would keep reading even when he was asleep.

My baby loves Dear Zoo and The Baby Catalogue.

We can't get enough of Laghu the crow and little Yashmak has lost his smile!

Then it's 2 songs and lights out

DD 1 loves The Cat in the Hat and other Dr Zeus stories, quite hard though to read after a long day at work.. Certainly keep my mind whirring.

DD2 adores the Hairy Maclairy stories and Monkey Puzzle.

We have a couple of stories though that we always save for jut before bed Little Ones bedtime and The Paper Dolls both really gentle and calming.

We love The Tale of the Greedy Fish. It's a lovely book with really detailed pics where you always see something new. Better still it's got a 'charitable' story behind it being published. It's DS's and my favourite! www.thegreedyfish.com

My 2 yo loves Where's Spot. She is so active it's one of the only books she sits still too. Doesn't make her sleep but an important part of her wind down.

My 3 yo loves the Blue Kangaroo series. If it's been a busy day she has been known to fall asleep being read to. I love those days! ??

Any Julia Donaldson books - especially a squash and a squeeze and monkey puzzle, owl babies and my daughters personalised lost my name book.

I look forward to when she is older and I can read the enchanted forest books by Enid Blyton

For dd(3) we have to read super worm, gruffalo and any of the underpants books and at the moment for ds(6) the children's encyclopaedia on space ??

ur favourite bedtimes stories are Jon Klassen's books "I Want My Hat Back" and "This is Not My Hat". We read it in silly voices and mimic the expressions on the animals faces and they makes us really chuckle

We leave DS with the Gruffalo and he points to all the animals in the wood before falling asleep. After a year in his cot it's looking battered but it still works.

My nearly 2yr old DS likes One Ted falls out of bed or Snuggle up sleepy ones. He has only recently started to sit through proper stories, until then it was more Thats not my... Books and other lift the flap type books.

Any Debi Gliori book with Mr Bear et al in .
Lovely bedtime books with gorgeous illustrations and beautifully written.

Who's in the loo by Jeanne Willis and Ten little pirates by Mike Brownlow.

Sleepy Kittens - the one from Despicable Me. We bought it at universal studios when DD was a tiny lentil sized thing in my tummy.
And the Big Night Night book. DD loves tucking the baby in bed at the end of the book.

Dr Seuss. Sleep Book

Marks place

My DS loves a Bedtime Story. Atm I'm reading Him The Thomas The Tank Engine Collection, before that was The Winnie The Pooh Collection. He likes a nice long story to help Him go off to sleep before Bed. When we have finished Thomas The Tank Engine, we'll start some of my old Enid Blyton Collections that I have kept from my Childhood

Peepo and Each,Peach Pear Plum are both favourites in this house.

My 4yr old is currently a big fan of Winnie the Witch and Ella Bella Ballerina.
I am waiting to start reading some Enid Blyton to her as I have such lovely memories of it from being a child :-)

I think it's more the routine of reading a nice story and having a cuddle before bed that helps dd sleep, rather than the actual book, if that makes sense. She loves all sorts including Julia Donaldson books, lots of princess stories and we're just about to start Charlie and the Chocolate factory.

i read my son roald dahl boooks the same ones my mum used to read to me!

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, Kiss Good Night by Amy Hest, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star by Jeny Pinkney, Bear Snores on by Karma Wilson, Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo Willems, The Goodnight Train by June Sobel, How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen, Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker, Going to Bed Book by Boynton, Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow, Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann, Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney, Time for Bed by Mem Fox ....... grabbed them off the bookshelf! All great books and all loved by my children!

My nephew loves The Gruffalo.

My little girl is 2.5 years and she loves nothing better then a good bedtime story we my 2 boys are in primary school they always bring books back so we read them together

I try to choose relaxing and soothing books for bedtime to get my 13-month-old daughter in the right mood for sleeping.

One of our favourites is a book called A Book Of Sleep about how different animals sleep. The illustrations are so beautiful and the words are lovely. I love reading it and my daughter really enjoys the pictures.

My son loves the Jolly postman but really anything which which rhymes!