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!

We read little fairy books and disney princess stories, we also have some peppa pig, max & ruby and we especially like the Boris hand puppet book :)

Chloe my granddaughter loves me to read at bedtime any of the peppa pig stories, she really loves them

We are currently reading the 'my naughty little sister' stories, my copy from when I was a little girl.

One story a night, it's lovely.

My Granddaughter has a different short story every night but her favourite is The Gruffalo but she must have different sounding voices for each character

My daughters love:
peppa Pig Books ( they got a 10 set in a bag which they like to carry around)
Dr Seuss books
Mr Men books

My eldest likes chapter books being read to her so we read Roald Dahl books a chapter each night

DD is currently enjoying The Lion in Paris. Every. Night.

It would be fine if it weren't a massive A3 hardback book though...

My daughter loves Unpoppable (Tim Hopgood)- she loves to shout 'Pop' at the end, not sure its great for calming her down but she is usually so overexcited and worn out after reading it she goes straight to sleep!

Any Julia Donaldson book!

We used to read Peepo to DD1 as her last story every night from 3 months to about 2.5. She still loves it at 3.9yrs. Now the 'sleepy story', read to dd1 and dd2 (22 months) while in bed with lights out, varies but other faves are Fox in the dark and any of the slide books. Shirley Hughes rules in this house.

Erm 'slide' should have said 'alfie' !

DS1 goes through phases of loving one story and wanting it over and over again before moving on - for this reason I can quote gruffalo, squash and a squeeze, house inside my mummy and right now Mrs armitage bike

Ds2 just loves the that's not my books and elmer

My kids have to read a book every day from school so we don't read to them as well. I wish they didn't have so many books from school as I feel it steals our enjoyment of reading to them and takes up time that we'd rather spend looking at books we like with them. So, they don't really have a set of books that they like.

My first daughter is 9 and loved the gruffalo, but now reads her own books! My youngest daughter who's 3 loves room on the broom, we're going on a bear hunt amongst many others! It's so lovely to cuddle up with a story before bed x

DS1 likes Peppa pig books and Thomas books. DS2 like that's not my. .. series.

Room on a broom is a favourite here. The children can practically recite the whole book.

We love Ten Little Pirates and the Gruffalo's Child. My daughter can almost recite Ten Little Pirates.

The Zog by Julia Donaldson at the moment.

The sleep book by Dr. Suess, it makes us both yawn a lot.

my son loves all books and we always read books before bed, his favourites are any Thomas or Fireman Sam ones, though to be honest I don't think we have ever read a book he didn't like!

Goodnight Darth Vader. Every. Single. Night.

My son loved The Gruffalo, we had to read it EVERY night, another firm favourite was The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers.

Dd has Hairy Maclary and Slinky Malinki books for bedtime. Her favourite is 'Early Bird'. She also has the Gruffalo books.

Bloomin Rainbow Fairy books. A chapter a night. There are feckin hundreds of the books. All the same story. Over and over. I mean, how many fairy adventures is it possible for 2 girls to have? Do they never go to school?

My DD loves the other Peppa Pig books. She's also fond of Julia Donaldson - her current favourite is the Singing Mermaid.

My DDs favourite book many years ago was "The Noise in the Night".
We were reading it one evening, and I did my usual best suspense voice for the ominous bit where the boys hear a noise... and we heard an almighty crash in the bathroom!
It was the (humane!) mouse-catcher box slamming shut; we had set it up to catch our hamster that had escaped the week before and there she was!