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!

Good Night, Little Bear always does the trick with my little one, he absolutely loves it, especially as he has a bear he calls "little bear" - so they cuddle up together whilst I read it.

5yo loves all books at the moment his favourite is Hairy McClairy from Donaldson's Dairy!
3yo loves Winnie The Pooh!

You're All My Favourites is very popular in this house when reading to DD (3) and DS (18mths) together. I have just started reading The Enchanted Wood to DD though and she loves it. We talk about what has happened and we think might happen next at the end of each chapter so this is more fun for me too! I love You're All My Favourites as it was a present to DD from DS when he was born and they both 'compete' over who is favourite! Not sure they get the real point of the book

My little ones are huge fans of all Julia Donaldson books but they tend to get really excited by them which is usually a good thing. Just not at bedtime!

We love owl babies & anything by Enid Blyton

anything my julia donaldson!

Peace At Last in our household, obviously Daddy Bear requires a Mr T type voice lol

minwe r too old now sadly but they alays enjoyed guess how much i love you about the mummy and baby bunny

We have lots of favourites but at the moment we're enjoying the classic fairytales like Red Riding Hood and Snow White. We do have some modern favourites too though, such as Peace at Last, which is a lovely relaxing one for bedtime, as is Say Goodnight to the Sleepy Animals.

My 2 year old loves any story which has animals in it! The current favorites are: The tiger who came to tea and The Gruffalo

The teddy bears picnic as I can sing the last part until they drift off (or I do lol)

My youngest (2) loves Oh Boris! and Harry books he's an elephant with friends who are a teddy and a lamb who go on adventures. Although to be fair she loves anything.

My eldest (6) is exploring at the moment, we've just finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he loves horrible histories (really gruesome at bedtime with interesting conversation) but he still loves them. We've just picked up Horrid Henry from the library as well. I just hope he doesn't follow his behaviour!!

With both we like a bit of variety, the story settles them but doesn't send them to sleep as we like bringing the stories to life with accents and actions.

Thomas the Tank Engine and Peppe Pig

Ooooh! Sorry! Peppa Pig!!!

We like Elmer, Hugless Douglas, Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Owl Babies.

Dd is a Peppa obsessive so she frequently asks for Peppa but I refuse! If she's lucky she'll get My Mummy or My Granny, which are quick and I know off by heart!

At the moment its the Princess and the potty as we are potty training, he likes to be read it before bed, but he likes to do the Queens part not the princess's part. Before that it was any Thomas Tank book, he has a set and is really not fussy which one gets read as long as it has trains in.

'Arrgghh, Spider!' is a great favourite here, but a bit too shouty for bedtime! 'Mummy's little mouse' is a really lovely bedtime book.

12mo loves "My naughty little sister" book is 23 years old and anything at the moment with dinosaurs on the front cover

My 2yr old little girl loves Peppa Pig stories but they don't send her to sleep she just asks for 'more' 'more.' Another favourite is Red Shoes by Hans Christian Anderson. The ones which send her to sleep are the true fairytales that are longer so ones like The Princess & the Pea or Rumpelstiltskin, however that still only works if I read them incredibly slowly and at the barest whisper. Can you tell that she doesn't drop off that easily??

My little girl loves her frozen book and her Disney Princess story book

"The Gruffalo" was always a favourite when my youngest two were very little. And at Christmas we always read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

My daughter can't get enough of The Bedtime Bear.

DS2 has a very strict self imposed bedtime routine. The stories element of it is, strictly in this order:

Duck in the truck
No bed without ted
Brown bear, brown bear
Moo on the farm
I'm not cute

Only after having those books is he happy to go to sleep!

The gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child

Nursery rhyme books seem to be best for DD (3). Then she sings them to her toys in the cot whilst I go downstairs and mumsnet tidy up

Mine (9,7 & 3) love Dr Seuss The Sleep Book. We have that more often than any other at night time. Or The Lorax. We like books that are long enough to give them time to settle down but short enough to finish in one go so these work perfectly.