bedtime stories for 6-8 boy and girl

[Helmetbymidnight]

I've always read to both the kids together for 20 mins. Increasingly they are becoming very choosy about what I read - what one wants, the other hates. Ho hum. I could do one night, her choice, the next night his, but I miss reading to them when they are both gripped.

We've read the lighter Roald Dahl, loved Pippi and Karlson, loved Claude, Mary Poppins, Alice...Faraway Tree.

Any suggestions that might please both of them!! Thank you.

Roddy Doyle's "The Giggler Treatment"
Philip Ardagh's "Awful End"

I started Harry Potter when I was 7/8 and loved it, plus they kind of grow up with them if you pace it right :)

Try Storytime magazine too, which has a good range of bedtime stories in each issue. Each one is about 50 pages long, and our kids love it.
Plus Penguin has put out a new set of Kids Christmas Classics which are really beautiful.
And if all else fails there is always the Snowman!