Tell us what book(s) got your children into reading - for a chance to win a football-themed goody bag worth £100

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Football School is an innovative series from two bestselling writers that teaches children about the world through football - and reading!

The books are packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and tonnes of humour. When do footballers poo? Can you play football on Mars? What is a magic sponge? You’ll find the answers to these questions and more on subjects from history and geography to biology and maths. Illustrated throughout with hilarious cartoons and filled with laugh-out-loud gags, this is the perfect book for any boy or girl who loves football.

The coaches at Football School, Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton, are journalists, broadcasters and award-winning science and sports writers. They believe that there’s nothing you can’t learn through the prism of football, and their knowledge, enthusiasm and engaging writing make them the perfect team to teach kids how to score with their heads!

To celebrate the second book in the series, we're giving away a fantastic football-themed prize bundle - including Football School Season 1 and 2 and personalised items including a football from We Print Balls, a tabletop football game from Auntie Mims, and football wall stickers from Bright Blue Pig.

As the series is a great way to get the more reluctant of readers interested in books, for your chance to win the prize bundle worth £100, just tell us - what book(s) got your kids into reading, and why?

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This discussion is sponsored by Walker Books and will end on Wednesday 20 December

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Anything Peppa Pig or Minions - she just makes the stories up from the pictures in the books

The iggy and me series ignited my dd’s love of reading- it really entertained her and kept her attention from start to finish. She is now an avid reader and would love more iggy books.

The Dinosaur Cove series. We used to read them to DS and then one day he decided to read it himself. Once he'd read one, the fear of "proper books" went away, and now he's an avid reader.

They've always loved books really, but the ones that got the eldest in to reading alone were by Jacqueline Wilson. She much preferred being read to or reading to someone but she really got in to the Jacqueline Wilson books and wanted to keep going/read when we were busy and that got her over her need to be with someone when she was reading or having someone read to her. Now the only problem is catching her reading when she should be asleep I can't say anything, I was the same as a child

My DS 6 was a book refuser until we took him to the library and let him pick his own. He picked seven horrid Henry books and read them back to back. We now have a very keen reader who loves swapping his read books for new ones

My 8 son really struggles with reading. He trys so hard but it comes so slowly to him. He loved the monster farts series. They are really short books on Kindle.
He now enjoys comics & captain underpants series

My wonderful grandson who is now six years old, simply loves building the words up, reading the story to me, we have a story each night and very often the day also.....the gruffalo was the first book he took a great interest in and then the stick man...at the moment I am reading the christmasoraus to him and actually we are both enjoying it very much...we always discuss what we have read so as I can ensure that he has understood what we have read.....to relax and socialise he plays football for a team twice weekly....football crazy.....

My dd showed little interest until she started Jacqueline Wilson and David Walliams books.

Loads of good ideas on this thread. My ds loves the Star Wars reading books I got him and looks through them every night.

The Beast Quest books for all their faults had my DS devouring books.

My daughter was very much like me as a child and always enjoyed reading. I think it was The Chronicles of Narnia that really fired her love of reading as she could just escape into new and magical worlds, go on exciting adventures and learn a lot, all from the comfort of her bed (or a sun lounger in summer).

My boy loves the gruffalo

The books of Oliver Jeffers

Tom Gates got my DC into independent reading. They like books that are based on real life as they are more relatable. Tom Gates is good because the text is mixed with illustrations so easier to read.

Julia Donaldson's books got mine into reading because they enjoyed the rhyming, and if they weren't sure of a word, the rhyming helped them to work it out!

she loved it when we got the old school books out.5 minutes peace.rold dahl books.postman books.
harry potter being read to her.
phillip Pullman.the new one was great.

The Biff, Chip and Kipper books from primary school really got my kids interested. A fabulous series of books in my opinion.

My son was a good reader at school but found school books boring and uninspiring and didn't want to read outside of school - until I got him Horrid Henry books and The Diary of a Minecraft Zombie (he plays Minecraft). I think you just have to find out what they are interested in and get books on that...

It was non-fiction that finally got my reluctant 7 year old into reading for pleasure. We discovered the Lonely Planet Kids range and he's fallen in love with their nature, geography and history subjects.

Jacqueline Wilson and David Walliams are the two who I have to thank

Afraid it was all the usual suspects- Beano / Robot (gaming magazine) Wimpy Kid, Tom Gates, Big Nate, xxx Storey Treehouse series, Captain Underpants- particularly when I said it was the most banned book in American schools...
For my son, reading became a pleasure once it wasn’t difficult for him- about age 8. What got him reading voluntarily was fiction with lots of pictures, funny stories, familiar characters in series.

The Tom gates series by Liz pichon are the ones that really inspired reading for pleasure for my ds.

David Walliams, Jeff Kinney, but what it all started off with was Janet & Allan Ahlberg with those cheeky skelton's who venture out in the night. Personally I was a Mr and Mrs fan.

Julia Donaldson books , we loved the rhymes and characters , then he loved Mr men and now at 7 has just discovered David Walliams books

Titchy Witchy - the pictures help with the start of longer sentences and they are fun!