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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My son loved the books by Julia Donaldson as a toddler and then progressed on to Beast Quest books and those by Jeff Kinney and David Walliams.

My son went to bed one evening reading The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. I turned out the light after a bit, and thought he was asleep. He put his lamp back on after I went down, and carried on reading. Next thing, he came downstairs sobbing, saying "Aslan is dead!" I had to read the next two chapters to him, to let him know the happier ending! After that, he was completely hooked, and over the next few weeks, he read the whole series, and has been an avid reader ever since.

So many books, but the book that made the biggest lasting impression on all of my little ones is 'No,David!' by David Shannon.
From the beautifully drawn pictures (their favourite being naughty David running down the road showing his bare bum of course!) to the fact that they had all done something that the mischievous David had done, the book really caught their attention, and I think I must have read this book every night to my four DC for about 6 consecutive years! lol x

DD1 loves to read any books by Tom Gates and David Williams and can stay hooked for longer time.
DD2 loves all princess,magical and fairies books especially if its read to her as she's still learning how to read 😊

All the Roald Dahl books especially James and the Giant Peach

Rainbow magic got my daughter reading age 5, she's now 8 and enjoys goth girl, bedtime stories for rebel girls and Harry Potter

My daughter loved the How to train your dragon books and has read them over and over. My son has always love the fact books, How things work and stats on football. The Frankie's football books have been good as well. He is football mad so that helps him have an interest

I think the first book my daughter ever fell in love with was The Three Billy Goats Gruff, she knew it off by heart and would just sit there reciting it herself. She's always been a big reader and i was practising phonics with her the moment she started making any noise- mostly because i had grown up with a dyslexic brother who had spent years in speech therapy and had entered the teaching world myself to help other children who found reading difficult.

She was reading at one and there was no stopping her from then on. She read Matilda at 4 and absolutely fell in love with the titular character, by 5 she set herself a challenge to read 365 books in a year and finished in 10 months. She hasn't slowed down either, she just loves books and all kinds of books!

It's really weird because i always wanted to help children who struggled to read but reading clicked for her straight away. Most people think that it's hard if you are a reluctant reader- which it most certainly is but it's hard being a young competent reader when people don't know how to nurture and encourage your desire to read for pleasure all the time. School definitely struggled with how to approach and expand her reading which could have been deeply off putting but thankfully our local library was a genuine godsend because they recognised her passion and fed into it.

I was getting a bit worried as my 11 year old Son just didn't want to read. He used to when he was younger a lot, he loved Dirty Bertie but after that he just didn't want to know - it was just football football football. Until he got too year 6 and they have been reading the book "Once" - they have been using this book as part of the curriculum and he absolutely loves it. He talks to me constantly about the boy and what happens and has since started reading the other books which follow. I would never have thought this was his kind of thing but he is absolutely hooked.

Our three are proper bookworms and have been reading since they were three. My DS laughed out loud at the Mr Gum books, which my DD also loves. They also love all Roald Dahl books and in a similar way, David Walliams, and Julia Donaldson is a firm favourite.

Wimpy Kids Series, Timmy Failure, Barry Loser are all my son's favourite books. At present he is into Simon Mayo, Rick Riodan etc. Enjoys reading immensely!

I grew up loving Charlotte's Web and Roald Dahl books then Goosebumps and it rubbed off on my cousin as i use to have to read them to her and even do the voices and so the love of them books continue and even now I have fond memories of reading them and i still love to read paper books

Harry Potter! DS really dislikes reading and finds it hard work, but the sheer determination to find out what happens next in Harry Potter drives him on. Don't know what we'll do when he finishes them - start again maybe!

We've gone a bit retro, and my son is really enjoying the Puddle Lane books! They are great for sharing the text. X

From an early reading age at school my son was reluctant to pick a book up but enjoyed being read to. A teacher decided he might be more interested in some factual science books and that's how he learnt to read. At age 8 he was given the Harry Potter series and has never looked back . He has reread those books many times. His school reports often come back now with should pay more attention to what we are doing in class rather than reading his own books. I'm not worried about that just glad the HP books finally unlocked his passion for literature.

All the Julia Donaldson books got them into reading. We'd act out the chatacters while reading them.

We read together every evening: I read a few chapters to my son, then he reads to me. The first proper books (rather than Kip & Biff boring stuff) that made him enjoy books were Horrid Henry Easy Reader series, followed by all The Wimpy Kid series.
We're reading Bad Dad now.

The Goosebumps books

my daughter loves David Walliams books, she is just reading Bad Dad, i cant wait for her to finish so i can read it too it looks hilarious x

DS always loved books with a lot of drawings and fun in it. Tom Gates and the Nate books were the ones which completely drew him in at first.

My son got into reading when he found a book about zombies at his school. He is autistic but became really excited when reading out passages to his family and maling us go squirm.

As huge dinosaur fans, it was any text book containing these prehistoric beasts (i.e. 'I Like Dinosaurs' from Heinemann, the 'Jurassic Park / Jurassic World' storybooks, etc.).

Now, they're getting into football, so these 'Football School' books would be something to look forward to.

biff
harry potter
mr men
the postcard book
peter rabbit
hungry caterpillar
five minutes peace
postman pat
kids illustrated bible

The Magic Pudding written & illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It's a very funny Australian book published nearly a century ago according to Wikipedia - I had the Puffin version as a child & read and reread it. My children loved it too.

The Dinosaur that pooped the .............. series, PLANET, CHRISTMAS,
THE BED .....................and so on.............
Both children love the silly, rudeness with wonderful illustrations.
Written by Tom Fletcher