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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the kids read all kinds of books from having stories read to them up to reading Harry Potter, there is a great age difference from 8 months til 16 years, we have lots of different books, we even go to the library

Jake Atlas and the Tomb of the Emerald Snake by Rob Lloyd Jones. My son read the whole book in 2 days! He did not watch tv or play with his toys until he finished reading it! Then, it inspired him to write his own adventure story! I was very impressed!

Horrid henry, Then Harry potter. Now the Alex Rider books are popular.

The tiger who came to tea or mog. Judith Kerr is a fantastic writer and illustrator. My kids love her books.

I started reading to them when they were little, fairy tales, Mr men books and made up stories about what they were into at that given time ie football/princess's etc they loved them. As they got older and went to school there was so many books that really got them interested more.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid books have really appealed and encouraged my daughter to read, she has a degree of dyslexia so the fun story line, graphics among the text and short paragraphs like a hand-written diary format have made it easier for her to follow the sentences.

the Roald Dahl books really got my children into reading

My middle dc hated reading. She also took a while to grasp reading. She was still not completely adept at it aged six whereas a lot of children in her class could read simple words at reception already.

One year when she was six she got World book day tokens from school. I took both dc’s to the bookshop and for some reason dd2 was in a bad mood and refused to engage stating she wasn’t interested. So in desperation I grabbed a book called ‘the clever kitten’ by Holly Webb as dd2 loves cats.

I left the book in dd2’s room and a couple of days later found her reading it. A week after that she told me in conversation that the book was a part of a series and she wanted to read the rest of the books! I was so surprised and so so happy, I did buy her the series and she hasn’t looked back.

After reading the Holly Webb books, for a while DD2 used to write her own animal stories, she’s a voracious reader now and falls in love with books and talks incessantly about her latest book discoveries.

My kids got into reading by any books that contained stories and pictures of cats and dogs. They love animal stories.

It was the Biff and chip reader series that got my son into reading and he hasn't looked back.

Julia Donaldson, and of course Roald Dahl

Books have always played a huge part in our lives. Kids have always had so many. Probably for my daughter it was a book about "Dickie Donkey lost his Ee -Orr" ( something along those lines). She loved it and the book certainly looked like it was well loved. Have actually kept this book as a reminder as she grows!

my daughter still wasn't into reading at age 15, so I bought her the books I borrowed from my mum when I was young. The ones that started my love of reading were the Flowers In The Attic series by Virginia Andrews.

My son loves anything with flaps, pop up bits etc. But also Oi Frog and Oi Dog have been big hits.

My Ds loved the books by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler when he was younger,
The books that he’s read over and over again though are The Bad Guys series by Aaron Blabley and it’s inspired him to free read other similar books without me having to nag him to do so.
Seeing him love reading as much as I do makes me feel like I’ve won a little parenting victory

My son loves the Mr Men books to be read to him. Some words are quite complicated for him to be able to read himself, although he tries!

My little girl has really got into reading with the Mr Men and Little Miss series of books. They just the right length for reading to herself at night after we’ve said goodnight and I am pleased because they are really well written with a good range of vocabulary. So we are all happy! :-)

It was Horrid Henry books that got my son into reading! I loved to listen to the stories too which helps!

Both of mine have always loved reading and books (I secretly like to think it's because I always read to them as babies, but probably more they are just reading geeks like I was). The first 'series' my son got hooked on was "the House of Secrets' - he couldn't wait for the next books to come out after reading the first and has read them over and over and over again. He has then obviously loved the Harry Potter books. My daughter did read loads of Rainbow Magic books which did drive me slightly insane - but hey, they grow out of everything eventually!

The diary of a wimpy kid got my DS into reading as it was the first books that actually made him laugh out loud.

The Hungry Caterpillar and Spot the dog

My oldest got into Beast Quest books which helped his reading as they were interesting and exciting. You just have to find a book or set of books they are interested in and they will get into reading

My son loves the 'underpants' series of books. They have Aliens, Pirates and Dinosaurs as characters, all based around 'colourful, patterned underpants, which start the giggles. The illustrations are superb in large format books. The series allow for planning the next book and looking forward to it.

When they were little the Funny Bones books were bedtime favourites but when they became independent readers the Wimpy Kid books became their favourites. Funny books that are easy to read, lots of small diary entries instead of big daunting chapters.