Have you continued reading bedtime stories to dc once they are fairly fluent readers, and if so, what books have they enjoyed?

[Earlybird]

....reading together is such a lovely end to the day, so we are continuing with the tradition. Would appreciate suggestions of specific books please.

How old are the dcs?

We still read to ds every night even though he is 8 and a fluent reader. Sometimes we do some of whatever his current school reading book is, sometimes we have something separate on the go

Yes, we still read to ds1 (9) and ds2 (nearly 8) as well as ds3 (4).

Then they getting a little reading time on their own afterwards.

What age are your dcs? Hard to recommend books without knowing...

DD is almost 7, and fairly sophisticated.

Lemony Snicket?
Stig of the Dump?
Charlotte's Web?

DS is 6 (nearly 7)and a fluent reader. We just read whatever we fancy. For some reason he likes me to read to him and then he will read some of his reading book to me. So I go along with it. ATM DH is reading him the first Harry Potter and I am reading him My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry. He could definitely read that to himself no problem and could probably manage reading Harry Potter but might struggle with understanding some of it.

Other books we have read are various horrid henrys and captain underpants (reads these to himself a lot though as well), charlotte's web, some Michael Murpurgo books etc.

I have bought him a set of 20 sprinter books from the book people for Christmas, some of these might end up being read to him, I am also looking at getting the magic farway series and have asked for stig of the dump from family. My MIL has bought him a Blyton set of Aventure books.

I have only just stopped reading to dd - she is 11. Once she was reading for herself we went for harder books for read-alouds - a lot of "classic"children's books that she probably wouldn't read for herself. Things like Little Women, the Secret Garden, The Little Princess....I really miss it now. She still asks for a story if she's really tired or a bit sad or she's had a hard day - I look forward to it!

A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Five Children and It
Ballet Shoes
The King of the Copper Mountains
The Land of Green Ginger
Atticus the Storyteller
Finn Family Moomintroll
Lotte and Lisa

Oh have also done quite a lot of Roald Dahls and have bought Fantastic Mr Fox for his stocking.

What about Wind in the willows, Alice in Wonderland, that kind of thing?

What Katy did.

Thanks porpoise, will consider those.

Thinking of starting the Laura Ingalls Wilder 'Little House' series, or maybe the first Harry Potter.

The challenge is that a fluent reader is probably capable of reading/comprehending the books themselves - but a story at bedtime is a tradition I'd like to continue for as long as possible.

Ramona the Pest
Pippi Longstocking
Heidi

Land of Green Ginger! LOVE that. Most communication between my brother an I constits of quotations from it!

Laura Ingalls Wilder is a lovely idea, I loved those and re-read them loads of times

Little house on the prairy.

Marina's post has started making me think about what I read as a girl rather than what DS reads now. But I do have a DD as well but she is still stuck with princesses and fairies and Dora.

I think reading and being read to are completely different things.

I like the idea of Little House on the Priory. Very Anthony Trollope.

(sorry - I'll get my coat)

Yes - we always have a story in the evening, plus DD reading to me when its her school reading night (she's 8 and doesn't have to do it every day now).

Currently working through Atticus the Storytellers 100 Greek myths. She keeps begging for 'just one more' so we're getting through about 10 a night!

She chooses. Sometimes Dr Seuss for twisting my poor old tongue or things that benefit from silly voices - not necessarily anything that would be hard for her to read.

Also things like the Narnia stories (stopped short of the Last Battle as yet) and Roald Dahl eg Danny the Champion of the world

I totally agree with you, and I think it is one of DS's lovely things still. Because his sister is either in bed or being read to by the other parent and we snuggle up in bed together and sometimes we also talk about things that have happened in the day. He also loves reading to me. When he was still learning to read I used to avoid doing it at bedtime, but now that it is just practice it is no problem and means that DD is not inserting herself between him/me/the book.

DS often rereads the harry potter chapter next day, but I think reading it with DH helps him take in the story more.

Seeker that's lovely.

We still read to ds (7), then he has half an hour of reading alone in bed when he might continue with our book or read something else.

Things he has recently enjoyed:
Danny the Champion of the world
Tom's midnight garden
Lion, witch and wardrobe
The borrowers
Spydog

He loves all the Harry Poyyers we have read so far too (we are half was through Order of phoenix) but have had to abandon late night reading of them as he gets too scared - vv over active imagination!

Oh - I keep meaning to get the Little House on the Paerie books. My dd may like them too (we all like reading together sometimes).

Agree with Seeker. It's a lovely bonding thing for the child and parent - and a way to share their love of books.

Also you could use it as a way to introduce them to books they don't quite feel capable of reading on their own yet - books written a longish time ago, for instance, where the language may seem a little old-fashioned or over-descriptive.

I recently read Rosemary Sutcliffe's Robin Hood to my two older ones. They wouldn't have read this on their own - too much flowery description of Sherwood Forest at the beginning of each chapter! - but they loved listening to it.

No, we stopped

Every now and then, if we can fit it in, they both jump into my bed and we all snuggle up and read an old favourite of theirs (like 'Wanted, Have you Seen This Alligator' or a chapter from a non-fiction book that they really enjoy especially Greek myths, they love those stories!).

Gah! Am now itching to go onto amazon and order yet more books for the dcs for christmas. They don't really count as presents do they

Tom's Midnight Garden is a lovely book to read out loud.

The Moomin books? Green Smoke and Dragon In Danger by Rosemary Manning.

Mine both loved them.

I still read to DS#1 who is 10 and occassionally to 8 yr old DD (when she lets me). I would really miss it.