Fairy tales/bedtime stories

[allatsea]

Can anyone recommend a good book of fairy tales and/or bedtime stories?

my dds two and a half and ever since she was a baby ive read her lauras star by klaus baumgart.he also wrote axmas one too which ive just ordered for the xmas season.the book itself isnt very long but when she was younger she loved looking at the pictures too,so much in fact its looking very battered now!

The Walker Book of Bear Stories is good and includes stories like We are Going on a Bear Hunt and Go to Sleep Little Bear, my dd's favourite bedtime story was - and still is - Wishing Moon. There are loads of books 'Fairy Tale' books that include a variety of traditional stories - I have one that is basically traditional stories like Little Red Riding Hood but they have a modern feel to them - but, of course, I can't remember it's title and I am at work at the moment.
The Ladybird books are quite good and small enough to take out or away with you - they used to do mini versions of these books (about a third of the usual size) but I can't seen any for ages.

allatsea - what sort of age are you dealing with? If you particularly want fairy tales, I can recommend the new ones published by MacMillan, and illustrated by Nick Sharratt. They are in verse, and have 'lift the flaps' for added interest. So far they have done: Cinderella; The Three little pigs; Little Red Riding Hood; and Jack and the Beanstalk.

If you just want general books, mumsnet has got a good section on good books for different ages.

I love spending money on children's books, and there's some fantastic ones out there. Generally I would steer away from big anthologies of bedtime stories - tend not to be such good quality, not so 'readable', and they're quite heavy to manage whilst cuddling up for storytime!

Ditto Jaybee's suggestion of Ladybird books. These are good versions of traditional tales, and also they are 'early readers', so will come in useful later on, when your child is starting to read.

Thanks all, dd is 8mo and loves books and stories - current favourites are Dear Zoo, and It's Mine. I like the sound of the Walker book Jaybe and of the one illustrated by Nick Sharratt. I had also thought that a large anthology would be a little cumbersome, however Grandma's are asking for present ideas and I would prefer these to a Barbie or Tellytubby!

Jonathan Langley's versions of the traditional tales are great.
Our current fav's are Percy the Park Keeper (any of them) and The Very Small by Joyce Dunbar, illustrated by Debi Gliori (fab!!). I also LOVE Ten Out Of Bed by Penny Dale and The Owl Babies by Martin Waddell. There's another totally gorgeous book that I read to my class whenever I can, called Wilfrid Gordon MacDonald Partridge ( about a little boy who finds an old lady's memories - guarrenteed to bring a tear to your eye!), but I can't remember who wrote it off the top of my head, sorry!

This thread made me remember something lovely that my dd 4 (at the time) once said. We had been reading a bedtime story around Christmas time (fairy theme) and I had told her that the fairies take your Christmas wish list to santa. So after the story I popped her list through her top bedroom window and we said our goodnights. A few minutes later there was this pitter patter and down the stairs she flew eyes wide open and beaming 'Mummy the baby fairies are at my window, come and see they have come for my letter, they are outside my window!!' I raced upstairs to meet the fairies (?) and she proceeded to show me all the baby fairies (flies/midgies)that were in fact flying around our garden light which is right outside her bedroom window - how sweet.