Mumsnet users share with Scottish Friendly their favourite books to read to their children

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Reading to your DCs can be a great source of not only downtime and bonding but it can also help your children learn and develop. Many of our most nostalgic memories contain at least one recollection of our parents reading our favourite book to us, therefore Scottish Friendly would love to know which your favourite books are to read to your children and why? Plus what are your favourite childhood books?

Do you love reading the classic Winnie the Pooh because you get to do all the voices? Perhaps your DC loves adventure books and you’re not one to shy away from acting out the scenes? Or do you love a books that your child can read along with you? Maybe you and your DC love to get all cosy with some pillows and blankets and read their favourite Roald Dahl book together?

Here’s what Scottish Friendly have to say: “With just two weeks left of summer, perhaps it’s getting to that time when you’re looking for new ideas to keep your little darlings amused. Even if it’s just to give yourself the chance of a well-deserved cuppa and to put your feet up for longer than 5 minutes!

Scottish Friendly is celebrating 20 years of supporting children’s literacy with a game your kids can play called ‘Letterfall’. It’s fun and educational too, and to celebrate this milestone anniversary we’ve added an extra twist! Now kids all over the UK can play to try to beat the current high score for a chance to win a fantastic prize for their school – an iPad Pro, iPad and an iPad Mini are all up for grabs! Visit the site to play (terms apply, more details on the website.)”

Whatever your favourite book to read to your child is and why, share it on the thread below to be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!
MNHQ

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I read anything silly to my son so Dirty Bertie is a favourite

We are currently loving reading the Axel Scheffler Pip and Posy books, lots of lovely little messages about friendship and happy endings. Plus the books are so wonderfully illustrated there is always lots of things to spot and talk about.

Love reading with my son; All of Julia Donaldson’s books, Hairy Maclary and oodles of poetry when he was little.

He’s seven now and cherishes his books at bedtime. He’s nearly finished all the Harry Potter series, some of which we read together to start with. But, our favourite to read together (equally for him and me) is the Podkin series. The third book comes out this month and we’ve waited a year for it, so that’s bedtime sorted for a couple of weeks.

We just have to hide the book in between shared reading...!

Julia Donaldson books are a big hit here, even the youngest loves to stare at the pictures and listen to the rhythm of the rhymes. The Gruffalo is a favourite, along with the Snail and the Whale.

My twins are three .
Poo in the Zoo is a favourite
I love On the night that you were born
The Hackney Martian
Bears Big Bottom
Solomon and Mortimer

I love the Alfie and Annie-Rose stories by Shirley Hughes - thankfully DD enjoys them too! Lovely retellings of everyday childhood events.

With my youngest (6) our fave book is the smartest giant in town. We like the rhythm, rhythm is what keeps it fun, plus we made up our own melody to sing the chorus with. My eldest (8) we love the horrible history books (she LOVES non fiction!) or we've just started reading the Harry Potter books. I must admit that's my influence though because I loved those books growing up. She's an avid Jacqueline Wilson fan too!

The bear with the sticky paws is a serious winner round here. I also love reading David walliams to big bro.

My daughter loves the classics and at the moment it's all about Enid Blyton's Famous Five. She loves the books because it's all about children having adventures and making decisions for themselves (often away from adult eyes!!) I love them because it's a nostalgia trip 😊

I’m reading Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh to my ds at the moment. We’re on the third book and he loves them - so do I. They are my old childhood copies, and even though she wrote them in the sixties, I think they have held their appeal really well.

The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar and Spot the Dog because those were my favourites!

My 2.5 year old loves Mog and the Baby and Alfie’s Feet.

My son loves Julia Donaldson books...and so do I!

My youngest daughter loves the Harry Potter books but still likes a Beatrice Potter story every now and again.

The Gruffalo. Night Monkey and Day Monkey. Flat Stanley

My son is 5 and loves the biff and chip books x

DS(3) is loving the Gingerbread man just now! He wants it over and over again and loves being able to say parts of it himself.

I love reading my youngest books that I was read to as a child so Shirley Hughes titles, Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum, and the Mog stories.

My older ones I enjoy reading with them or to them. Current favourites include The Naughtiest Girl in the School and Lauren Childs Ruby Redfort series.

My kids love David Walliams books and also Micheal Rosen's books

So many different books to choose from so many great stories and sometimes I just make up a story from what I have learnt from other books, all good fun.

Roald Dahl books, i had them all as a child, so timeless, classics!

Anything my Roald Dahl- my lil boy loves them x

Enid Blyton's the magic faraway tree.
This was my favourite book as a child filled with wonderful characters and adventures.
My granddaughters now love it too.

My two love reading the BFG

the smaller ones mr & miss men as well as hungry caterpillar
the older ones The Popcorn Pirates always makes them & me giggle