Please or to access all these features

Add post

Watch this thread

Save thread

Start a new thread

Flip thread

Hide thread

My feed

Active Unanswered threads

Getting started FAQ's

Unanswered threads Acronyms Talk guidelines

Hide shortcut buttons

Talk

What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Flip

1 2 3

Original poster

What are you currently reading you DS/DD at bedtime?

64 replies

Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:12

The other thread about do you miss out on reading to your kids at night just had me wondering.

DD1's current favourites are "Laura's Star' and 'Pumpkin Soup'.

My favourite to read to her is 'The Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed'.

I'm also reading her bits of Wind in the Willows but she keeps either falling aslep or saying 'all finished'!!

What are your kids current favs and what is your fav to read to them?

OP posts:

SparklyGothKat · 28/05/2006 23:20

DD2's favourites are 'Sharing a shell' lovely book. 'to catch a star' not that fond of it myself and 'suggle down sleeply ones (I think thats the name lol) beautiful book about going to sleep.

Miaou · 28/05/2006 23:22

My dds are 8 and 7 and we are reading "The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler" by Gene Kemp, which I had read aloud to me when I was at school. We are all really enjoying it (a chapter a night).

Previous reads include Wolf Brother and Spirit Walker by Michelle Paver, and I have the Peppermint Pig (Nina Bawden) lined up for next week.

tortoise · 28/05/2006 23:23

The hungry caterpillar.

sallystrawberry · 28/05/2006 23:23

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

SparklyGothKat · 28/05/2006 23:23

Dh reads to dd1. I think he is reading 'the hobbit' though I think its more for him that her lol
DS reads to himself now. He was reading 'a dog so small' but he is now reading something else 9he has so many books, he chooses)

Original poster

Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:24

Wiull make a list of the ones that appeal to me and get them for DD, and me. Sharing a shell sounds nice. How old is your DD2 Sparklygothkat? (mine is 4.5 btw)

OP posts:

Heathcliffscathy · 28/05/2006 23:25

he chooses and tonight it was the snail and the whale (which never fails to get me so choked at the end that i have trouble finishing it), followed by can you choo choo too followed by dilly ducking followed by that's not my bear to finish.

was a long read tonight...

SparklyGothKat · 28/05/2006 23:26

she is 4.5, Sharing a shell is a great book, with sparkly pics (which she loves) its from the ELC.

Original poster

Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:27

Soiph - think I love ypou more if that poss now that i know the snail and the whale chokes you. you big ole softie

OP posts:

SparklyGothKat · 28/05/2006 23:28

see \link{http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1405020482/qid=1148855247/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/203-4412754-7919153\here} :)

hulababy · 28/05/2006 23:28

Recently finished Flat Stanley. DD is also enjoying Naughty Ameilia Jane and My Naughty Little Sister - they take me back to childhood too. Oh, and she has a couple of Enid Blyton books with short stories in - some about a Mr Twiddle - whoch she really enjoys. DD is 4y1m.

Original poster

Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:28

Perfect thank SGK. Any shark action in it? DD1 obsessed with them at the moment!

OP posts:

Original poster

Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:29

Ohhhhh thank you for the reminder, I have to buy my naughty little sister, tomorrow. i LOVED it when I was a kid. Want to join you in the tears Soph.

OP posts:

Heathcliffscathy · 28/05/2006 23:29

really struggled tonight....was bit hungover so extra emotional and had to pause loads to gather myself to get to the end (he sits on my lap so couldn't see the tears rolling down my face. it's the fact that the little snail saves the whale. and that the world is so big and she is so small. but she saves the whale. oh god, i'm off.

Original poster

Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:30

bloody love you Soph, you rock

OP posts:

SparklyGothKat · 28/05/2006 23:30

no shark action but lovely glitterly pics (I like sparkly things!!! lol :))

Heathcliffscathy · 28/05/2006 23:32

CountessDracula · 28/05/2006 23:33

soph still hungover?? (me too eurgh)

I blub regularly during books it is most embarrassing, dd says to me "mummy your eyes are sweaty again"

She loves Laura's Star tc

The Magic Bed is a fave atm as well, as are Hairy Mclarey books (I LOVE them!)

Original poster

Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:33

I would never have guessed SPARKLYgothkat!

Anyone know th ebook the Baby Who Wouldn't Go to Bed. I love it. Makes me ywn my head off evry time i read it though

OP posts:

CountessDracula · 28/05/2006 23:36

tc how is your new addition doing?

SparklyGothKat · 28/05/2006 23:36

lol TC.. :):) I will let you know the name of that other book tomorrow, if I go into her room now, she will wake up..

Original poster

Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:36

look - I'm the oppy one round here, why aren't I blubing at kids books?

i cried yesterday, (DD has to wear glasses and I had a little cry as I stroked her to sleep) and she held y face and said 'don't cry mummy, der, der, all better' and kissed my face. Ohhhhhh what bliss.

BUT, never cried reading her a book. What's wrong with me?!!!!!!!

OP posts:

CountessDracula · 28/05/2006 23:36

you one haaaard mutha

CountessDracula · 28/05/2006 23:37

I blub at anything though

Honestly

Original poster

Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:38

CD -0 new addition is bloody fab. what a great kid. Smies loads, hardly cries. cute folds in legs, lights up when she sees her big sis, doesn't get much better. She's slotted into life so easily it's scary, I worry i'll forget her. She really is lovely, for now anyway!

OP posts:

Flip

1 2 3

Swipe left for the next trending thread