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

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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?

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Heathcliffscathy · 28/05/2006 23:39

you just haven't found the right book to hit your blubbing button tc. snail and the whale is the only one that does this to me but it does it every time, even when i mentally prepare myelf.

having said that i always cry my eyes out at the end of 'the snowman' at christmas too so acutally i'm a fluffy idiot.

CountessDracula · 28/05/2006 23:39

ahhhh

watch out I may blub now!

Bless her - we must meet up soon get them all together...

CountessDracula · 28/05/2006 23:40

right must go to BED

Night chaps xxx

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Thomcat · 28/05/2006 23:42

you so don't strike me as the blubbing type. A meet up HAS to happen for sure.

Anyway - back to books .........

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CountessDracula · 30/05/2006 22:53

yes tc I am
Was blubbing in M&S at lunchtime reading the Ugly Duckling Blush at the end when he got lots of friends.

email me countessdrac at gmail dot com

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Thomcat · 30/05/2006 23:03

CD - home email is knackered. ummmmmmmm - beetroot and hunker have my mobile no. Email them and call or text me. Failing that, as of next Tuesday I am back at work (sad) so back on the old address.
PS -0 Ugly ducking - ohhhhhh yes, I'll give you that one.

I need to remember the words to the song to go with it.
Recently read it twice to Lotbags.

there once was an ugly duckling, with feathers all fluffy and brown, blah de blad de blahhhhhh ....said (noise of a duck) get out 9reapeat duck nise twice) get out of town, so he went with a .... and a waddle and a........

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Feistybird · 30/05/2006 23:06

Magic Faraway Tree - 2nd time around.

dewmeadow · 30/05/2006 23:12

Hand, hand, fingers, thumb - Dr Seuss
Old MacDonald's Farm Bord book

these are current favourites from her 100's. Also, likes Hairy Maclary (me too!!)

billiejo · 30/05/2006 23:53

oooh have to mention kez gray's books..... eat your peas and yuk.
ds1 (2.5) finds them hysterical and great pics too. xx

arfishymeau · 31/05/2006 00:00

The Wish Cat & Meg's Mummy.

Today in the day we read Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus.

arfishymeau · 31/05/2006 00:28

Should also mention the Bing Bunny books are excellent for 2 year olds. We had to read them every night for months.

FrannyandZooey · 31/05/2006 07:43

We have just found Anne Fine's Jamie and Angus stories. Great as ds wants 'proper books with chapters in' but most are either too complicated or unsuitable storylines for him. These are very gentle and easy stories about a little boy and his toy cow (!). Beautiful illustrations by Penny Dale.

Other favourites are Milly Molly Mandy and My Naughty Little Sister. We tried Josie Smith but her mum kept saying she'd spank her Shock

HarpsichordCarrierOnSea · 31/05/2006 07:50

Charlie and Lola I will never not ever eat a tomato
Some unspeakable Winnie the Pooh ones (not the originals) that my sister gave us unless I can hide them Shock. tried to read the originals but too long and complex still.
but mostly Beatrix Potter - the scarier\bloodier the better

FrannyandZooey · 31/05/2006 07:53

Oh Beatrix P so dull don't you think? Except Peter Rabbit which is marvellous. Dp reads B P for hours at weekends for his sins.

HarpsichordCarrierOnSea · 31/05/2006 07:55

funnily enough franny I am warming to BP. though quite often nothing happens at all
e.g. Mrs Tiggywinkle does some washing snoooooooze

Wallace · 31/05/2006 08:00

Almost at the end of The Witches by Roald Dahl. They are loving it, I had been worried it would be too scary - it has it's moments but nothing too bad! Kids are 6 and 4 BTW. Oh, and unborn baby seems to love it too judging by the wriggling Grin

Pruni · 31/05/2006 08:05

DS 2.6
Pumpkin Soup
Tatty-Ratty
Oscar and Arabella (mammoths)
Zagazoo, Quentin Blake, makes me cry
Mister Magnolia - screams of hilarity
Thomas TTEngine - old book not new crappy dumbed-down ones
Charlie and Lola
sometimes Maisy

fennel · 31/05/2006 08:20

for 4 and 6 year old, Sophie's Tom by Dick King Smith.

other recent favourites have been
Magic faraway tree
The little witch (an old german book)
The worst witch
Jennifer's diary (Anne Fine)
Back to front Benjy
Robomum

(all are short chapter books)

dd3, just 2. um, anything about teddy bears or farms.

manitz · 31/05/2006 08:32

for 3 and 1 year old older loves we're going on a bear hunt and other similar one which was mine about these odd looking bear type things that follow each otehr out of their beds and htrough the woods until they get scared??? also some princess book with alice and max, amelia bedelia, any mog, charlie and lola at the library, bagpuss, the church mouse

little one likes all older one's books and can often be found reading them upside down but particularly fond of sharing a shell (likes spotting the fish) and those counting ones with caterpillars and ladybirds made of plastic and hungry caterpillar and lazy ladybird, anything with popups or bits you can pull off!

hannahsaunt · 31/05/2006 09:21

Ds2 (3) has Ernie Dances to the Digeridoo every night (his choice) by Alison Lester - fabulous book.

Ds1 (5.5) is having the first Lemony Snicket book which I am finding dull but he's enjoying (but not as much as he likes Secret Seven).

joelalie · 31/05/2006 11:27

DD - Olga da Polga
DS#1 - Kingdom of Carbonel

Dad found a box of my old books in their attic a few months back and we're working our way through all my old favourites. Bliss!!!

JackieNo · 31/05/2006 11:29

DD (6) is currently alternating between Winnie the Pooh and Pippi Longstocking.

compo · 31/05/2006 11:31

2.2 ds is currently being read the Mr Men and Little Miss books at bedtime

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Bumblelion · 31/05/2006 12:28

My DD1 won't let me read to her - she is 13!!! My DS1 reads to me every night but whatever school book he is currently reading. My DD2 loves books, we also have a library full! I even got a library book stand from the school that they were selling just for the children's books. I kept lots of my books from when I was little (The Adventures of the Wishing Chair - date stamped 1972!, The Magic Faraway Tree - I just love Moonface) but my children never favoured the books I liked when I was a child.

My DD2 currently loves (but with my persuasion) Mog the Cat and The Cross with Us Rhinoceros (which is a lovely book that the illustrator - Paul Geragty - signed and drew a picture of my DD1 being chased by a rhinoceros for my DD at a school book fair. The Cross with Us Rhinocerous is about 4 children being chased by a cross rhinoceros but at the end he just wanted to be their friend. The words are a bit rhyming but not too much so. I also love The Selfish Crocodile and Little Tiger's Big Surprise (bought for my son when my DD2 was born).

I hate reading the Mr Men & Little Misses books. Had the whole set (bought for DD1 when she was about 2) but sold the whole lot at a boot sale for £5. I can't stand reading them - so boring.

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