Bedtime story

[Rickster123]

I like to read my kids a bedtime story each night. The favourite at the moment is anything by roald dahl. The man was a genius. The kids are mesmerised by the story's each night. They are the same story's that my dad read to me as a kid and they've stayed with me forever. Funny how a simple story can bring back so many memories. Anyone have any favourites?

 

[gavinwilson]

The faraway tree by Enid blyton

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[kay-jay]

Treasure island

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[markfxy]

My littl'un wanted me to read cat in the hat, fox in socks, green eggs and ham and all the other tripe in that series didn't last long I soon lost those books in the bin!

 

[Guest123]

CS Lewis books, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Great books for kids (and big kids).

 

[Gray0689]

I like to read my kids a bedtime story each night. The favourite at the moment is anything by roald dahl. The man was a genius. The kids are mesmerised by the story's each night. They are the same story's that my dad read to me as a kid and they've stayed with me forever. Funny how a simple story can bring back so many memories. Anyone have any favourites?

Used to do the same mate
She has the full series of books
Pure genius

 

[Dotty]

I read Terry Pratchett to my two, and occasionally played them this!

Three Little Pigs - Green Jello

 

[Rickster123]

CS Lewis books, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Great books for kids (and big kids).

CS Lewis wrote fantastic stories and I think a couple of years down the line they will be on the shelf too. I can remember watching the series on tv years ago and was hooked.

 

[zeebeedee]

The faraway tree by Enid blyton

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Loved these books as a kid! My imagination used to run wild reading them.

 

[Rickster123]

Loved these books as a kid! My imagination used to run wild reading them.

I think kids imagination is what makes these stories so good. I'm reading them George's marvellous medicine at the moment and my daughter really believes its a true story!

 

[Guest123]

A more modern slant are the books from the Neverending Story. Loved the movies too and that theme tune stays in your head all day.

And one I got as a kid.....The Railway Children.

 

[SimonG]

Used to have all the ladybird books as a kid 'elves and the shoemaker' and all that. Then went onto a few box sets that included '20,000 leagues under the sea' and 'gullivers travels'. By that time I was into my 'commando' action books. Bit older and it was anything by james herbert.

 

[Guest123]

Used to have all the ladybird books as a kid 'elves and the shoemaker' and all that.

So did I and remember them well, one was called Piggy played Truant!

 

[SimonG]

So did I and remember them well, one was called Piggy played Truant!

Didn't have that one.

 

[Rickster123]

A quote by Roald Dahl - Quotables

My daughter Lucy's favourite quote from tonight.

 

[vern]

Treasure island

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^^^^^^This Remember George was a girl! 5 on a treasure island best book ever

 

[Dotty]

I loved The Phantom Tollbooth as a kid, then got into treasure island and Sherlock Holmes.

 

[SimonG]

School had some good ones, Moonfleet, Lord of the Flies, Stig of the Dump, Kes.

 

[Rickster123]

Think how many of these great stories would never be written today for fear of offending someone.

 

[Ray Stafford]

Enid Blyton when I was young. When I got a bit older, I had a "shipwreck" fetish, and read Tarzan, Swiss Family Robinson and Robinson Crusoe over and over again. Weird looking back.

+1 for the C S Lewis Narnia books.

More recently, I was on jury service, and waited ages for a case - just had to sit there for hours. I read a load of Wilbur Smith books back to back. Strangely, I had never read one before, and never read one since - just that 10 days or so.