What was your favourite book as a child and what do you like to read to your children?

Question

The Three Little Pigs

Jack and The Beanstalk

Cinderella

Snow White

Princess and the Pea

The Gruffolo

The Little Red Hen

Pied Piper of Hamlet

Other.......

Many thanks

I am carrying out research as part of my Early Years coursework.

What books do your children like to read at home?

Answer 1

Sorry cant give you just one...I love to read and have since I can remember...all of my children have had a little bit different pattern of book loves ...

my son (now 28) loved the curious george books, then the boxcar children, then mostly science fiction books...He started reading when he was three....

my oldest daughter (now 26) favored the stan and jan bernstein(sp) series the bearnstein bears (mom, dad, brother, and sister and all of their friends and families) they were just like our family, and had over 30 books when she was small, she then moved on to a variety of books but mostly loved magazines.....

my youngest daughter (now 19) also began reading at age 3.....she liked all of the books her brother and sister liked and was especially in love with goodnight moon, the eric carle books(very hungry caterpillar, very busy spider, etc) also loved the dr. seuss books (hop on pop, ten apples up on top, put me in the zoo, etc)...and then moved on to sweet valley twins, r. l. stein--goosebumps, and then on to science fiction and fantasy...now loves to read john grisham, dean koontz, and almost any book she can get her hands on..

when they were all young their favorite books to listen to were....charlottes web, charlie and the chocolate factory, the boxcar children, and lots and lots of other books....

as a teacher my favorite books to read in class are anything by eric carle, stone soup, rainbow fish(the original one), and almost any book that shows how different but the same the world is today...(there is a whole series of books called ....bread, bread, bread....hats, hats, hats....houses, etc they have actual photos of these items from all over the world and allows a teacher to then jump off to have a tasting experience and other activities to do in class....and be sure to check out your local library...and the series of books called "story stretchers" they also have a lot of ideas...

Answer 2

The Katy books, What Katy did etc. My children liked books like Fungus the Bogey Man

Answer 3

A teenager here. I used to keep re-reading The Little Mermaid and Lion King... I still have a BIG THICK book of fairytales which I'm gonna keep to read to my kids in future if I have any... I read it to my nephews & nieces -.-

Answer 4

Gos the Goose, Quick, easy and full of tabs to lift with surprises under each!

Where Gos?

Good fun for the under 5's

Answer 5

When I was about 5 I loved the book called "The Magic Pudding" it was written by an Australian about 80 years ago and it's never been out of print over there since.

I loved the book "Treasure Island" when I was about 12, even today, I love that story, I'm 41 now.

I read Dickens "Great Expectations" when I was 14 and loved it.

Answer 6

Mine was Thidwick the big hearted moose by Dr. Seuss.  My kids have all picked their own favorites.  One absolutely loved I'll Love you Forever and another thought  The Velveteen Rabbit was the best.  My youngest loves Panda Bear Panda Bear What do you see?

Answer 7

well as im only 15  dont have children yet but when i was little i used to like peter rabbit or something wih pictures.

Answer 8

I can't remember what my favorite book was but I've still got one that I loved: "Cuthbert & Bimbo" - my daughter loves it too. When I got older I adored The Secret Garden :o)

My 6-year old liked Blue Kangeroo and anything by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Now she's seriously into Roald Dahl's stories.

Answer 9

The lady bird version of sleeping beauty, I knew it off by heart and used to pretend to read it to my mum even turning the pages at the right time! I don't have kids but when I baby sit they really enjoy  Hansel and Gretl and the Hungry caterpiller!

Answer 10

Anything by Mick Inkpen - i used to love readin "Where Oh Where is Kipper's Bear?" to my daughter.

Answer 11

As a child I loved the famous  five.

My eldest son(15) likes to read Darren Shan books.

My Daughter (13) Jacqueline Wilson books

My other son (11) Whatever takes his fantasy, Harry Potter etc...

My youngest (3)

The Gruffalo

The Gruffalos child

A squash and a squeeze

3 little pigs

The tiger who came to tea

The smartest Giant in town

Under the bed

The selfish giant

Mr Wolfs pancakes

My wolf and the enormous turnip.

The gingerbread man

Ahhhhhhhh there's too many to note down.  My 3 year old loves books, and his favourite place in the whole world is "Waterstones"

Answer 12

My fav was Pippi Longstocking.......l teach pre schoolers and their fav is We're going on a Bearhunt.so many great discriptive words there!!

Answer 13

I loved the book "where the wild things are", and I still love it now, I read it at least twice a week to my little boy and he loves the pictures too.

Answer 14

My favorite books when I was a child were Grimm's Fairy Tales and Andersen's FAiry Tales. What I read to my son were Grimm's, Andersen's, Aesops fables, all nursery classics, Shakespeare for kids, Sendac's wild things and anything else I could find.

Answer 15

I loved the whole Alice in Wonderland story.  It is still good even as an adult although my 11 year old son hates anything that isn't football related.

Answer 16

When I was young, my favourtie book (and I mean I liked it so much that my dad would have to read it as bedtime story EVERYNIGHT) was...

Cinderella. I know, it seems kinda crappy now. But as a young girl, it was amazing!

Oh, and Alice in Wonderland too!

Answer 17

I loved the magic faraway tree by Enid Blyton and my younger sister liked it too

Answer 18

Hi. My brother is 5 years old. He likes to read the books he gets from school, known as the Biff, Kipper and Chip range of stories.

He also likes to read Thomas the Tank Engine stories too.

When i was little, i had the entire Beatrix Potter Collection and liked to read about the floppsy bunnies, etc. I also liked to read Enid Blyton books and The Hobbit.

I also had the Disney books- Cinderella, snow white, and aladdin. When i was about 12/13 i read the secret garden book and loved it.

Answer 19

There was this version called Prince Cinders or something like that. I liked it a lot when i was a small boy. Anyways, I love reading anything that has colourful pictures or rather illustrations to go with the book.

Answer 20

I don't have kids ..but as a child those books seemed silly after the age of five. But before that it would have been Charlotte's Webb,Princess and The Pea, and Dr Seuss or Curious George.

Answer 21

Dr Seuss and Mr Men/ Little Miss for little kids and anything Roald Dahl as they get slightly older.

Definitely widely appealling and not gender specific. (although they are called Mr Men, boys and girls like them).

I read them to my 15yr old daughter when she was small, and now read them to my 4yr old son.

And I can't wait to start on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory again!!!