Books your grandchildren love

Better read the book, Annika. It's really excellent. I wish I'd thought of getting it a year ago when my DiL's old cat died at Christmas. But I think it would have set her off, never mind the GSs.

Annobel Oh don't tell me Mog dies , I'm off to get a tissue to wipe my eyes! Better not tell GD about this

I read 'Goodbye Mog' actually in the bookshop (sorry, W.....) because at the time I didn't have grandchildren of the right age. I was very dewy-eyed by the end, but it's a moving account of the death of an old friend and a sensitive introduction to the subject of death.

My nine-year-old gd speaks highly of the Shapeshifter series, about a boy who changes into a fox! And, of course Jacqueline Wilson.

My GD loves Mog the forgetful cat. She is 7 now and that is the book she takes to bed with her every time she stays over night, it comes with a cd so she can listen to it while she falls asleep

Catalogues are fatal, gracesmum. They soon get the hang of telling granny exactly the items they want for birthday/Christmas!

I feel a bit cynical about Mr Men books - still waiting for "Mr Loaded" to be published!
Many of your favourites are also mine - but when our DDs were little they adored "Where The Wild Things Are" - GS perhaps too young for it at 18 months.He loves The Gruffalo, Hary MacLairey, Owl Babies, Hungry Caterpillar etc
Caught him walking round the kitchen concentrating hard on a lego leaflet (pictures of sets etc) when asked what he was doing he replied "I didding" (I reading!)

Good. But at 6months I think my gd may be little young. Looking forward to when I can read with her. Do they still do the mister men books? My dh used to do a GREAT mr loud.

I was thinking about that in the bath this morning Cari - wondering what had happened to it!

Will do Carol.

I've got to stop reading this thread now! Ordered a Mr Gum for the 10 year old and a Sea Serpent one from the Beast Quest series for the 6 year old. (signed up for free 1 month trial of Amazon Prime so get next day delivery for free!)

Read them with him Jingl. They are so funny x

My grandson (10) loves 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' books Carol. Will take a look at the Mr Gum ones for him, too. He likes funny books.

Not all of my grandchildren have found learning to read easy, but I have one grandaughter who is absolutely flying. She hadn't started reading before she went to school, but in eighteen months has become a fluent reader and a complete bookworm who currently devours one of the fairy books every night. The school have been wonderful and have given her every support and stimulation to race ahead of most of her class. It is lovely to see, our only problem is to make enough trips to the library to keep her happy!

My 11 year old grandson loves 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' and 'Mr Gum' series of books. He giggles all the way through them, and often reads his newest book twice.

My 3 year old grandsons love 'I wrote to the zoo' which has the zoo sending a series of unsuitable pets to a child, so each page is accompanied by a chorus of 'send it back' in stereo - they love interactive books.

One of them was sat in the bath pretending he could read shampoo instructions from the bottle last night. 'It says here that I am going to fly high up in the sky on a holiday tomorrow, mummy!' Early signs that he is ready to start reading. I love it when they discover that books hold so much excitement for them.

And Horrible Histories - the more horrible the better for the 7+ age group. Bloodthirsty lot!

My GD loves Horrid Henry, I'm not so sure!

We recently found a great baby book for our granddaughter called baby giggles with little press points that played different giggles - we love it.

My children and the next generation have all loved 'The Elephant and the Bad Baby' by Elfrida Vipont and Raymond Briggs. It has rhythm and repetition which small children thoroughly enjoy. Be warned, one reading at bedtime is rarely enough! Luckily it's short - ideal from about 18 months.

We are enjoying the 'Beast Quest' series at the moment GS is 5 yrs old.

Re The Jungle Book; one of my favourite films of all time is the 1942 Jungle Book made by Alexander Korda and starring Sabu. My 4 year old grandson actually sat and watched it with me a few months ago. It always seemed to be on the telly when I was a child, and it was a bit of a shock years later to find it was made in colour.