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The secret garden

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot - a real insider's knowledge of our furry friends!!!

Mine are still tiny so Little Rabbit FooFoo is a great favourite - we can all recite it by heart.

I love reading Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson. The children love the part when the monkey says NO! NO! NO!

The lord of the rings as it's so well written.

We're absolutely loving The BFG at the moment!

The Gruffalo as it's their favourite story.

The Tiger who came to Tea was a favourite with my children, and now my grandchildren.

The 'Oi Dog' series has been a huge success with all my grandchildren.
They belly laugh at the nonsense of these books - and so do I!

My grandchildren love Shark in the Park, they love the familiarity of the rhyme and anticipating the end of the sentences. It is a joy to read to them

Old Bear books by Jane Hissey

I love reading them the Wonky Donkey. They love that I can’t get through it without laughing out loud

I got my granddaughter Winnie the Witch by Gorky Paul and she loves it . I love it too the illustrations and shouting Abracadabra especially ...always helps to love the stories too...must have read it 100 times. She now has a whole collection of Winnie stories and can chose different ones each time I stay.

I love you to the moon and back. I've read it to all my grandchildren.

It has to be a The Tiger Who Came to Tea. Read to my Two little great grandsons.

I love reading Oi get off our train! To my 2 year old grandson - he loves shouting out that sentence as it crops up through the story. It’s a lovely book with an environmental message too.

My granddaughter has recently moved on from The Very Hungry Caterpillar to The Gingerbread Boy - helped, I think, because we make gingerbread men! I have an old Ladybird version which is quite graphic about the fox eating him in fractions but good for early maths even if she is only 2 1/2!!

Goldilocks and the Three Bears because I love trying to do funny voices.

We're Going On A Bearhunt
Have read it to all my grandchildren, boys and girls. Never Ages.

Danny champion of the world

The 8 year old The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The 5 year old he likes Shaggy Dog and the Terrible Itch.

I have three granddaughters all of whom love anything my Julia Donaldson. Their particular favourite at the moment is the Smeds and the Smoos. We first read this on holiday last Autumn and has been popular ever since

So many books to share and enjoy together with a granddaughter aged 5 and grandson nearly 3 plus a new baby due in early July. They both love any of the Thomas books and their favourite author at the moment is Nick Sharratt.

The Tiger who came to Tea is a family favourite! It’s been read over and over again! That’s always a good sign of a good book!

When my grandson (nearly 5) was about 22 months old, I bought The Stick Man by Julia Donaldson to read to him, he loved it, he enjoys all her stories. A young friend told me about a fairly local place to take him for an outing - Yeadon Tarn - when we parked the car, got him out and got out of the car park, started walking down towards a huge great water area, he looked at me and said “where is the Stick Man”, to him it looked just like one of the walks the Stick Man takes. I thought that was so beautiful and think of it often, especially as he now lives abroad, whoops eyes are getting misty.