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Oh I am a first time Grannie to a little girl born in February who was 3 weeks old when I last saw her before lockdown :-(
So not much chance to share stories with her yet and of course there will always be family favourites we can read ;-)
but I am ready with a new story.....Barry The Fish with Fingers.( Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet) YAY I can't wait ;-)

I love reading The Tiger Who Came To Tea to my nearly 2 year old Grandson. He enjoys growling when the tiger makes an appearance. I am reading it on Skype to him about once a week and missing him very much.

So many fantastic stories around its hard to pick one! I love Oliver Jeffers stories and also Diary of a wombat as the pictures are so good!

Little Lumpty is our favourite

3 Little Pigs an she loves it, she huffs and puffs with me whilst I am reading it to her.

My Grandson loves the Stickman - actually I think I love it as much as he does.

The book I love is "Guess How Much I Love You"
My children are both in their twenties now and they still remember us reading this book to them

Mr Men, there are lots of different ones.

I love reading Julia Donaldson books because the rhyming is fun and they can join in, our favourite is Room on the Broom.

My grachidren ove What The Ladybird Heard. I took them to see it on stage and then purchased the book, they love it.

My Daughter and i spent many hours together reading The magic faraway tree, now i read it to my Granddaughter using my Daughters copy from all those years ago.

Any Katie Morag story except that as I'm English am not allowed to read them - has to be Grandad as he is Scottish so reads them "properly" …

The very hungry caterpillar

Its got to be The gruffalo or Stickman. My grandson loves it and knows the gruffalo story off by heart. He's 3 and i miss him so much.

I'm reading Dr Suess to my grandson (The Star Bellied Sneetches).

(Someone upstream mentioned The Water Babies, that brought back a flood of memories, I used to love it too).

I love to invent the stories for my little grandson, usually I start with mythological legends but after the beginning of my fantastic story it turns out to be his magic Adventure involving him as the protagonist Hero!

The one I used to read to mine as children I now read to my Grandchildren. It's called "Naughty Daisy" which is about a cow called Daisy who was always running off and hiding when the farmer came to collect them

My 4 year old granddaughter loves the tale of Samuel Whiskers (also known as the Roly Poly pudding). Her grandpa sometimes wears a mustard coloured waistcoat.
I have also been known to push a wheelbarrow though I would never have "stolen" Miss Potter's.

I enjoyed reading 'The Wind in the Willows' to my children and grandchildren, giving all the characters different voices - the Mole, a down-to-earth home-lover; Ratty, posh accent, enjoying life 'just messing about in boats'.

I love reading Enid Blyton stories to the younger ones and Harry Potter to the older children - both for bringing some magic into their lives, and stories they are likely to remember all of the lives. I firmly believe that it is never too early to start reading to children and encouraging them to learn to read themselves. I used to sometimes read aloud when pregnant with my daughter and often wonder if that contributed towards her life-long love of books.

I am a real bookworm & always have been! Reading has bought me much pleasure over the years & I love to share that joy with the next generation (& the one after that!) - one of my favourites to share with the little ones is 'The Jolly Postman' - it has it all.. detailed illustrations, references to the classic fairytales & those wonderful little letters, booklets & cards in envelopes - perfect!

We love The Scarecrow's Wedding. I took two of my grandsons to see it at a small theatre, which was a real adventure together! We have made the characters to go in the garden, and reread the story often.

The Lion , The Witch and The Wardrobe- timeless and magical.

I like reading Katy and the Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton to Charlie. I had the book as a child so, when I saw it was still in print, I had to buy it for him. We especially like tracing Katy's route through the snow to rescue all the folk in Geopolis. I didn't realise reading it as a child that it has a positive female hero - just enjoyed the story!

I love to read the hungry caterpillar to my youngest Grandson