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My 2 young grandsons ages 2&3(brothers), Love me to read the Charlie&Lola book, titled "I will not Ever Never eat a tomato" its a 10th Anniversary Edition by 'Lauren Child', Charlie is Lola's older brother and his parents have him giving Lola her lunch, which includes fish fingers, peas, carrots and of course tomatoes, but when Lola doesn't want to eat anything especially tomatoes, Charlie comes up with fun names and stories for the food, which Lola then goes on happily to eat, even when it comes to eating the tomatoes she names them herself and calls them "moonsquirters", my grandsons always shout out together when we get to that part "they're not tomatoes, they're 'moonsquirters', well from the 2 year old I can just make out what he's saying, it's lead to myself their mum, my DD, coming up with fun names for food, when they say they don't like it and most of the time it works and they try the food they say they don't like and end up loving it!. xx

The Adventures of Pip the Pixie it has so much imagination in it that it gets my grandchildren's imagination going too.

ELMER the patchwork elephant! I loved in when I was younger and it has such a lovely message of acceptance in it's pages

My grandson loves to hear the Story Thomas the Hero.

Kipper's A to Z, great illustrations and learning at the same time

I love reading the Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine to my Grandchildren. They help children understand the fact that the fearless can survive any danger when they make the right decisions.

Love the gruffallo

Each, Peach, Pear, Plum by Allan and Janet Ahlberg is such a joy to read with my little ones. They just love the rhyming story and spying the classic characters on each page. Such a clever little book that entertains repeatedly.

The Tiger who came to Tea - I love it as much as the children do!

Dear Zoo - its one I never tire of reading and one they never tire of listening to

My son loved Peace at Last and now my grandson loves it too

he loves thomas the tank engine, and also any stories with animals!

Spot the dog and Mog stories by Judith Kerr. Absolutely terrific stories to share?

My grandchildren love the old Rupert Bear books with three levels of reading. The stories are so well written they take children to magical faraway places.

The Alfie and Annie Rose story book - I've read this to my children and now to my grandson Alfie!

It has to be anything from the Famous Five - he loves to hear their adventures and always wants one more chapter!

All of the Spot stories - my grandchildren always enjoy opening the flaps. I have a 1983 copy of Where's Spot that I'd read to my children and they like seeing it next to the newer version - they can't believe that their dads used to read the same book.

My granddaughter love Rosie and Jim stories . So many adventures these two get up too. Grandchildren favourite

Rosie and Jim story books are my grandchildren favourite

We love reading The Gobble Gobble Moooo Tractor Book by Jez Alborough; the toddler grandchildren are able to identify the farm animals and join with me in making the animal noises. Great fun for all!

The Magic Tomato!
This is a different story everytime - not a written version, but one my husband invented for bedtime. The grandchildren loved them - all different adventures where a 'magic tomato' who transforms himself into anything you want to make an exciting, and often personal story.

My grand son's current favourite is the Hungry Caterpillar, he loves putting his little finger through the holes and trying to count.

Loved reading Roald Dahl books. They always seemed to make them laugh at some of the funny things that happened in the stories. Also Dr Seuss books were great when they were very young. Green Eggs and Ham was my sons favourite one and he memorized it and now reads it to his 3 year old son. He also has quite a few of these books that his son enjoys.

I don't have a favourite - it's more important to read what my grandchildren enjoy and that is easily determined by how attentive they are to what is being read.

For me, with daughters and granddaughters, it has to be Peepo! by Allan Ahlberg. I always felt it encouraged interactivity and felt like a experience we could both enjoy. Must be nearly forty years old by now.