Do you remember your favourite bedtime story as a child? ?

I loved Brer Rabbit,as did my 2 sons.

Given to me by my father, the Jungle book, they are dated 1908 and 1913, and I loved them being read to me - they have pictures which is so lovely - my dad did the voices - I still have the books and they are one of my prized possessions.

Never had a bedtime story read to me, but my children's favourite was Peace at Last, a lovely little story about a bear trying to get to sleep in his noisy house.

I fondly remember dad would always recite bedtime stories to me when I was a child.

My sister and I shared a bedroom and Mum always read us a bedtime story. Our favourite was the 'Heffalump' chapter from Winnie-the-Pooh, in particular the bit where Pooh says "Help, help, a horrible heffalump" then repeats it getting the words mixed up. Our poor Mum had to read it again and again! Eventually she made a rule that we had to have a different story every other night.
We had a little brightly coloured bookcase/cabinet between our beds, with lots of books, especially Enid Blyton, that mostly came from jumble sales. We also had a Noddy alarm clock.
Before going to sleep we always sang the last verse of 'Away in a manger' as a vesper. ('Be near me Lord Jesus...')

Oh I completely forgot. My Dad read a book to me and my sister - The Wind on the Moon, by Eric Linklater, a fantasy tale, involving two sisters with whom my sister and I identified. I don't think anyone else has ever heard of it. It won the Carnegie medal in 1944, so my Dad must have bought it when it was first published.

We didn't live in the sort of family where children were read to and tucked into bed at night, but by the age of four I was regularly making up stories to tell to my sister and brothers at bedtime. I did it for years and my siblings always believed I would grow up to be a writer.

My own children always had a bedtime story - right up until when they left primary school. They are all avid readers except for the youngest who prefers audio books and they all read bedtime stories to their children.

I loved Charlottes web as a child - and have my childhood copy complete with 'this book belongs to ........' in the preface.

I had all Alison Uttley's 'Little Grey Rabbit' books. First my mum read them to me, until I learnt to read myself. Later I progressed through the many Enid Blyton series. I'm glad we had real books then, not screens!

No but I loved reading to myself, Narnia, Anne of Green and so many more!

I loved reading the Hobbit, and had wonderful imaginary thoughts of the Hobbit hole, the how the dwarfs looked, how ghastly Gollum would look and the dragon - I read this book over and over.
Before this up until the age of 7 or 8 I read books by Roald Dahl, the Witches being a favourite.

I always liked being read the newspaper comic strips. Short enough that it happened every night no matter how busy my parents were.

My favourite was dear zoo. Love books with flaps

I loved the Brer Rabbit stories. I don't know if they still print them any more, I remember some of them being a bit.... not PC.

I only remember mum reading to me from a big book of bedtime stories, loved them all but I think it was the attention at quiet time that was soothing rather than the stories being read.

Noddy

My Mum read Enid Blyton books to me all the time - I loved The Magic Faraway Tree.

I loved to read myself and loved Enid Blyton's Secret Seven books.

I don’t remember being read bedtime stories as a child. However, as soon as I learnt how, I used to enjoy reading under the covers using the light from the electric blanket control. No wonder my eyesight is so bad!
My favourite book was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but I was a voracious reader and would read anything.

Black Beauty - I loved the story - read it again and again as a child. Plus Heidi. I love books and reading and have tried to instil a love of reading in my grandchildren. Sadly in these days of electronic devices it has proved quite difficult. However my husband and I have frequently taken all the grandchildren on holidays on our own to our seaside house. Then we had magic nights with The Faraway Tree and The Wishing Chair read on the bed to 4 grandchildren by their grandfather whilst I cooked dinner. We were not allowed to miss an instalment. My goodness the children loved those books. Why this "woke" generation have villified Enid Blyton so much I will never understand. Children loved her stories! My grandchildren have said they want our books for their children!

I can't remember anyone else ever reading to me, but my mum said I started reading myself very young and anything by Enid Blyton are the earliest bedtime stories I can recall reading - I used to sit up in bed and could easily read a book in one sitting - I'd beg for books for birthday & Christmas presents and was lucky that the local library was only a few streets away and one of the places I was allowed to go - could check out about half a dozen books each time and I was in there several times most weeks, loved it.

No matter what books mum tried to read to me at bedtime, I would only listen to one. It was about beavers building a damn and I was quite happy to go to sleep once mum had read it. Even now if I see a programme about Beavers I'm fascinated.

I remember my mother reading to me pre school Alison Utley I often chose her books when we went to the library. My father listened to our reading rather than read to us. I pretty much learnt to read as soon as I went into school aged 4 and 3/4 and then I read to myself, all the time. Starting with Noddy, The Magic Faraway Tree, then all the other Enids. Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, What Katy Did, Heidi, Wind in the Willows and my absolute favourite The Water Babies.

The secret garden

The tree that sat down by Beverly Nichols