book we are reading/have read to ower children

[oddpod]

i am just wondering what you lot are reading/have read to your kids.
i have 2 boys Kai 7,  brad 11 and love reading to them, particularly classics i enjoyed having read to me (back in the old days).

so, recently i have read

the hobbit
 over all this went down well, my youngest loved it thow his big brother(poster boy for the instant gratification generation) found it a littel too slow in parts

the Narnia books
they both relay enjoyed the first book the magicians nephew it had a good anuf pace for brad and enough weird stuff for Kai.
they opted to skip the  lion the witch and wardrobe as they had just Sean the film(the Foley of youth:( ).
A horse and his boy flopped with them both for some reason ,possibly they had trouble folowing all the long foreign names.

the seres of unfortunate events
up to number.......6 i think
they are going down really  well good pace and plenty of weird

[Holden]

I enjoyed reading the Chronicles of Narnia to my daughter. The Horse and His Boy was probably my least favorite of the series, but I still enjoyed it. I just think that idea was done better in book four of Gulliver's Travels by Swift. My favorite book in the Narnia series is The Silver Chair.

[wherethewild]

Does it count that I just bought three Dr Suess books and read them to my german husband? He liked them btw

[oddpod]

lol
i recon that countes

what flavor of sifi/fantasy do you think dr suess counts as? ryme-punk maby.

green eggs and ham was farly instremental in me not being totaly iliterate.

[Anarkey]

i am just wondering what you lot are reading/have read to your kids.
i have 2 boys Kai 7,  brad 11 and love reading to them, particularly classics i enjoyed having read to me (back in the old days).

My husband is currently reading the Bunnicula books to our daughter.  I think those are meant to be mysteries (he has fond memories of them, but apparently I missed them somehow).

Prior to that we were re-reading the Narnia books, which my daughter loves.  We'd made it through The Silver Chair before I decided it was my husband's turn to read for a few nights.

We've also read her several of the Diana Wynne Jones Chrestomanci books, which I seize any opportunity to re-read.  Also recently read: Ursula K. Le Guin's Catwings series.

She's enjoyed the first and second Harry Potter books when we read them to her last year (we don't think she's quite ready for the rest).  She liked Alice in Wonderland when I read it to her over winter.  She often requests a re-read on the Spiderwick chronicles.  Those are surprisingly well-written, and I think it won't be long before she can read them to herself.  They are far less painful to read than the dreaded Magic Tree House books, which she seems to pick up at the library pretty frequently for us to read to her.  We also regularly read her fairy tales and Aesop's fables.

My husband read her the 1300 page Bone tome this past Spring, and in the last two weeks she's started reading it again by herself.  It helps that she knows the plot, and that it has pictures.  Personally, I think she just likes the chance to say "stupid, stupid rat creatures" aloud, since stupid is one of those words we restrict the usage of at our house.

She can read both "The Wolves in the Walls" and "The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish" to herself, but she asks us to read them to her pretty often anyway.  And we do.  You know how it is.  You should see her expression when I ask her to show me "her innocent little girl face".  She has her own pig puppet.  I can't wait for her to be ready for Coraline, which she isn't yet, not quite.

In short, all the typical stuff.

[jrderego]

I read Marc Cerasini's "Godzilla 2000" novel to Ian last summer, he's requested it again this summer. I also read through just about all of Robert Howard's original Conan stories with him. I've recently started reading Edgar Allan Poe shorts (Cask of Amontillado and The Eight Chained Orang-Utangs) and some of his weirder poems too.

Ian loves "The Bells".

We also read through all the articles in his G-Fan magazines (even the bone dry ones about monster suit design or long interviews with toy importers), and he reads to me from his Highlights for Children magazine.

We also read all 18 of the free Spider Man comics that shipped in our Sunday paper and I've started slowly filtering some of my ancient comics collection to him.

Meg is two, so I usually read her the collection of little Caillou books she has and loves. I don't know if any of you are familiar with Caillou, it's a Canadian cartoon about a 4-year old boy and the stuff he learns on a daily basis. I generally dislike them, but there is one book called "Caillou Learns He's Getting Older" which introduces the idea of death to toddlers that is so hilariously inappropriate and sad I can't even read it with a straight face. Both Cindy and I refer to the book as "Caillou Learns He's Going To Die!".  But I have to read the Caillou Gets Chicken Pox and Caillous Sends a Letter five or six times a day.