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• 1 Katie B. // Dec 19, 2008 at 5:35 pm

  As a child, I loved hearing the stories from the Chronicles of Narnia series.

• 2 Rose C. // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:20 pm

  I loved fairy tales! A favorite of mine was Snow White and Rose Red.

• 3 smile784 // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:38 pm

  I loved Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” :)

• 4 tarryn // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:42 pm

  My absolute favourite was Enid Blyton’s “The Magic Faraway Tree”.

• 5 lcoatti // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:44 pm

  Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown was a soothing way to end the day as a little girl…

  I discovered her companion “My World” as a parent and now I read both stories to my little ones at night…

• 6 Merrie // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:45 pm

  I really loved “The Pokey Little Puppy.” Those little Golden Books brought so many stories to life.

• 7 dalexander // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:45 pm

  One of my favorite books as a child was “Hop on Pop” - because my Dad (who longed to be called Pop but was disappointed because I never really used that term much) let me act out the book again and again. Hop on Pop literally came to life in our house!

• 8 yoyology // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:48 pm

  My father read stories to me at bedtime all through my childhood. I have particular memories of all the great descriptions of meals in the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, especially Farmer Boy. We didn’t stop doing this until I was in high school. By then, he was reading Steinbeck and Kafka. “The Penal Colony” was not exactly cozy bedtime reading! It was a wonderful thing, and will always be one of my best memories of my dad.

• 9 Patsy // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:48 pm

  My children loved the Dr. Seuss story, Marvin K. Mooney will you please go now!

• 10 kkerstetter // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:48 pm

  Green Eggs and Ham - I loved the silliness and the rhymes

• 11 Jan // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:50 pm

  My children loved the book “Indian in the Cupboard”, which I began reading to them at an early age…this helped them transition from picture books to chapter books.

• 12 donnanic // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:53 pm

  One of my favorite memories is of my husband reading the Night Before Christmas to our daughter. They would both cuddle together in the bed as Nick read the story and did sound effects of the reindeer on the roof.

• 13 ssjohnson17 // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:58 pm

  My son loved ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. After reading it, I always had to go to the window and tell the big bad wolf to go away so he could go to sleep. He’s 19 now and I miss those days!

• 14 alisonnelligan // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:58 pm

  My sister gave us Pat the Bunny when my son was born, and the book is literally worn out. What a delight.

• 15 RonnyV // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:58 pm

  I always loved “Where The Wild Things Are.” There was something about that book that made my imagination run wild as a child. I just heard they are releasing a movie based on the book this October!

• 16 LL332 // Dec 19, 2008 at 6:59 pm

  Calvin and Hobbes - any collection. Definitely my favorite bed time story to read as a kid.

• 17 Tracy // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:02 pm

  We always received a book for Christmas when I was a child. One of my first books (and one I can still recite by heart) was Dr. Seuss’s ABC Book. I memorized it and amazed everyone at how well I could read!

• 18 dchesterton // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:08 pm

  My favorite story as a child was the Velveteen Rabbit. Now I read it to my son!

• 19 acnreader // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:09 pm

  My favorite bedtime story growing up was “Good Night Moon.”

• 20 eritchie0001 // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:11 pm

  As a child I enjoyed many books, the Little House books,The Wizard of Oz, and the babysitters club series just to name a few. Now I enjoy reading Goodnight Moon, and Is your Momma a Llama, and Brown Bear, What do you see?, to my son Kaleb.

• 21 mark.florido // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:14 pm

  My favorite BedTime story was “The Phantom Tollbooth” sooo good.

• 22 AmyWright // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:14 pm

  My first bedtime stories were from “A Child’s Garden of Verses.” My mother and I memorized many of the poems and I’ve given this book to each of the children in our family on their birthdays.

• 23 lauraglu // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:16 pm

  I loved hearing the stories in http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Myths-Read-Aloud-Educational/dp/0517588374/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229728559&sr=1-5 from my mom!

• 24 ms_delta_blues // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:29 pm

  One of my favorite bed-time read aloud memories is the Night Before Christmas. What better time and place than the night before Christmas in bed and pajama-ed up to hear mom read the whole story again making sleep for a five year old near impossible. I still remember laying there envisioning the starry night sky with Santa and his reindeer flying past my house. A great bed-time read!

• 25 evergleam2 // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:31 pm

  I absolutely love books. My favorite bedtime stories were by Syd Hoff. I loved Danny and the Dinosaur and Sammy the Seal. I also loved The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

• 26 bookwormgirl // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:36 pm

  I love books and unfortunately, I like to read the same ones over and over. Two of my faves were The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Prince Bertram the Bad. I can still remember Prince Bertram with that slingshot!

  Oh, he was terrible.

• 27 cutenfun6 // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:38 pm

  My boys love reading. We read whatever book they want to read for bedtime. We are blessed to be able to have books for them to choose from. They both love Where The Wild Things Are and anything Dr. Suess……try them…..try them you will see…..(Green Eggs and Ham). My wish for this Christmas is that all children could have a book to call their own :)

• 28 Sue Brash // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:51 pm

  Back in the late 1940’s, I only remember the classic Mother Goose collection being read to me (plus Bible stories.) Our first child became attached to Winnie the Pooh stories. And Go, Dog, Go became a family favorite as all 3 children & 2 adults enjoyed asking each other “Do you like my hat?”

• 29 olivias // Dec 19, 2008 at 7:59 pm

  One of the favorite stories I read to my children were nursery rhymes over and over as they could anticipate and read along with me. I would sometimes intentionally skip a line or a page and it was quickly pointed out to me that I missed a line or skipped a page :-) But, their other favorites and mine too were “Where the Wild Things Are”, “Goodnight Moon”, and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”.

• 30 mogul // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  My favorite to read aloud was “Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs”.

• 31 Cyn_in_DC // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:29 pm

  I remember spending a lot of time with my friend Winnie the Pooh and I read When We Were Very Young repeatedly!

• 32 annbo1 // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:29 pm

  My favorite story was “Flat Stanley”. But to this day I still cannot sleep with a bulletin board above my bed!

• 33 reekibrew // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:30 pm

  My favorites were always “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” and “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.”

• 34 Lisa43 // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:34 pm

  As an only child growing up, I turned to books for companionship. As a result, I am an avid reader to this day. As an adult, I find that two of my favorite reads as a child have encouraged my son’s love of reading. One of my favorites was the Misty of Chincoteague series. I enjoyed it so much that I shared it with my son when he was young. We ended up vacationing in southern Ocean City in order to visit Chincoteague and Assateague. To this day, our family vacations take place overlooking Assateague so we can visit the ponies.

  My second most memorable book as a child was Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison. My son loved the book as well so we scheduled a wonderful vacation to New York’s Letchworth State Park to visit her reconstructed longhouse and grave. I firmly believe the quote from the movie You’ve Got Mail “You are what you read.”

• 35 barbara41 // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:38 pm

  When my brother & I were 3 and 4 respectively our favorite books were A Child’s Garden of Verse and Mother Goose. Then we discovered Black Beauty and a life-long love of books began.

• 36 howen // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:48 pm

  I remember my Mom reading my sister and me the story “The Little Match Girl” from a collection of Hans Christian Andersen stories. Even though it would make us cry every time we heard it, we would still beg my Mom to read it to us.

  “Where the Wild Things Are” was another special one (and still is).

• 37 wendy the reader // Dec 19, 2008 at 8:58 pm

  My favorite book was “Where the Wild Things Are”…I loved it because I was the only girl with three wild brothers…I wanted to be Max and be just as wild…I loved the pictures as well as the words…
  I also checked out “The Red Ballon” almost every week…

• 38 shaun // Dec 19, 2008 at 9:06 pm

  I had SO many favorites… my mom is a teacher and so she read to us very early. She said I started “reading” when I was three. (I had simply memorized the story.) One of my favorites was called something like, “Please Mr. Elephant, Don’t Sneeze”… I also like (still!) “The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig”. I read every single Nancy Drew book and I still have a collection of them. Lately I have been wanting to re-read A Wrinkle in Time.

• 39 jbladd // Dec 19, 2008 at 9:08 pm

  A favorite in our house is Curious George. His antics make us laugh every time!

• 40 Katrina B // Dec 19, 2008 at 9:18 pm

  My dad always made up stories for me and my sisters. There was usually a starting point for the stories that he would then somehow adapt to include three little girls. Two of my favorite stories were adapted from the classic The Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Little Pigs. We girls had a lot of different adventures thanks to my dad. He continues to do the same for his grandchildren today.

• 41 mkendall // Dec 19, 2008 at 9:25 pm

  One of our household’s favorite books is “Where the Wild Things Are,” by Maurice Sandak. The creature are marvelous.

• 42 cgrogers1 // Dec 19, 2008 at 9:35 pm

  I loved “Are You My Mother?” as a child. I loved my Dad reading to me every night and as I began to read I would hide a flashlight under my blankets for extra reading. My children have loved “Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you See?” and “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom”

• 43 sboland // Dec 19, 2008 at 9:35 pm

  I have always loved reading. When I was young, I remember reading book such as, Socks for Supper. As I got older, I would try to encourage this same love of reading with my sister by reading her many different kinds of books in the hopes of enticing her to enjoy the story. One day soon, I hope to be an English teacher so that I can nurture this same love of books in my students.

• 44 littletoad // Dec 19, 2008 at 9:48 pm

  When my adult sons were growing up, I used to read The Polar Express (by Chris Van Allsburg) to them every Christmas Eve. The Biblical Christmas story and the Night Before Christmas were also read, but The Polar Express was saved for bedtime. It was a special part of Christmas.
  Also, they each had a favorite book that they would ask me to read over and over. One was Drummer Hoff. The other was Tikki Tikki Tembo.
  My favorite books growing up always included some kind of animal such as Walter Brooks Freddie the Pig, Walter Farley horse stories or Atwater’s Mr Popper’s Penguins. Reading is still a vital part of my life. I’ve spent the last 33 years working in libraries all over the country!

• 45 bladd // Dec 19, 2008 at 9:53 pm

  As a child, I remember a hardbound Disney collection of stories that I cherished. I also loved being read-aloud classics such as Charlotte’s Web and Black Beauty. Today, I share books with my son and make bedtime stories an important part of our day.

• 46 doodah // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:00 pm

  My mom read poetry to me:
  “The Children’s Hour”
  “Winken, Blinken, and Nod”
  “The Walrus and the Carpenter”
  She read at naptime and out under the oak tree on a quilt in summer. That was before the days of television, and imaginations were alive.

• 47 bethie // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:03 pm

  One of my favorite memories is my Dad reading Dr. Seuss to me as a child. He delighted in the word play and it developed my love of words and reading. Our special book was “Scrambled Eggs Super de Booper special-deluxe a la Pete D. Hooper”

• 48 bstuck // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  My mom loved to read The Runaway Bunny to me. She would say that the mommy bunny would always find the little bunny to love, no matter where he went. This was comforting to me when I was little because it reminded me that I would never be alone, even if I was lost. Now, as a teacher, I love reading stories to my students. I get really involved and act them out - it’s great fun for me and they are almost mesmerized by the story!

• 49 bdamon // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:26 pm

  My kids used to love “Two Cool Cows”. We would read it almost every night. I lost the original copy that I had but have recently gotten another copy from EBAY!!! Can’t wait for the kids to come home so we can read it with their much younger brother and sister!

• 50 jleary // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:31 pm

  I’ll never forget reading “Goodnight Moon” to our children. I get a bit misty remembering, night after night, reading that as our last story before lights out. I knew it so well, page by page, that if I worked late, my husband could turn the pages for my daughter while I read the story to her over the phone by memory.

• 51 adamides // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:32 pm

  I remember snuggling up in my parent’s giant bed with my mom and she would read in the most beautiful voice every book I brought in the room until I would fall asleep.

• 52 mom3 // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:36 pm

  Each of my children had their own favorite. My son’s was “Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel”. He wanted to hear that over and over. With Jen, it was “Goodnight Moon” which she knew by heart and Emily loved “Winnie the Pooh”.

• 53 djrob // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:46 pm

  I had a number of Little Golden Books as a child. I was always torn between wanting to hear Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Cinderella!

• 54 shopper-c // Dec 19, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  I remember my grandfather telling us stories that reminded us of Hans Christian Anderson.

• 55 redfizz // Dec 19, 2008 at 11:00 pm

  I love books..always have. I remember my parents always reading to me. Some of my favorites were all the Dr. Seuss books (dad made green eggs & ham for breakfast when I could read it on my own!) and the Lonely Doll books by Dare Wright. Now my son has the same love of books that I have! He brings me different books all the time, but when he was very young one of his favorites was The Napping House. In fact, I had to memorize it because I could get him to fall asleep in the car if I recited it to him!! I hope he always has this love!

• 56 Darth Vader // Dec 19, 2008 at 11:18 pm

  The first book I remember reading was Silly Tilly Witch, but I also loved anything with dragons or magic in it.

• 57 texasbooklover // Dec 20, 2008 at 12:16 am

  I don’t remember the titles of my first books but I certainly enjoyed the Golden Books. Later, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett was a special favorite and a dear friend gave me a copy for Christmas a couple of years ago. Time hasn’t erased the magic - the story is as lovely now as it was in my childhood! Three cheers for Sarah Crewe, who teaches that a real princess is not defined by fame, fortune or material trappings.

• 58 ao23 // Dec 20, 2008 at 12:20 am

  We owned a well-loved copy of Horton Hears a Who. Who needs Green Eggs and Ham when you have Horton :)

• 59 jackpot // Dec 20, 2008 at 1:16 am

  My favorite book that I first remember reading by myself was Harold and the Purple Crayon. I wanted a purple crayon of my own. Later I adored all the Nancy Drew, Bobbsey Twins and Grimms Fairy Tails, although they scared me.

• 60 bonniebluedenim // Dec 20, 2008 at 1:47 am

  I loved a book called Rosie Nose, about a mommy polar bear and her baby. Also the Bobbsey Twins. And I enjoyed reading Hank the Cowdog to my students. Pippi Longstockings was another favorite. Gosh, the list is endless.

• 61 Lorrett // Dec 20, 2008 at 2:14 am

  My mother used to read to me at bedtime from Grimm’s Fairy Tales. She would let me look at the pages and point at the words so I could follow along. When she started teaching me to sound out words (about age 3) she stopped pointing. I remember how much fun it was to recognize a word — I was reading too!

• 62 pastmoment // Dec 20, 2008 at 2:53 am

  Dr Seuss was my hero. I loved the rhymes, the sympathetic characters who always won in the end. I loved A Fish Out of Water and Put Me In the Zoo.

• 63 rs8642 // Dec 20, 2008 at 5:01 am

  When my oldes child was young we bought one of those cheap Golden books at the grocery store. It was called Scuffy the Tugboat. We read that story to all 3 of our children and, even though they had bigger, fancier and more expensive books, they asked us to read “Scuffy” over and over. It’s been over 18 years since I read that book and I still treasure the memories.

• 64 pbgv23 // Dec 20, 2008 at 5:30 am

  The first book I remember was Watty Piper’s The Little Engine That Could. My relatives all loved to read to my sister and me, but my favorite memory is of my Uncle Johnny teasing us by making up totally ridiculous versions of the story. We would get very indignant and tell him what the story really was. Through these boisterous bedtime tales we learned not only to read for ourselves - to prove we knew when he was making it up - but to make up our own silly stories.

• 65 winddancer65 // Dec 20, 2008 at 5:30 am

  My daughter loved to be read bedtime stories . I think her favorite was Goodnight Moon.

• 66 SClark // Dec 20, 2008 at 6:54 am

  My children enjoyed “Where The Wild Things Are” many nights. Reading together left all of us with wonderful memories.

• 67 deeskid // Dec 20, 2008 at 8:00 am

  My niece is 19 months old and one of the first books she listened and responded to was Mo Willems “Pigeon Likes Things That Go”. When we got to the airplane page, she would flap flap flap just like the pigeon. It’s still one of her favorites!

• 68 librainiac // Dec 20, 2008 at 8:35 am

  I loved Richard Scary.

• 69 A_Eaton // Dec 20, 2008 at 8:55 am

  My favorite was something called “A Cowboy and his Friend” by Joan Walsh Anglund. I still have the book and read it with both my boys.

• 70 Ritared // Dec 20, 2008 at 9:00 am

  I could not read “Goodnight Moon” to my boys enough. They loved it.

• 71 jillreader // Dec 20, 2008 at 10:40 am

  I still remember Eloise as my first book to love, love, love! (as Eloise would say)

• 72 kings664 // Dec 20, 2008 at 10:51 am

  Some of my best memories with my children were the bedtime readings of “Big Dog, Little Dog” and “Cinderella.”

• 73 pstuckart // Dec 20, 2008 at 11:13 am

  My favorite bedtime story book is “Good Night, Moon” — it’s gotten better the older I get!

• 74 marilynlibrarian // Dec 20, 2008 at 11:31 am

  Some of my earliest memories are of my Mom reading bedtime stories to me and my younger siblings. My favorites were James Thurber’s “Many Moons” and all of A.A. Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh” stories. As a mom myself, I carried on the bedtime story tradition with my own two daughters, sharing my favorites and finding new favorites with them.

• 75 sqclds // Dec 20, 2008 at 11:33 am

  I loved making my father read “Fox in Socks” by Dr. Seuss. I would choose that book because I was very funny to me to listen to him stumble an struggle through the tongue twisters. Now it’s one of my children’s favorite books.

• 76 NancyG // Dec 20, 2008 at 11:34 am

  As an avid childhood reader, I also enjoyed Nancy Drew. My kids’ favorites included Love you Forever, by Robert Munsch, everything by Eric Carle, and my son and husband especially loved reading “Bill and Pete” by Tomie De Paolo. I have read children’s books to my rotary club for fellowship time during the holiday season - including “The Giving Tree” and “Tusk Tusk” by David McKee”. All three children were early readers and enjoy reading as adults and our first grandchild is read to frequently as a baby and loves books already.

• 77 shirley // Dec 20, 2008 at 11:52 am

  My earliest bedtime memory was my mother reading to my brother and me all the Beatrice Potter animal books. I especially liked the squirrel. As a mom, I loved reading the Wizard Of Oz series of books to my three children. We never knew there were so many creative creatures in Oz nor that there were so many books in the series. Of course we had fun reading about the adventures of Curious George, especially at the ice cream shop and Froggy’s First Snow. He is such a funny character!

• 78 star // Dec 20, 2008 at 12:00 pm

  My kids love the “Mommy’s Love” book by Nikki Nia. The story is about 5 senses and Mommy’s love! It’s a simple, lovely book. Kids enjoy singing it along with me and by the last page that says “…and Mommy loves you so much” they have a smile on their face & close their eyes.

• 79 kmcintyre // Dec 20, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  My children’s favorite bedtime book was a collection of Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tales. They truly enjoyed listening to each story. As they grew older we would discuss the moral of each story. I believe that they have learned a great deal from reading books and understanding the message within them. Another favorite author is Angela Johnson who writes wonderful childrens books and always includes a message in her stories. One of our favorite books by Angela Johnson is a book about a boy who loves the idea of flying and joins the Tuskegee Airmen in their battles of WWII called “Wind Flyers”. My 16 year old son read her book called “First Part Last” which is about a teenage boy who becomes a father and the struggles that he endures. My son learned what a burden it can be to be a parent at such a young age. This is a must read for the youth of today.

• 80 vegastaps // Dec 20, 2008 at 12:50 pm

  As a child my favorite bedtime story was a Disney version of the tale Stone Soup. It was called Button Soup and it was with Daisy Duck using a button to make soup. My dad would read that book to me every night. He didn’t mind reading it over and over again. He always read stories to me. I remember some of my other favorites being the Golden Books. I still have all of them. I loved Dr. Seuss and of course the classic fairy tale books. I am a teacher now and I love to read to my students. I read all of these stories and many “newer” children’s books.

• 81 lgbass250 // Dec 20, 2008 at 12:53 pm

  One of my favorite bedtime stories was PINOCCHIO. I still have the book my mother
  used to read to me–the 1950 Platt & Munk edition with illustrations by Tony Sarg.
  Most of the drawings were in sepia but now and then, at a climactic turn in the story,
  there would be a full color illustration — and I would wait for those
  magical and glorious moments. I even remember the lines of dialogue
  that went with them. For example, “There are lies that have short legs and
  lies that have long noses. Your lie happens to be one of those that
  have long noses…” As a mother,I followed in my own mother’s footsteps
  and read the very same version of PINOCCHIO
  to my sons.

• 82 SDaly // Dec 20, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  One of my favorite books growing up was, Laura Charlotte by Kathryn O. Galbraith. I also loved Stuart Little and the Wind in the Willows, which my grandmother use to read to me.

• 83 celebratestx // Dec 20, 2008 at 2:00 pm

  My favorite book when I was about 3 was “Bears in the Night”… the Berenstein Bears. I remember being curled up with my Dad and even though I had memorized the story, I still loved so much to hear him read it. Eventually, I learned how to read (at a very early age) simply from the joy of having my parents read to me and then wanting to read back to them. Today, I enjoy buying my favorite classic children’s books for my “nieces” and “nephews” to continue the tradition. There’s simply nothing better than a good bedtime story!

• 84 mkjohns // Dec 20, 2008 at 2:05 pm

  A favorite growing up was Ogden Nash’s Tale of Custard the Dragon. My father read it to me (actually, he recited it from memory) with lots of expression and flouishes. While our copy was within a collection of Nash verses, I’ve seen the story in a picture book format too.

• 85 jenrcui // Dec 20, 2008 at 2:26 pm

  I loved Charlotte’s Web. I remember sleeping over at my aunty’s and she would read it to me before bed and do all the voices. I especially loved the goose!

• 86 samiallen // Dec 20, 2008 at 3:01 pm

  Fairies still are my favorite. My mother is a great story teller. When we were young my sister was into being a cowboy and wanted a set up guns and boots. Her wish was granted but then one day she left them in the yard. When she remembered, there was note in place of her guns, saying that “Mr. Wind had taken her guns since she really didn’t care for them. If she wanted them back she had to promise to keep good care of them.” She ran to my mom, crying that “Mr. Wind” had taken her guns and she was sorry. The next day, under the same tree was another note from “Mr. Wind”, telling her that he returned her things becasue he knew she was good to hear word, just like the cowboys were.
  For me, I woke one morning, after loosing a tooth to find “fairy dust” all over my bed. I was sooo excited, I yelled for my mom. She told me that I must have “rolled over on to the tooth fairy and almost caught her under my body.” We scooped up the fairy dust and put into a little black bag. My mom told me that to “watch the sparkly fairy dust because it was magical and it would disappear”. Sure enough, the next day, my fairy dust was gone.
  That was 30+ years ago and still brings a warm smile and loving memories.

• 87 princekatrina // Dec 20, 2008 at 3:43 pm

  My favorite book to read to children when
  I used to babysit was Green Eggs and Ham
  by Dr. Seuss. I love the repetition and humor
  in that book as well as the great artwork.

• 88 Lisa // Dec 20, 2008 at 3:47 pm

  A bedtime book my family enjoyed was “Kiss Goodnight” by

• 89 Lisa // Dec 20, 2008 at 3:49 pm

  A bedtime book my family enjoyed was “Kiss good night” by Amy Hest. The routine of what a child needs before bedtime, along with the warm, cozy illustrations of this story were part of our bedtime ritual.

• 90 db-s // Dec 20, 2008 at 3:56 pm

  When I was born, my father read to us from ‘The World of Pooh’, as many times as he needed to until we could read it to him! Warm and wonderful. No surprise that, when he asked me (at age 18) to help him name his “lumbering” new boat, I immediately responded: “Heffalump, of course!”

• 91 noone // Dec 20, 2008 at 3:57 pm

  “Where the Wild Thing Are” was my favorite.

• 92 msliblady // Dec 20, 2008 at 4:04 pm

  It is such fun to tell people here in Hannibal MO that I, their Children’s Librarian, have never read THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER! The punch line is “my Mom was an English teacher - she read it to us”! another favorite story came about because our grandmother also read to us. I would fall asleep early and she had to back up the next night. I think my older sister found this frustrating. But falling asleep to a human voice is still very comforting!

• 93 grammadonna // Dec 20, 2008 at 4:35 pm

  I read to my children when they were little and they both now love to read as adults and have carried on the tradition with their children. Some of their favorite stories were GOOD NIGHT MOON, DR. SEUSS’ ABC book, and WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Now I read to my grandchildren anything and everything. They have especially loved IF YOU GIVE A PIG A PARTY. Books are a perfect and appreciated gift with each of them.

• 94 dr.kia.jane.richmond // Dec 20, 2008 at 6:08 pm

  When I was growing up, I read the Little Golden Books - LITTLE RED HEN and THE LITTLE RED CABOOSE (funny that I, a redhead, would love books about things with RED in the title).

  Here’s the website for those and many other books for children. As an English professor, I work with future educators who will teach English Language Arts. As a member of my community, I support literacy by helping to procure donations of books to share with the youth at Teaching Family Homes, an organization that helps troubled children and families. If you haven’t thought about the gift of a book for the holidays, I ask you to do so today. And if you have a little extra, consider donating to an organization that works with children/teens who may need books in their group homes or residental treatment centers.
  Happy Holidays!

• 95 dr.kia.jane.richmond // Dec 20, 2008 at 6:10 pm

  Forgot the website for Little Golden Books- here you go -

  http://www.randomhouse.com/golden/lgb/story.html

  And here’s the web site for Teaching Family Homes of Upper Michigan -

  https://www.teachingfamilyhomes.com/index2.html

• 96 Laura St. Croix // Dec 20, 2008 at 6:30 pm

  As a child I loved books, and my mother said I was rarely seen without one in my hand and I was always bugging my parents and older siblings to read to me. There is something magical about having a story read aloud to you. I still love reading and love to read to young people to spread the pleasure of reading. I hope you get lots of great books donated!

• 97 gellhaus // Dec 20, 2008 at 6:32 pm

  My dad would always read to my sister and I at bedtime. Each birthday and Christmas we would get a new Dr. Seuss book. The best part of bedtime stories to me is just having someone read to you.

• 98 raingirl // Dec 20, 2008 at 6:51 pm

  I’m in love with Winnie the Pooh. Especially the poetry book “When We Were Young”. Very fun and real and artful.

• 99 lsmbks // Dec 20, 2008 at 7:02 pm

  I have a special place for the Frog and Toad series as it was the first books my son bought at his school book fair. His favorite was “Frog and Toad Are Friends”–which we read everynight for quite awhile. Now when a buy a present for a child, I always get a copy of one of the series.

• 100 W3AV3RV33F // Dec 20, 2008 at 8:04 pm

  When I spent time reading to my grandchildren we had many favorites. We liked the Dr. Seuss books and others we enjoyed were “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” by Maya Angelou and “Lafcadio the Lion” by Shel Silverstein.

• 101 t-mac // Dec 20, 2008 at 8:17 pm

  My mom was an elementary school teacher and read to me and my 2 sisters every night and also read us the Sunday “funnies” every week! There were so many books. I never had just one favorite but do remember really enjoying the Dr. Seuss books for young readers, especially “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” because I figured out how to read it myself pretty quickly and “Hop on Pop” because when my dad would come home from a business meeting and my sisters and I would all jump on him and hug him, he would say, “Stop! Don’t hop on Pop.” We loved it!!

• 102 lindsaydgr // Dec 20, 2008 at 8:32 pm

  One of my favorite bedtime stories was “Madeline”. We had a version that was a pop-up book.

• 103 mcbeth2346 // Dec 20, 2008 at 8:39 pm

  What could be better than Charlotte’s Web? “Some Pig”! No matter how many times I heard the story, I still cried when Charlotte died.

  I also had two favorites by a more obscure author: “Rusty” and “Frog” by Col. S. P. Meek. I wrote him a fan letter and we actually struck up a correspondence - what a lovely gift to an 8-year-old girl. :-)

• 104 micro86 // Dec 20, 2008 at 10:03 pm

  My favorite book as a child was Moonraker by Ian Fleming. The chapters are arranged well so that each leaves you in suspense for the next. It’s hard to put down before going to bed.

• 105 tlcatlett // Dec 20, 2008 at 11:16 pm

  My youngest son’s favorite book was Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. All of my children loved Dr. Seuss, all of the Golden Books classics, and Disney stories. In our family we encourage reading to infants from before birth, reading often to all children, and encourage reading skills. My 4 year old granddaughter reads at a 2nd to 3rd grade level. My 5 year old grandson is thrilled to display his sight word skills and my 1 year old grandson is well familiar with books and how they work. He loves to find matching pictures on the pages. The grandchild who is on the way will have books to read under the Christmas tree this year. My mantra is “Knowledge is never a negative.” In my family, a quest for knowledge is uppermost and reading skills are crucial.

• 106 BrowncoatPanda // Dec 20, 2008 at 11:19 pm

  We babysat for my cousins almost once a week for years, and often put them to bed. One of our favorite stories to read aloud to them was Fox in Socks. It’s amazing how good you can get at reading toungue twisters when you read them so regularly! My mom and I would see who could say them fastest.

• 107 gertie // Dec 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

  One of my favorite stories to read to my grandchildren before they go to bed is A Fish Out of Water by Dr. Seuss. M husband and I have one goldfish that the children always want to feed. Now, we all laugh about what might happen if our Little Goldie eats too much!

• 108 Lauren // Dec 21, 2008 at 12:20 am

  I think of my best memories with the longest effects was that of “reading” with my mother children’s books on space. We’d sit on my bed, me in it and her on the side and look at the pictures and the words, sharing our ideas about what was “out there.”

  While I cannot remember any specific titles–and do not, alas, have any of the books– I remember that the books of the mid- to late-1950s were filled with rocket ships and drawings of mysterious planets that had yet to be explored in any but the most rudimentary sense. But those images and the words filled my senses and imagination with passionate dreams of astronomy and a lifelong fascination that still fuels one of my favorite subjects.

• 109 pneumann // Dec 21, 2008 at 12:27 am

  I don’t remember the title, but there was a small book (Golden Book?) I read to my girls about a child asking for a bedtime story. Her mother tells her a story about a small animal who asks its mother for a story when it is not sleepy enough at bedtime. It goes something like ‘Once upon a time there was a little (animal). It was time to go to bed, but the (animal) wasn’t sleepy. And he/she said “Mama, tell me a story!” So the mother says, “Once upon a time….” and it starts over. After many animals have joined the chain, a Mama animal starts the story but the baby has fallen asleep. Then the animals are each named in reverse order, because each of them in turn has fallen asleep. We especially liked the fact that this could be used to include favourite animals or even friends if you wanted to. The illustrations in the book were lots of fun, too.

• 110 cloudery // Dec 21, 2008 at 12:27 am

  I remember vividly the Little Golden books. Especially the Pokey Little Puppy. I loved hearing that story over and over and over again.

• 111 LavenderOcean // Dec 21, 2008 at 12:57 am

  Dr. Seuss books made me very happy as a kid - one favorite remains: And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street. So much to see there!

• 112 ksreader // Dec 21, 2008 at 5:47 am

  I always enjoyed the Little Golden Books. My kids liked the Berenstain Bears and Clifford the Big Red Dog.

• 113 awest05 // Dec 21, 2008 at 6:23 am

  The velveteen rabbit!! over and over again;)

• 114 bschmidt // Dec 21, 2008 at 8:43 am

  I loved when my Dad read to me at night. I remember him reading chapter books and there was one in particular that I loved “Uncle Wiggly.” I have the book and I read it to my children and I look forward to reading it to my grandson!

• 115 mimaestra // Dec 21, 2008 at 10:30 am

  Like the little girl in the photo, we love Maysi too…but in Spanish. We have been reading all of her stories (especially for each holiday) in Spanish since the hopefully-someday-bilingual twins were born. They are readily available here in Mexico, not so sure about wide availability in US but can be ordered online.

• 116 royomcclish // Dec 21, 2008 at 10:37 am

  My two boys favorite story was (they’re older now); Squirrel Nutkin by Beatrice Potter.

  My two girls favorite story is; little one eye, little two eyes, and little three eyes. It’s a fairy tale.

• 117 bwflonesoldier // Dec 21, 2008 at 11:42 am

  I really loved Cat’s Cake, but at Christmas time every year, my mom would read The Little Match Girl. That book always made me cry!

• 118 abby24 // Dec 21, 2008 at 11:45 am

  My favorite story was A Christmas Carol, which my mom used to read to me every Christmas Eve. Now, I read it to my younger brothers the night before Christmas, and it has become there favorite bedtime story too.

• 119 meemsickle // Dec 21, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  My daughter’s favorite is Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney. At Christmas we like Are You Grumpy, Santa? by Greg Spiridellis and Evan Spiridellis.

• 120 polly4 // Dec 21, 2008 at 1:26 pm

  Books have always been a part of my life and I hoped that my children and grandchildren would love them like I do . A couple of my children have caught the “reading bug” They always have a book nearby. And happily have passed this love of reading down to the next generation. Jan Brett books are some of my younger grandchildren’s favorites, and Stephen King my older ones! What a diverse group we all are. Books make your imaginatiom bloom!

• 121 dawna // Dec 21, 2008 at 1:55 pm

  I agree with Merrie…the Little Golden Books are the best! My favorite as a child was “Little Mommy.”

• 122 cbarre1250 // Dec 21, 2008 at 3:08 pm

  First, the assignment: I learned to read The Little Red Hen while recuperating from polio. Somehow I think the hen’s gumption helped me keep working on the rehab exercises.
  But my favorite story of bedtime reading was about 10 years ago when my husband and I were touring the US in our motorhome. A dark and rainy night led me to read to him “In which Piglet is Surrounded by Water” from Winnie the Pooh. That began a tradition for the remainder of the trip that I would read a chapter from Winnie the Pooh or The House at Pooh Corner every night at bedtime. It was amazing how often the story seemed to reflect the activities or moods of the day.

  As a postscript, I’m disappointed there is such low participation on this project. Only 120? Perhaps the “leave a comment” window is too far buried in the page?
  I’ve forwarded the email to a few dozen readers from my e-address book. I hope they have time for a quick addition by Christmas.

• 123 Becci // Dec 21, 2008 at 3:21 pm

  My favorite bedtime story as a child was “The Saggy, Baggy Elephant” because it taught me that we do not have to be like anyone else - we are perfect just as we are :-)

• 124 Brenda // Dec 21, 2008 at 3:24 pm

  When our children were small, our favorites at bedtime were FROG AND TOAD stories by Lobel and THE BERENSTAIN BEARS stories. We have favorite lines from these stories that we still recite to each other!

• 125 barrelhouse bonni // Dec 21, 2008 at 4:13 pm

  “The Little Engine That Could” is a positive story my mom read to me, that I read to my daughter and she is reading to her young ones. “I think I can, I think I can” puffed the little blue engine. I wonder if someone read it to Barack when he was a kid.

• 126 Bannach5 // Dec 21, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  I wasn’t read bedtime stories as a child, but all of my three children love the “You Read To Me, I’ll Read To You” series. We read together and makes bedtime very special.

• 127 angmackey // Dec 21, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  I too loved The Pokey Little Puppy as a child. My 16 mo daughter loves anything by Sandra Boynton. As an elementary teacher, I love reading Kevin Henkes, Kate DiCamillo, & Shel Silverstein. A personal fav is Up North at the Cabin - wonderful word choice!!!

• 128 isoscia // Dec 21, 2008 at 6:55 pm

  The first books I can remember from my childhood were Little Golden Books. My favorite was Pokey Little Puppy.

• 129 MrsHarvey // Dec 21, 2008 at 8:31 pm

  My favorite children’s book was Thumbelina. I always dreamed of actually going there and playing with Thumbelina!

• 130 bookbrain // Dec 21, 2008 at 9:13 pm

  I can still remember following my mother around the house during the day, begging her to read me a story. My favorites included any fairy tale or folk tale, especially Sleeping Beauty, as well as picture books like “Not a Little Monkey,” by Charlotte Zolotow. At bedtime, though, it was my father’s turn to read to me. He made up marvelous stories about giants and blue birds. When he ran out of ideas, he turned to poetry books like “When We Were Very Young” and “Now We Are Six” by A.A. Milne, or novels like “Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame. I always looked forward to my Dad reading a chapter a night. It turned me into a lifelong reader. In fact, now I work in the Children’s Department of a very large bookstore.

• 131 jeanswright // Dec 21, 2008 at 9:20 pm

  “As I Was Standing in the Street,
  As Quiet as Can Be,
  A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up,
  And Tied his Horse to Me.” This was a book of nonsense rhymes my children loved to read together, recite at odd times, and celebrate whimsy. As a teacher, I know we were learning language, phonemic awareness, patterns and rhythms, but at the time, we just knew we were having fun. I am visiting my eldest just now, and the prints I made him from that dog-eared book are proudly posted on his wall.

• 132 marksd // Dec 22, 2008 at 12:23 am

  My little boy loves Goodnight Moon and anything Thomas the Tank Engine!

• 133 mee-mee-jee-jee // Dec 22, 2008 at 1:46 am

  I may be almost 67 years old, and my father has been gone to heaven for the past 7 years, but I still remember him reading to my sisters and myself when we were small. It was at my mother’s insistance that he did so - he being a farmer who worked from dawn to dark - so we often heard stories from Outdoor Life magazine! However, he also read most of the Thornton W. Burgess “animal” stories to us, and these are the stories we have never forgotten hearing in his unique reading style!

• 134 monarte // Dec 22, 2008 at 2:47 am

  I loved reading to my children, and now to my grand daughter. She has loved a book read to her I think since birth. My children had many favorites. My first daughter, had me read Cinderella to her so many times she knew the words on the page by heart before she was two and she recited them as I turned each page. My second daughter always surprised me, with her favorite being a book showing pictures of different animals in Alphabetical order, she loved to point to them and say their names, she would laugh out loud when we got to the “Tasmanian Devil”, we are christians and she thought it funny there was an animal with devil in its name, plus it was a funny picture. My baby Son loved any book that was about a motorized vehicle; goes to show you, boys are different. We had an abundance of books, and my children loved to play a game with them, they lined them up on the floor and pretended if they stepped off of them they would end up in danger!,,,we had so many books they would line them up from the play room ,down the hall to the living room couch and if they made it to the couch they were safe. I love the imagination of a child at play…I’m currently writing and illustrating my on children’s book, I hope it will join the ranks of many children’s favorite book.

• 135 ldeddish // Dec 22, 2008 at 8:26 am

  My favorite book as a small childe was Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and I have read the same book (same copy and everything) to my own children, who love it also. When I was a little older, I read Louisa May Alcott’s Eight Cousins over and over, along with The Secret Garden and The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. My seven year old is currently reading Tales of a Forth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume (brings back memories) and my three year old loves the book Bad Kitty.

• 136 elizak // Dec 22, 2008 at 9:10 am

  My favorite story is Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls. I have always loved those stories about Laura Ingalls living in the woods. I guess I like it because it’s about being back in the olden days.

• 137 MWatters // Dec 22, 2008 at 9:34 am

  The first book I remember as a child was a book with a different bedtime story for each night of the year. It was a favorite for many years.

• 138 jeremya@dwyer-land.win.net // Dec 22, 2008 at 9:45 am

  when we were little the disney movie series where a big hit in our home. We’re talking early 80’s through early 90’s………..everyone knows how many came out during those years……and another thing……they don’t make them like they used too!……
  i can’t beleive I’m 29 and just said that!……
  i thought i would be much older before i dropped that line!………

• 139 jeremya@dwyer-land.win.net // Dec 22, 2008 at 9:48 am

  whoops……forgot to leave mention of a great book growing up…….i mentioned disney movies but then realized this IS A BOOK SITE !!!
  …………….
  we loved the Dr. Suess series growing up….Any and all of them…..
  (maybe this lead to my future career choice of being an artist!!………….)
  thanks doc!

• 140 thaskins // Dec 22, 2008 at 9:53 am

  I always loved the Disney princess stories! I think my favorite was Snow White! One day, my prince will come (and he did!).

• 141 booklover // Dec 22, 2008 at 10:16 am

  Curious George for the 2-7 set and Tintin for the 8-12 year olds were always a huge hit in our home. So hard to pick a favorite. I always had my nose stuck in a book and my daughter falls asleep with a book on her lap!

• 142 mjohnson // Dec 22, 2008 at 10:28 am

  The Very Busy Spider is my grandson’s favorite story for bedtime right now. He’s almost 17 months old and loves for you to read it over and over.

• 143 Lucy // Dec 22, 2008 at 10:52 am

  When my son was very little, I loved reading his two favorite books to him, “I Have a Secret” and “High in the Sky.” He could barely talk, but he would do his best to say the words out loud as I read the familiar stories to him each night. That was 46 years ago, but just writing about those books brings back such lovely memories. I so wish I could find copies of both of those little story books, but I’m sure they’re out of print now.

• 144 YaYaVal // Dec 22, 2008 at 11:16 am

  My favorite books as a child were the Black Stallion series. They were followed closely by the works of Marguerite Henry. What lovely days and nights were spent on the backs of these magical horses! I still keep a copy of these books in my home for occasional browsing and always for sharing.

• 145 cchild // Dec 22, 2008 at 11:48 am

  Our parents took turns reading to us every night. They had very different reading styles. My mother made us laugh till we cried reading the Winnie-the-Pooh Heffalump story. My father never read what was on the page. He made up hilarious - and ironic - tales as he pretended to read from a book.

• 146 astrc98 // Dec 22, 2008 at 11:58 am

  Go Dog Go was my favorite. I now read it to my children.

• 147 kmitchell // Dec 22, 2008 at 12:19 pm

  I had many favorites bedtime books thanks to my mother. Every week, she would squeeze my two younger sisters and younger brother into a stroller and let me help push. Off we’d go to the library. My brother really enjoyed it when his three sisters had to listen while my mom read his “boy” books. As a result we all ended up being avid readers.

• 148 glitterlessgold // Dec 22, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  I always loved The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf, illustrated by Robert Lawson. A classic story of a bull who, rather than butting heads with the other bulls and aspiring to partake in bullfighting (it’s set in Spain), would rather sit under a tree and smell the flowers. Great story! I still need to get myself a copy.

• 149 carolyn // Dec 22, 2008 at 12:51 pm

  I really enjoyed the Little House on the Prairie series. I liked to imagine myself growing up at that time.

• 150 Clare D // Dec 22, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  Paddington Bear books by Michael Bond. I think my mother chose them because she used to love them herself. My brothers and I listened together and then we read them ourselves - so much so that the books eventually fell apart.

• 151 wyagarich // Dec 22, 2008 at 1:09 pm

  My daughter loves Pinkalicious!

• 152 Vasilly // Dec 22, 2008 at 1:28 pm

  My youngest loves Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.

• 153 mollyhoke1019 // Dec 22, 2008 at 1:38 pm

  “james and the giant peach” was a childhood fave of mine

• 154 broddy // Dec 22, 2008 at 2:01 pm

  My favorite book to read to young children before the go to bed is Good Night Moon. After the story is read I will walk around the house and we will say good night to the fish, clock, dogs, etc.. and then get tucked into bed.

• 155 Theresa H. // Dec 22, 2008 at 2:27 pm

  I loved Goodnight Moon when I was younger — I especially liked looking for the mouse on every page. As I got older I had lots of favorites — A Wrinkle in Time, Bridge to Terabithia, the Chronicles of Narnia, The Secret Garden and the list goes on and on…

• 156 Aesah // Dec 22, 2008 at 2:30 pm

  Alice in Wonderland was one of my favorites when I was a kid.

• 157 ljcurtis // Dec 22, 2008 at 2:36 pm

  My father always read from the “Book of Knowledge” - in the center were stories. My favorite story was “The Fisherman and his Wife”. It was a wonderful fantasy story about the sadness that greed can cause. Nobody could do the voices the way my father could! Having lost him this past year at the age of 84- this memory is precious.

• 158 dbaycich // Dec 22, 2008 at 2:38 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was, and still is, Many Moons by James Thurber.

• 159 nichelle71 // Dec 22, 2008 at 2:58 pm

  I don’t remember a favorite book, but I did love the Little Golden Books. I also remember my mom tucking me in reading a story to me before bed. I loved it!

• 160 KyleVM // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:03 pm

  I loved the “Wayside School” series by Louis Sachar and in fact just bought them for my nephew for Christmas.

• 161 oxmoor // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:12 pm

  My mother used to tuck me in with book versions of all the great Disney movies — Jungle Book, Mary Poppins, Winnie the Pooh, Pollyanna and many more. My daughter loves current Disney fare like Hannah Montana and Bolt, and it looks like Bedtime Stories is destined to become a future classic. Thank you Disney and First Book for my wonderful childhood memories and this great literacy project!

• 162 swetta // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:18 pm

  I enjoyed many of the Dr. Seuss books. The most memorable was Green Eggs and Ham. The strange characters are embedded in my mind forever. I chuckle evertime I think of one of those books.

• 163 BethB // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:21 pm

  I loved reading Encyclopedia Brown books when I was little. Now I’ve started my 8-year-old great-nephew on the series and he’s hooked too!

• 164 yesjonbrown // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:21 pm

  I always like “The Sleep Book” by Dr. Seuss. I was always ready for bed after having that read to me

• 165 Heather // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:23 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was “Little Black, a Pony” by Walter Farley, author of the Black Stallion series. My mom says I pestered her constantly to read the book, and I’m sure that’s where I got my lifelong love of horses. When I was old enough read on my own, horse stories were always my favorites, and I read and re-read the Black Stallion series. But for my own kids, the book we wore out and had to keep buying over and over was Goodnight Moon.

• 166 Kristie Harnisch // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:25 pm

  Disney classics were always my favorite to be read to before bed. But as a pre-teen my favorite reads were anything written by Judy Bloom & The Little House on the Prairie series. We read to our kids every night and I’d have to say the all time favorite that they like to hear is Good Night Moon while hunting for the mouse!

• 167 sugarsnap // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:29 pm

  My dad used to read “Bedtime Hugs for Little Ones” to me each night. The illustrator hid a mouse on every page so it was always fun to try and find where the mouse was hiding while I listened to my dad read the stories.

• 168 kthomas // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:31 pm

  Aesop’s fables, “How to Eat Fried Worms” by Thomas Rockwell, and the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books.

• 169 gurlbee // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:36 pm

  I used to love the Frog and Toad stories and Sylvester and the magic pebble!

• 170 Rachz // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:37 pm

  My kids love to hear me read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish … they always like laughing at mom getting tongue tied!

• 171 sarahfran // Dec 22, 2008 at 3:56 pm

  I can remember my great-grandmother reading me the Little House on the Prairie books. Some of my favorite childhood memories are of spending time with her.

• 172 Courtney // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:04 pm

  I always had my Mom read to me Just For You. She would read that book to me whenever I asked, which happened to be several times a day! Climbing on my Mom’s lap and reading along with her is one of my most distinct and favorite memories from childhood.

• 173 psomom // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:34 pm

  LOVED reading “Goodnight Moon” to my son every night - got to the point we didn’t need the book, and just “read” it together to each other. <3

• 174 neddotcom // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:36 pm

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• 175 amoosemama // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:38 pm

  I love reading to my five year old son. He is just learning to read himself and together we read two books every night. He reads one to me and I read one to him. He’s starting on chapter books without pictures already–he loves using a bookmark!

• 176 shellerae // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:39 pm

  I’ll love you forever! The perfect Mom and Son book!

• 177 Greg Huntoon // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:39 pm

  I was always in love with Goodnight, Moon, but as far as kid’s books go…you can’t beat anything by Shel Silverstein. “Where the Sidewalk Ends” is one of the funniest books ever written.

• 178 lfamous // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:39 pm

  My kids (7,6,4) love Moe Willems-”Knuffle Bunny” and “Knuffle Bunny, Too” and “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus” but for bedtime, his best is “Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late.”

  When they were a little younger, they loved “Going to Sleep on the Farm.”

• 179 michaeljturner // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:41 pm

  My mom read to us all the time as kids… I remember Judy Bloom, the Chronicles of Narnia and lots of Shel Silverstein growing up. Now I read to my son, and hope he’ll pick up a love of books like I did.

• 180 kittencouture // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:43 pm

  I loved The Phantom Tollbooth! I remember reading an excerpt of it in elementary class and then going to the library to read the whole thing. I must have read that book almost every summer - I was obsessed. Of course I was very into Nancy Drew and The Baby Sitters Club as well!

• 181 moire // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  I used to love good old fairy tales, like Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty. But my favorite stories were the ones made up by my great-grandmother, who recently passed away.

• 182 MerryB // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  My favorites were Dr. Seuss including Are you My Mother and Go Dog Go.

• 183 Jeff S. // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:45 pm

  As an adult, my favorite bedtime story is The Princess Bride. Not only as a story about Westley and Buttercup, but as the story of a father attempting to connect to his son and, vicariously, his own father. And The Thief of Always. As a kid, I buried my nose in Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

• 184 jdgreenberg // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:46 pm

  While I have no memory of this, my mom and dad assure me that they used to read to me all the time, mostly Golden Books. My first recollections of books that I enjoyed reading were Dr. Seuss, but my first all-time favorite book to read was “A Wrinkle in Time.”

• 185 trinitea // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:50 pm

  As a smaller child, I loved “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” you’ll have to give it a glass of milk. :)
  Once I got a bit older, I would devour any Asterix book and Tintin book. I loved Captain Haddock “Blisterin’ Barnacles!” and Obelix “These Romans are crazy!” I still do actually, I’m using them to learn other languages. It’s great :D

• 186 balmeras // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:51 pm

  Oh, so many! I loved anything Frog & Toad. Also crazy for Henry and Frances books. As I got older, I loved old school chapter books like Nancy Drew and Trixie Beldon mysteries. The best thing about being the youngest of six — lots of hand-me-down books!

  Happy reading!

• 187 LisaHartjes // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:54 pm

  The earliest memory I have of reading by myself was a book about a detective who was trying to find the sheik’s runaway elephant. Turns out it got out of the zoo by building a set of stairs out of blocks of ice.

  My father taught my brother and I to read, as he injured his back and was on extended disability. Reading was a HUGE thing in our family, and books were my favorite gifts - to give and to receive.

  My husband and I have managed to instill that same love of books in our children. My daughter was a lucky beneficiary of a book from First Book. I am so thrilled to have learned about this opportunity for me to help give back.

• 188 BobbieC // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:55 pm

  Having a cold, no voice, and listening to my older son read a bedtime story to his little brother. Just the recollection of the two little heads close together over a book gets me a little teary even now.

• 189 treypennington // Dec 22, 2008 at 4:58 pm

  Good work. Our Rotary Club (http://www.greenvillerotary.org) has an aggressive read-to-me program reaching hundreds in our area. Early literacy is a good thing for sure.

• 190 hannahbee14 // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm

  I remember my mother reading A Wrinkle in Time to me before bed. I love that book, and hope that my comments helps other children and their parents gain valuable memories together. :)

• 191 artbyskym // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:00 pm

  I was raised watching and reading Disney books and now I am raising my children in the same tradition. A few of our favorite bedtimes stories were Cinderella, Beauty and The Beast, and anything that had Winnie the Pooh.
  What a wonderful gift to give!

• 192 dhelbig // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:01 pm

  I loved reading Hans Christian Anderson books when I was young.

• 193 techmama // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:01 pm

  I posted about this call to action.. We used to read Dr. Seuss’s Sleep Book for years.. I am currently reading a Disney book “The Alchemy of Animation”…

  http://techmamas.typepad.com/main/2008/12/disney-donates-books-kids-techies.html

• 194 coberley // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:03 pm

  My favorite book was Corduroy by Don Freeman. I loved teddy bears.

• 195 dbuckley // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:10 pm

  I love Children’s books. The really good ones are one of the richest gifts we can give children. I like the pretty pretty pictures. : )

• 196 anniedowning // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:20 pm

  i love children’s books . . . good thing my daughter does too. we usually have a couple of favorite books at once . . . right now we are loving someday by eileen spinelli and where the wild things are by maurice sendak. i hope she will always love to read.

• 197 dsloanandco // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:20 pm

  So many to choose from, but at this time of year, it had to be Ezra Jack Keats’ A SNOWY DAY.

• 198 ccoleman // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:24 pm

  My current favorites are Goodnight Gorilla, Where the Wild Things Are and The Little Engine That Could.

• 199 vicki_kunkel // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:30 pm

  The Jungle Book stories were my absolute favorite!

• 200 kaschmie // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:30 pm

  I couldn’t pick just one of my favorite books. Here are a few and I have many others that were just as good!
  “Lyle, Lyle Crocodile” - Bernard Waber
  “Blueberries for Sal” - Robert McCloskey
  “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” - Judi Barrett
  “Pokey Little Puppy” - Jeanette Lowry
  “Madeline” - Ludwig Bemelman
  “The Grouchy Ladybug” - Eric Carle
  “But No Elephants” - Jerry Smath

• 201 cschourek // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:36 pm

  I remember the first time I read a book that was long enough that I couldn’t finish it in one night. They call them “chapter books” now. I got to put a bookmark in and put it on my nightstand just like my older sisters did. I felt so grownup. The book was “The Little Blue Dog”.

• 202 littlem // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:37 pm

  I loved “Eloise”- a naughty little girl living in the Plaza Hotel in NYC was my alter-ego!

• 203 joelvanhecke // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:43 pm

  My favorite two stories that I enjoy reading to my kids are The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and The Selfish Giant by Shel Silverstein. As I child my favorite book read to me was The Hobbit by Tolkien.

• 204 MinD98 // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:48 pm

  I loved “A Dark, Dark Tale” - I think my whole family knew it by heart by the time I hit 7 because I made them read it to me all the time.

• 205 Zanna G. // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  One of my family’s Christmas Eve traditions is to read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas to my niece and nephew before bed. They love having undivided adult attention as the dog-eared, duct-taped copy of ‘Twas the Night (from my own childhood!) is passed around.

• 206 JanetBickel // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  my mom was too tired to read to us at nite, but when she became a grandmother, she was a vigorous story reader. for some reason, her man of hr grandkids seemed to like little black sambo the best

• 207 lschourek // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  I loved the Berenstain Bears anything and I also liked Frog and Toad stories……They were great then and still are :0)

• 208 sabrabean // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:50 pm

  When I was little, I loved this story called “Red is the Best Color” (El Rojo Es El Mejor) about a little girl who loved the color red, despite her mother’s urgings to try other colors.

• 209 frank_souders // Dec 22, 2008 at 6:18 pm

  I learned to read at an early age. Don’t recall anybody reading to me as a child. Didn’t read books for pleasure until I was in my later teens and found a few writers that I could identify with. Finally started reading Dr. Seuss when I was in my 30s. He’s still one of my favorite authors. Also started seeing Disney films (old and new) for the first time when I was in my 30s; beauty that no child should be without.

• 210 wsh1266 // Dec 22, 2008 at 6:23 pm

  I loved reading the Junie B stories with voices to my kids; I personally loved “the Dragon’s Handbook” (now out of print) and Harriet the Spy.

• 211 mocha // Dec 22, 2008 at 6:36 pm

  my favorite was the babysitters club! that and cloudy with a chance of meatballs

• 212 bengland // Dec 22, 2008 at 7:36 pm

  Ox Cart man.

• 213 bengland // Dec 22, 2008 at 7:39 pm

  Should have been more to that comment: my daughter and I used to read Goodnight Moon when younger…but now we both really enjoy The Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall and Barbara Coney. Wonderfully charming, simple, relaxing story of a time gone by.

• 214 Marc C. // Dec 22, 2008 at 8:01 pm

  Growing up I always enjoyed reading “The Mouse and the Motorcycle” by Beverly Cleary

• 215 bob s // Dec 22, 2008 at 9:26 pm

  I still have the first new book I was ever given. It’s “A Christmas Carol”. I received it at Christmas in 1967.

• 216 lissa7702 // Dec 22, 2008 at 9:40 pm

  So many wonderful memories reading Disney classics before bed. Especially the princess stories like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. And my all time favorite Lady and the Tramp.

• 217 huangwb // Dec 22, 2008 at 10:40 pm

  Oh man, my favorite bed time story would have to be this one that my mom would tell me about this martial arts monkey that would fight crime. I don’t know how to say his name in English but those stories were pretty awesome. I think they made a cartoon out of him or something?

• 218 bphuettner // Dec 22, 2008 at 10:43 pm

  When I was young, I loved Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys. When my kids were very little, I would read “Goodnight Moon”, “Hats for Sale”, and “Chicken Soup with Rice”!

• 219 ladykent // Dec 22, 2008 at 10:50 pm

  When I was young my parents alternated reading a bedtime story to my sister and me. Some of my favorites were the Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley, and the Secret Garden. A few favorites from younger years include “Make Way for Ducklings” by Robert McKloskey, Bedtime for Francis (and other Francis books such as Bread and Jam for Francis) and Leo the Late Bloomer.

• 220 Emma_H // Dec 22, 2008 at 11:46 pm

  My favourite bedtime story was “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. My father would read it to me faithfully, every night from as far back as I can remember, probably age 3 and a bit. After reading it to me, I would put the book under my pillow. I slept with it under my pillow until I was 9, and we moved to a new house, where it lived in the bookcase he built for me. Over the years, the book was replaced probably about 4 times. I still have the last copy he bought and inscribed with a “to Emma, with love from her Daddy”, and have read to my own grandchildren from it.

• 221 abthompsonjr // Dec 22, 2008 at 11:50 pm

  My mom always read poems from Shel Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends”

• 222 leah // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:07 am

  My favorite book as a small child was the Velveteen Rabbit. When I got a little older I really liked reading the Berenstain Bears books. Now my favorite book to read to my children is Bear Snores On.

• 223 Thomas // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:36 am

  My father read many stories at bedtime but I have vivid memories of pirate adventures and buried gold from a tattered copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Treasure Island.’ I still remember the cover illustration. Also, I loved hearing Christmas stories during this time of year.

• 224 megancarol // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:45 am

  My mom read Cinderella so many times to me when I was little that it was the first book I learned to read myself.

• 225 eliztesch // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:51 am

  ‘Pretzel’ - about an extraordinarily long dachshund who wore a yellow ribbon.

  I used to love that book.

  http://www.amazon.com/Pretzel-H-Rey/dp/0395837332

• 226 jeff318 // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:06 am

  My parents instilled a love of reading from a very young age. We had several “story-a-day ’til Christmas” books, and those stories were always popular during December.

  However, my absolute favorite had to be the Disney picture books they bought for me. The Great Mouse Detective was my favorite, even though I didn’t get to see the movie until years later.

• 227 kerryreads // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:08 am

  As a kid, one of my favorites was Richard Scarry’s Best Storybook Ever. I loved the story, I Am a Bunny. Now, I have passed that book down to my daughter to enjoy.

• 228 exoticat // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:25 am

  I grew up in a house with a basement and since my Dad was a teacher, we had a full wall of apple and orange crates filled with books and comics books. As a result, I still have all of my favorite childhood books and many are Little Golden Books.

  I don’t have one single story that stands out as my favorite as I loved so many of them! If I had to pick one it would probably be Rudolph who is still beloved to me. Flipping through those books now is like entering a time machine of a happy childhood.

  All I can do is stress the importance of having children read and/or having stories and tales told to them. Thanks to Disney for donating books to First Book!

• 229 geekmommy // Dec 23, 2008 at 7:07 am

  The love of my childish bookshelf was Mimi the Merry-Go-Round Cat by Dorothy Haas. So much so that despite it’s having been out of print for 3 decades, I hunted down a copy to share with my own daughter. Nearly 6 now, she probably doesn’t love that book as much as Mommy did - but she certainly loves books as much as I!! :)

  The joy of reading is something every child should know. Thanks Disney & First Book!

• 230 Eva // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:23 am

  A favoriote for my grandchildren has been “Bedtime for Francais” by Russell Hobart. Combining suspense with a touch of humor, it encourages snuggling up under the covers. My twelve year old grand daughter now enjoys sharing it with her baby sister.

• 231 Melissa Techman // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:47 am

  Jenny books by Averill

• 232 Patty W // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:53 am

  My children loved all of the Dr. Seuss books.

• 233 Carol K // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:20 am

  My sons favorite book was the thomas the tank engine stories and form y daughter its anything with princesses.

• 234 Mindy Cash // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:29 am

  My sons favorite bedtime stories are any of the Berenstain Bear books! He loves these stories and they teach him some great life lessons!

• 235 Christina B // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:35 am

  I loved it when my mom would read The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

• 236 andrea // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:45 am

  My FAVORITE books of all time is the series by Thornton W. Burgess. Some of the highlights include: The Adventures of…
  Peter Cottontail, Jimmy Skunk, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Grandfather Frog, Poor Mrs. Quack (among others)

• 237 kickshaw // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:46 am

  Anything by Roald Dahl - but also all collections of stories from around the world which help you explore new cultures in a friendly manner - 1001 Nights, Grimm Brothers, Japanese mythology, pre-conquest America.

• 238 Melissa M // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:47 am

  Growing up in a family of teachers there were always books around. Some of my favorites were “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” “Amelia Bedelia” and anything by Robert Munsch.

• 239 joey // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:56 am

  Goodnight Moon!

• 240 Erin // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:00 am

  Growing up I loved to read the Boxcar Children.

• 241 Maridith // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:10 am

  I love Junie B. Jones!

• 242 Alison // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:13 am

  Nothing relaxes me like reading in bed. Even a few minutes can be such a treat. I always read novels growing up, and now my two kids love reading picture books before they go to sleep. They each get to choose one each night. Last night we read one about Cinderella and one about the Emerald City - great material for lovely dreams!

• 243 Claudia // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:13 am

  My one-year-old boy has loved Little Gorilla, by Ruth Bornstein, since he was teeny. He’s particularly tickled by the lion roaring, and without fail flashes a big dimpled smile when Little Gorilla is suddenly no longer little. The story soothes him at any time of day or night.

• 244 Michelle // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:18 am

  My favorite memory was when my son could “read” (he’d memorized it) Goodnight Moon to me. The book was a gift fromt he hospital, and now at 6 he still loves it.

• 245 Dave // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:20 am

  My son still loves the tooth fairy. He wonders how he never wakes up when she enters the room, moves his pillow and slides in a dollar or two. It is part of life’s little wonders. Thanks Disney for making this magic happen!

• 246 Amanda // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:22 am

  My favorite bedtime story growing up was always Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. It set up the perfect dreams!

• 247 Peggy P. // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:03 pm

  Can you imagine the joy of having a grandchild beg me to read them a bedtime story? How can I resist?

• 248 Katie // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:15 pm

  I used to love Rumpelstiltskin as well as The Pide Piper of Hamlin…

• 249 Francis // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:18 pm

  Where the Wild things are!! I love this book!

• 250 Lesa Holstine // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:19 pm

  I don’t remember what my father read to me, but he did. So much so, that my mother made me a pillow with my father reading to me, and it says, “Richer than you I’ll always be, I had a father who read to me.”

• 251 Jamie Floer // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:19 pm

  All-time faves - A Wrinkle in Time and Incredible Journey

• 252 ZK@Internet Marketing Blog // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:20 pm

  I loved Jack and the beanstalk

• 253 glambert // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:20 pm

  I love reading Bad Boys to my 3 “good girls”. It is best if you use a Southern Accent similar to that Tom Hanks used in Lady Killers.

• 254 Sameer Vasta // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:20 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was and continues to be Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree.” There are few tales of self-sacrifice and love that have such an impact at any age.

• 255 Holli B // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:20 pm

  My mother read to us all the time and we developed our love of reading from her. I remember the Dr. Seuss books and how helpful they were in learning to read. And when I got older, I loved Judy Blume. The original YA writer!

• 256 Matt // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:21 pm

  No day was complete that didn’t end with Lamont the Lonely Monster.

• 257 Elaine // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:22 pm

  My dad & my grandpa used to tell the most wonderful bedtime stories. I wish they were in a book!

• 258 Jason Z // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:22 pm

  When I was a kid I read Dr Seuss’s Green Eggs and ham over and over and over.

  You just can’t have bedtime without Dr Seuss.

• 259 Kelly // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  A childhood favorite bedtime story of mine for this time of year was “The Story of Holly and Ivy” by Rumer Godden. My mom and I used to read it together little by little over several nights leading up to Christmas Eve :)

• 260 Zoe // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  I loved the story and illustrations of Strega Nona :).

• 261 Chriskay // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  As a child I always loved “Hooper Humperdink, Not Him”. I always was sad that he was never invited to the party, and always made sure that I wouldn’t treat anyone that way.

• 262 Danielle Restivo // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  When I was young I simply loved The Secret Garden and the Narnia books. to this day I love reading about mystery doors that lead somewhere special.

• 263 Zach // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  My best memory of childhood bedtime stories is of my Dad (this was a real treat) reading “The Five Chinese Brothers”. That became a real favorite of mine, and one I’ve shared with my own daughter.

• 264 pat // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  my favorite stories were Frog and Toad — or anything by Loeb

• 265 Malcolm Bastien // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  I loved The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

  I loved hearing about stories in general where animals would always make there homes in trees and in the woods, and stories that weren’t so much about something big and magical, but more about curiosity.

• 266 Emily // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:27 pm

  I’ve been reading Goodnight Moon to my daughter — it may not work on her, but it certainly always makes me sleepy and relaxed after reading it.

• 267 Zedman // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:28 pm

  One of may favorite bedtime story memories was reading the first few Harry Potter books every night to my oldest son before bed. What a fun way to discover such a magical world together.

• 268 Amy // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:29 pm

  I loved Amelia Bedelia. To this day, I’m about as good a housekeeper as she was!

• 269 Derek // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:30 pm

  I was a big fan of “Lyle the Crocodile” - great blog post!

• 270 Molly // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:33 pm

  Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
  Owl Babies by Martin Waddell
  The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

• 271 Chris // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:34 pm

  One of my favorite books was–and continues to be–Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree.

  And kudos to Disney for this very worth-while idea.

• 272 joshpaul // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:37 pm

  Dr. Seuss was (and still is) my favorite by far, and Green Eggs & Ham stands out from the rest. I’ve even gone so far as to use green food coloring on breakfast foods… :-)

• 273 Kristen // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:37 pm

  I always loved my Shel Silverstein poems. A Light in the Attic might be my favorite collection.

• 274 D // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  The Hobbit.

  To this day I am still blown away that my mother was able to make up a different voice for each of the dwarves.

• 275 Clay // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  Our older kids love the Narnia books, and our younger kids books like Goodnight Moon.

• 276 Vicki // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:39 pm

  I love’d bedtime stories and I love reading now.

  Thanks Disney for sharing the gift of a book.

• 277 Nate // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:42 pm

  The Curious George series is a classic…

• 278 michelle // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:42 pm

  My favorite was blueberries for sal.

• 279 Troy // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:43 pm

  There is nothing like The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It’s still one of my favorite books to read to myself when I’m sick in bed!

• 280 Brenna // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:43 pm

  I loved Stephanie’s Ponytail by Robert Munsch. I read it over 200 times growing up and I think I could still pick it up and enjoy it.

• 281 Devon // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:46 pm

  I used to love “Bootsie Barker Bites” but its out of print now.

  I was also a huge fan of the Chronicles of Narnia and the Tales of Mr. Frog and Mr. Toad.

  But there are so many good children’s books out there… “Stelluna” “Goodnight Moon” “Alexanders No Good Very Bad….Day” etc etc.

  This is an amazing endeavor, lets get some books donated :)

  Happy Holidays!!!

• 282 Stefan // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:46 pm

  Paddington Bear was a big favorite, as was Winnie the Pooh. I guess I liked bears.

• 283 Lauren // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:48 pm

  I loved Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater. When we read it more than once a week, my dad would change up the words to make it more funny. Great memories.

• 284 Anita Cohen-Williams // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:55 pm

  I loved the Winnie the Pooh Stories by A.A. Milne, and his poetry. My daughter was enthralled by Goodnight Moon as well.

• 285 Emelia // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:56 pm

  My favorite was always the spot the dog series. I absolutely loved those books.

• 286 Jodi // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:57 pm

  My dad used to read me “Come over to my house, come over and play” a book I now read to my children!

• 287 Jeffrey Taylor // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  Goodnight Moon. And my Mom read it so soothingly well that I will never find a matching sedative. I give it to every friend and family member who has a newborn.

• 288 Carisse // Dec 23, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  Like many others, my favorite book still is Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree.

• 289 PR_Persson // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  As a child I used to love Whinnie the Pooh. With the original drawings.

• 290 Keri McGrath // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:04 pm

  My dad used to tell us the story of “Billy Goat’s Gruff” before bed time, and we loved it. It’s an old folk tale and my brother and I never got tired of it.

• 291 Ben Boles // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:07 pm

  Mine would have to be Love You Forever by Robert N. Munsch and Sheila McGraw.

• 292 Fae // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:07 pm

  I could never pick a favorite!

• 293 Richard Countryman // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:07 pm

  Tom Sawyer was one of my favorites.

• 294 Matt Biegacki // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:09 pm

  “Where the Wild Things Are” followed up by anything by Chris van Allsburg.

  Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

• 295 jeff stern // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:13 pm

  Goodnight Moon. Couldn’t go to sleep without hearing that for years.

• 296 Megan Boucher // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:18 pm

  Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola and also The Velveteen Rabbit.

• 297 Kevin // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:19 pm

  I remember my father reading “goodnight moon” to my brother at night, in all of these funny voices, and he used to crack up every time!

• 298 Valorie Helmick // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:21 pm

  I waited with such anticipation for the end of the day, when my dad would read me James and the Giant Peach! Oh what whimsical, wonderful fantasy..and to this day, I still LOVE being read too!

• 299 Tim // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:22 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was Where The Wild Things Are.

• 300 John // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:23 pm

  I loved the Little House books when I was young!

• 301 Stephanie // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:24 pm

  My mom used to read the Dr. Seuss books to me and I still love them today!

• 302 Leah // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:26 pm

  Winnie the Pooh, and Little House in the Big Woods! I loved those books!

• 303 Leah Merriman // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:30 pm

  I remember my Grandma always reading Ferdinand the Bull to me - I loved it so much! Also Courdoroy the Bear, Gus the Friendly Ghost, and the Beatrix Potter books!

• 304 stephanie t. // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:31 pm

  My favorite book is “Goodnight Moon”. My children love Eric Carle’s books and Fancy Nancy!

• 305 Karen // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:31 pm

  Any story at bedtime was a treat but my favorite was listening to my Dad read Dr Seuss’ Beetle Battle. I can still hear him saying “the Beetle Battle in the Muddle Puddle.”

• 306 Ace // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  My 6 year old used to read me Dr. Seuss books all the time. Such a great resource to make kids love reading.

• 307 Richard Harrison // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:35 pm

  As a child, there was nothing like listening to Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’.

• 308 Jen @problem girl // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:37 pm

  The first book I remember being read to me was Pat the Bunny. Now I read it to my kids. It’s an enduring classic.

• 309 Rachel // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:38 pm

  Eloise at the Plaza is a wonderfully written and illustrated book for children. Nothing is more fun to read as a little girl!

• 310 Kristan // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:44 pm

  Whenever I was sick, my dad used to read me Tolkien’s short story “Smith of Wooton Major.” It was wonderful back then and I wish he would read it to me still.

• 311 Miss Jane // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:46 pm

  I definately loved Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

• 312 Adrienne // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:47 pm

  Mom used to read The Westing Game to me everyday after school. I begged for it!

• 313 Bryan Irrera // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:49 pm

  While my favorite to have read to me is “Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss, my favorites to read to others (specifically, my goddaughter, Maia) are “The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish” by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean (it’s hysterical and the story has fun little twists throughout, paired with really beautiful illustrations by Mr. McKean) and “Ruby’s Wish” by Shirin Yim with illustrations by Sophie Blackall (the true story of Ms. Yim’s grandmother is very inspiring and always chokes me up at the end).

• 314 Michelf // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  When I was very young my favorite bed time story was a Little Golden Book starring Grover called “There’s a Monster at the End Of This Book”.

• 315 Dannon // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:55 pm

  Books allow the imagination to grow.

• 316 Eileen // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:56 pm

  My favorite books were “Go! Dog! Go!” and “Where the Wild Things Are.”

• 317 Michelle. V // Dec 23, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  My all time favorite childrens book is Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans. As a kid I wanted to go on every adventure she went on. Every little girl wants to be like Madeline!!
  Happy Holidays All!!!

• 318 Rachel // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:00 pm

  I loved the Sneetches by Dr. Suess.

• 319 Cindy // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:13 pm

  Cinderella is my all time favorite!

• 320 ksreader // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:16 pm

  When I was growing up my family had a large book of fairy tales that used Disney characters as the main characters. As I learned to read, I read these stories over and over. I think my favorite was Mickey Mouse as the brave little tailor, killing seven at one blow (flies, not giants as the townspeople thought).

• 321 Mark // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:21 pm

  Anything Dr. Suess.

• 322 cleisdesign // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:23 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was Snow white and the Seven Drawves.

• 323 Jeff Wetherington // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:25 pm

  “Winnie the Pooh and the 100 Acre Wood” was my favorite bedtime story.

• 324 Sarah // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:27 pm

  Princess and the Pea

• 325 Kathy // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:29 pm

  My daughter use to love her bedtime stories so much she would sleep with them under her pillow. Her all time favorite… Peanut butter Hippo.

• 326 yakosmom // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:30 pm

  I had a book of nursery rhymes I read to my kids when they were little. I used to sing some of them I knew tunes for, and they loved that. They wanted to read that book over and over. Come to think of it, they wanted to read all their books over & over!

• 327 stardustaimee // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:34 pm

  My mom used to sing the stories in books to me. To this day, i have no idea how she did it and always make it seem like it was always meant to be read that way. Different melodies and rythyms… amazing. Miss you mom.

• 328 Kaitlyn B // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:37 pm

  My favorite story growing up was one of my dads favorite books as a kid, “A Pickle for a Nickel”. I read stories to the girls I watch all the time now and a new favorite is “Alice the Fairy”

• 329 Kelly D // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:38 pm

  I don’t recall bedtime stories when I was a kid, but my twin girls are all about a good book before they get tucked into bed. Their favorite books are the Disney Princesses or How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss. I think we read the Grinch until July and he’s back again.

  The best way to end my day is reading a book to my daughters.

  I hope you reach 250,000 comments!

• 330 Vanessa // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:41 pm

  I have many geat memories of falling asleep to “If I Ran the Zoo” and “The Sleep Book” (Dr. Suess).

• 331 Ryan // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:45 pm

  Dr. Seuss was the best bedtime reading. Hope every kid gets to experience that.

• 332 Gennady // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:47 pm

  I loved to read sesame streets books. Particularly, anything to do with Ernie and Bert.
  I used to carry around an Ernie doll all the time and he was always there to listen to me read

• 333 suzi w // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:58 pm

  Make Way for Pirates and Cinderella. I still have the tattered copy of Make Way for Pirates.

• 334 Mike // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:58 pm

  “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

  Love that one.

• 335 Erika // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:03 pm

  I liked Richard Scarry books. There was one that ended with “Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the zimparumpazoos bite!” My dad and I still say that to each other every now and then.

• 336 Megan // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:06 pm

  i used to love the Pokey Little Puppy. now that I have kids - I don’t like the story at all - that sneaky puppy gets the treats!

• 337 Miss Angela // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:07 pm

  I love the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. I would read in bed with a flashlight well past my bedtime.

• 338 KikiNYC // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:10 pm

  I will always love “The Polar Express.”

• 339 Lotus Hazlett // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:11 pm

  My Grandpa used to always read me “Katie Comes First.” Katie is a doll owned by a girl whose parents run a doll hospital, but there never is time to make Katie look beautiful from the years of love that Ruth has given her. Finally one day, it’s her turn! Every other page was in color and the pictures where beautiful. I now read it to my own daughter.

• 340 Alison // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:14 pm

  I can’t remember any particular book I loved, but I remember what I loved most about bedtime stories with my dad. When it came time to turn a page, we would say “Beep!” first.

• 341 Gillian // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:19 pm

  My favorite childhood book was “Happy Birthday Henry”. My mom used to read it to me everynight. I is about a boy, Henry, who has a birthday party and nothing goes right. At the end however, he realizes he did have a great day.

• 342 Diane // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:23 pm

  Always loved night time stories - any was fine.

• 343 Ms. Library // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:25 pm

  My dad used to tell me a strange version of The Three Little Pigs that I loved, but I really liked when my grandma would read any of the Little Golden Books to me.

• 344 Karen // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:26 pm

  My parents read to me every night before bed when I was a child. I loved once I got old enough for chapter books, and we’d make them last for weeks. I think my favorites were the Chronicles of Narnia….

• 345 Terry // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:29 pm

  I love reading to my children at bedtime. My daughter loves Maisy and my son still asks me to read to him on occasion.

• 346 Meagan // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:36 pm

  Hmm.. since I was able to read, I used to spend a good deal of my free time in the public library. As i reflect, nearly twenty years later, “The Green Ribbon”– a story in “A Dark, Dark Room” by Alvin Schwartz– comes to mind. It was my favorite. I read it over and over and over.

• 347 Christine // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:43 pm

  The first story I remember falling in love with is Hansel and Gretel. Then when I was in the 2nd grade, I had the opportunity to play the wicked witch in a play version of it at my school!

• 348 Asianmommy // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:45 pm

  We read to our kids every night. Right now, we’re enjoying “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”

• 349 Christy K // Dec 23, 2008 at 3:47 pm

  My parents always read to me and then as I grew, read on my own. My favorite bedtime story though is definitely “Where the wild things are”. I loved the story and illustrations.

• 350 Sandra S // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:02 pm

  One of my favorites when growing up was Charlotte’s Web. I grew up on a farm raising pigs so I could identify with Fern. I loved reading all books. I grew into the Little House on the Prairie Books. I fostered reading in my children. It pleases me to know they are fostering reading in their children. My grand-daughter Haylee has her own cabinet full of books at my house. She goes to it and selects 4 or 5 books at a time for me to read to her. Her parents read to her each night and then she “reads” herself to sleep. She is almost 3, and reads the pictures to herself until she falls asleep. Reading is so important.

• 351 Thomas C // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:03 pm

  I love reading to my nephew the works of Dr. Seuss and anything Star Wars. Of course, Walter the Farting Dog are also favorites in our house.

• 352 LBPLF // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:09 pm

  My favorite book was the Aristocats. My father owned a copy of the book in Polish and Hebrew.

• 353 Lori // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:14 pm

  It’s so hard to pick just one. My mom read me all of the Golden Books. I also loved all of the series books - Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prarie. I started reading to my daughter the day she was born, and now at 13 we still read together all the time. Dr Seuss will always rank as one of my favorites to read together.

• 354 Deb // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:15 pm

  I’ve loved books for as long as I can remember, but one of my favorites has always been A Snowy Day. I really wanted one of those pointy-headed snowsuits, and to play in that deep, clean, smooth snow.

• 355 Hazel // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:17 pm

  Some of my favorite memories growing up are trips to the library with my mom and sister. I loved Corduroy, Bread and Jam for Frances, Where the Wild Things Are, Goodnight Moon, and the Very Hungry Caterpillar.

• 356 Digital Photography // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:31 pm

  Dr Seuss was alway my favorite to read to my daughter.

• 357 laura // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:38 pm

  Morris Goes to School!

• 358 lynne // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:38 pm

  The Velveteen Rabbit :-)

• 359 Sofia C. // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:40 pm

  My Favorite series was the Baby Sitters club.

  Favorite picture books were anything by Tommy Dipaola and “Wednesday is Spaghetti Day”

• 360 angela // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:41 pm

  I’ll love you forever. Has been and always will be my favorite. I read it to my kids at work everyday at nap time

• 361 reader // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:45 pm

  The little mermaid

• 362 Katie Boucher // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:50 pm

  You’ve Got Dragons

  Mr. Popper’s Penguins

  and Number The Stars- all great ones!

• 363 Sheri // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:57 pm

  The Poky Little Puppy! It was my favorite as a kid, and before my mom passed away, she bought copies for all of the grandchildren that she would not meet. Very special book to me!

• 364 Bryan // Dec 23, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  As a child, i loved when my father read me Sherlock Holmes mysteries. He would pick a different one from the collected edition, and if I didnt fall asleep before it was over, I would try to guess the culprit :P

• 365 Debbie // Dec 23, 2008 at 5:10 pm

  Hi there! I love this idea! How great!

  My favorite bedtime story is a book that was given to me by my Aunt while I was pregnant with my first child–it is called Time for Bed, and it is a lovely story of Mother animals putting each of their children to bed, and it is set in rhyme. It is also so beautifully illustrated.

  A true classic and beautiful book. A book no Mother should be without!

• 366 Paul // Dec 23, 2008 at 5:36 pm

  Any Hans Christian Anderson or Dr Seuss were my favourites.

• 367 Matt // Dec 23, 2008 at 5:38 pm

  Lately, my daughters and I have enjoyed reading “Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late.” It’s exactly how my older daughter acts at bedtime.

• 368 Wilson Swain // Dec 23, 2008 at 5:38 pm

  Richard Scarry’s ‘Funniest Storybook Ever!’

• 369 April // Dec 23, 2008 at 5:45 pm

  Bunny my Hunny - Baby bunny who looks EXACTLY like his mom gets lost - but he calls out to her and finds her. Mom’s can always find their little bunnies by their calls. My “bunny” looks just like me too.

• 370 Nicole // Dec 23, 2008 at 5:45 pm

  Anne of Green Gables, my absolute favorite! I think i read it like 6 times, no exaggeration needed.

• 371 Karen // Dec 23, 2008 at 5:53 pm

  Bambi, my all time favorite Disney movie and book. On the cover of my book, Bambi was flocked so you could feel his spotted coat.

• 372 Robyn // Dec 23, 2008 at 5:55 pm

  My absolute favorite fairytale is Sleeping Beauty. I still love the story!

• 373 Marianne Wilson Photography // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:10 pm

  As a kid I always loved the little mermaid in a book and also Good Night Moon!

• 374 Lauren // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:24 pm

  Goodnight Opus was, and continues to be my favorite story! The words, images, and message is fantastic!

• 375 Michael Bev // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  The Giving Tree

• 376 LaShaunda // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  I’ve always loved the Little House On The Prarie series. I wrote a short story about it here:

  http://aakulturezone.com/wvoices/2008/12/lashaunda-hoffman/

• 377 Christy Tvarok Green // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:28 pm

  I loved Hop On Pop by Dr. Seuss… it was the first book I remember reading by myself. Now, my favorite has to be “Pierre” by Maurice Sendak…makes me giggle still!

• 378 Annie Hendricks // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:35 pm

  I love reading my son a bedtime story. It is one of the moments I looked forward to when becoming a mom. I love to read him Just In Case YOu Ever Wonder by Max Lucado. It re-enforces how much I love him.

• 379 Dana // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:47 pm

  There’s a monster at the end of this book (sesame street). I loved grover!

• 380 Ellen // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:54 pm

  My favorite ever children’s bedtime story is “The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon,” by Nancy Willard (illustrated by David McPhail). The story is lovely, and the watercolor pictures are magnificent.

• 381 molly // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:57 pm

  I remember my mom reading Good Night Moon and us looking for the little mouse on every page. Now when I read it to my little nephew, even though he’s too young to look for the mouse, I always see the mouse on every page! :)

• 382 Kylie // Dec 23, 2008 at 6:57 pm

  I loved the Magic Treehouse series when I was younger.

• 383 Jennie // Dec 23, 2008 at 7:10 pm

  Remember the Night Rainbow and Caretakers of Wonder by Eden Cooper were favorites of mine!

• 384 Kim // Dec 23, 2008 at 7:21 pm

  I’ll always remember Goodnight Moon when I was really young. But one of my favorites is The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Wintrhop.

• 385 Disney-O-Rama // Dec 23, 2008 at 7:25 pm

  Cannot remember one story in particular but always loved anything by Dr Seuss.

• 386 lisa // Dec 23, 2008 at 7:28 pm

  I used to read Strega Nona….in an italian accent…..to kids i babysat for….they loved it!!

• 387 Thom // Dec 23, 2008 at 7:28 pm

  My favorite book as a kid was The Wizard of Oz or any of The Rescuers books with Miss Bianca.

• 388 Will // Dec 23, 2008 at 7:58 pm

  I really loved reading His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman.

• 389 Dana F // Dec 23, 2008 at 7:59 pm

  Just after I learned to read, my parents got me a subscription to a Disney book of the month club. Each month a new “Disney-fied” classic would arrive in the mail.

  My two favorites were “The Emporer’s New Clothes” which I think featured the jaguar from Jungle Book and “Button Soup” with Scrooge McDuck!

  Happy reading over the Holidays - thanks Disney!

• 390 jennifer // Dec 23, 2008 at 8:00 pm

  Frog and Toad and I have very fond memories of my mom reading Watership Down

• 391 Brenda Caldwell // Dec 23, 2008 at 8:13 pm

  I wasn’t read too alot when I was a child but I really look forward to “Bedtime Stories” with my grandchildren…I read to each of them on a regular basis and I think I enjoy it as much as they do! We are big disney fans and so when it comes to reading Disney books are most often the ones read!! Thanks Disney for the books you are generously donating! God Bless and…. Hi Mickey, See ya real Soon!!

• 392 Natasha G // Dec 23, 2008 at 8:28 pm

  One of my favs to read to the kids is Love You Forever…

• 393 Teresa C // Dec 23, 2008 at 8:43 pm

  My youngest son loves “Blizzard of the Blue Moon” - it’s one of the Magic Tree House Books by Mary Pope Osborne.

• 394 Kristen // Dec 23, 2008 at 8:46 pm

  It started out with the Golden Books…Disney collections…then Harry Potter…Now, every Christmas Eve I read them “T’was the Night Before Christmas” and “A Christmas Carol”

• 395 Amy // Dec 23, 2008 at 8:52 pm

  My baby loves Mem Foxs’s “Time for Bed”. It’s a lovely, gentle book with beautiful illustrations.

• 396 Stacy Z // Dec 23, 2008 at 8:58 pm

  I still remember “The Pokey Little Puppy”

• 397 Stacy Z // Dec 23, 2008 at 8:58 pm

  “The Pokey Little Puppy”

• 398 Kris // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:08 pm

  My favorite bedtime story / memory is of my grandmother reading “The Wizard of Oz” by Frank Baum. I listened to it over and over and over and over…and still love it 30+ years later!

• 399 Stina // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:16 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. I just LOVED that sneezing wolf.

• 400 Andre // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:24 pm

  my favorate book is mary poppins , we still have the original and it is in pretty good condition

• 401 Alexander // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:26 pm

  My favorite bedtime story is James and the Giant Peach!

• 402 Lisa A // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:28 pm

  I can remember my mother reading Dr. Seuss to me. I was facinated by each and every one and love them as much now as I did back then.

• 403 cherrie // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:53 pm

  any Jan Brett book, or any of the if you give a mouse a cookie books or the sequels!

• 404 Hannah // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:55 pm

  I always loved “The Wind in the Willows”.

• 405 anna // Dec 23, 2008 at 9:57 pm

  I think it would have to be “Where the Wild Things Are”.

• 406 Ashley // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:00 pm

  I loved Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree”. What a great story =)

• 407 Ashley // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:05 pm

  Definitely “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. What a great story =)

• 408 Robert // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:09 pm

  I loved reading Roald Dahl’s books, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda! :)

• 409 Koppelia // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:11 pm

  My favorite bedtime stories growing up were always the ones that my father would read to me from a book of Japanese fairy tales that he had had since he was a little boy. I will always treasure the memories of those stories being read to me.

• 410 Julia G. // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:18 pm

  My mom used to read me The Wizard of Oz illustrated by Charles Santore. I loved Dorothy and the vivid, beautiful images really stuck with me.

• 411 vanda // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:24 pm

  My favorite bedtime stories were ones I made up myself. I’d tell them to my stuffed animals. For that reason, they were usually set in a forest and included talking animals. (I wanted to make sure my stuffed animals could relate.)

• 412 Cara // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:30 pm

  My mother would read “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch to my sister and I and could not get through the book without crying.

• 413 joyt // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  My mother would usually tell my sister and me stories such as “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Cinderella”. How I loved hearing her tell those tales which came alive in my mind.

• 414 Hieronymie // Dec 23, 2008 at 10:58 pm

  Eeyore was the character I identified with. My mother used to read “Winnie the Pooh” and Milne’s poems to us at bedtime. I still greatly enjoy the poems and the stories, and I laugh every time I read “The Pooh Perplex.”

• 415 Tracey // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:04 pm

  I can’t remember what I liked, but my four year old is a huge Tomie dePaola fan. She now wants to be an artist when she grows up!

• 416 mskeith89 // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:35 pm

  My mom used to read us Pilgrim’s Progress and the Louis L’Amour series called “The Sacketts”.

• 417 Missy // Dec 23, 2008 at 11:42 pm

  I used to love reading my children Time to Sleep by Mem Fox and Goodnight Moon.

• 418 Theresa Marie // Dec 24, 2008 at 12:17 am

  I can not wait for this movie, although I wont be seeing it on Christmas day…Adam Sandler is hands down our favorite!

  I read SO much when I was little, I cant put a finger on my favorite bedtime story but I loved Goodnight Moon, Any Dr. Seuss book, Where the wild things are, and any Disney book.

  Im so glad to hear about this, Reading is such an important thing in a childs life and it most definitely still is in mine! : )

• 419 katie // Dec 24, 2008 at 12:18 am

  i love the memory of my grandmother reading Mother Goose nursery rhymes to me as a child…she gave me a signed book for my children, a special gift with special memories…

• 420 Brandi // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:36 am

  Ooh I love so many books. As a very young girl I liked Where the Wild Things Are and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, as well as many others. When we got a little older, my Mother read us books like Heidi, which is wonderful.

• 421 Katie // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:04 am

  The Special Trade was my favorite book growing up.

• 422 Robert Wescott // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:20 am

  I was infactuated with the Danny Dunn Series. I would get up at night grab a flashlight and scurry off to my reading hideout. Reading was better than TV to me, I’d read the book until I was finished.

• 423 Zak // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:39 am

  I still remember my mom reading Little House On the Prairie to me as a little kid. Now I read everything from Eric Carle to Junie B. Jones to my children. We love reading! I’m so proud of my 5 year old daughter she is now reading very well!

• 424 Jay // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:41 am

  Right now, at bedtime, I’m reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to my son.

• 425 Matthew Legare // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:49 am

  When I was very short, my favorite bedtime story was Go Dog Go! I’m not sure why it was, but there was something about drifting off to sleep hearing about a Big Dog Party up in a tree…

• 426 Alex // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:23 am

  My favorite book from my childhood is “The Carrot Seed” by Ruth Krauss

• 427 ohana photographers // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:37 am

  when i’d spend the night at my grandma’s she’d play old records. my favorite was mickey and the beanstalk and little toot the tugboat. i miss my grandma, she passed this past september :(

• 428 Jaime Hough // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:37 am

  Two books stand out in my mind, that my mom and dad read to us at bedtime - Good Families Don’t by Robert Munsch, and Baby Island. My kiddos enjoy reading me bedtime stories, including Goodnight Moon, anything Eric Carle, and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! The Giving Tree & Love You Forever are favorites of theirs as well, along with any Shel Silverstein poem. I read them chapter books as well - builds up a great suspense for the next night, and a love of reading! We finished Charlotte’s Web a while ago, and now they are into the Chronicles of Narnia. 2 and 4, and they LOVE to read and be read to!!!

• 429 Hannah // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:03 am

  I have kept a lot of the books that my mom read to me. I can’t wait to read them to my kids! They make me feel so safe when I read them.

• 430 Jodie // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:23 am

  I remember being read a lot of Enid Blyton when I was younger.

• 431 Mary // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:34 am

  I loved reading Bernstein Bear books to my daughter. I actually had reading disabilities as a child but learned to read better from reading to my daughter. Now, she loves to read!

• 432 Michael // Dec 24, 2008 at 6:47 am

  Here’s to the day schools spend as much for library books as they do on football.

• 433 Clare Swindlehurst // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:23 am

  What a great idea. I loved the Anne of Green Gables books.

  I posted about this at my website too: http://www.clareswindlehurst.com/disneyworld/2008/12/24/disney-donate-book-child/

• 434 Michelle // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:26 am

  When I was little my dad would read me the 5 1/2 club book. It was a great story, every night one chapter. We read it over and over again. Special times I will never forget.

• 435 Heather // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:59 am

  Always have a fond spot for Cinderella and Go Dogs Go! Tonight, I will sit by the fire and read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” to my boys.

• 436 Bernie // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:04 am

  My kids enjoy listening to us ready the Harry Potter books just before bedtime. It’s a great way to spend quality time together.

• 437 Alison // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:11 am

  I always loved the Giving Tree..such a great story, and I love reading it to my kids!

• 438 Jane // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:57 am

  I loved the book of James Whitcmb Riley poems and a book of bible stories that were my dad’s. I recall the picture of Daniel in the lion’s den vividly, and I’m now 79 yrs old.

• 439 Brooke // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:14 am

  I’ve always loved “The Monster at the End of Book”. Who doesn’t love Grover?

• 440 Erin // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:17 am

  I my mom used to read me books before I went to bed when I was a kid and I read a little bit of whatever book I am reading at the moment right before I go to bed and I am 15.

• 441 Liz C // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:44 am

  I’ve always loved to read and loved books. I loved them so much as a child I didn’t sleep with stuffed animals, I slept with every book I owned. And read every night

• 442 Ana // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:50 am

  My favorite books as a child and teen were the works of Tamara Pierce, and I still collect them.

• 443 Becky // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:56 am

  Any book by Beverly Cleary (http://www.beverlycleary.com/books/index.html), Peggy Parish (adventures of “Amelia Bedelia”), and Clifford B. Hicks (adventures of “Alvin Fernald”) were great reading, better than watching & sharing the one TV in the house. ;-) Sci Fi and mystery from Charles Fontenay (’Kipton Chronicles’) and The ‘Mother Goose’ stories, any book of “Fairy tales”, and mythology are timeless adventures that I would loved to read any time.

• 444 Stacey H // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:13 am

  One of my favorite books as a child was Shel Silverstien’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends”. My fovorite book to read my ten month old son at bedtime is “Snggle Up Sleepy One’s” by Claire Freedman.

• 445 JenniferSchwank // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:16 am

  I love all Kevin Henkes books. I think Owen is my favorite because both of my kiddos adore their “lovies.” We have a bunny lovie and a fuzzy! As a child I remember my mother starting to read me the Little House series before I could read. I ended up finishing them out on my own. Reading to your child is the best gift ever!! What a great cause.

• 446 Rob G. // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:29 am

  Corduroy the Bear and Little Black a Pony.

• 447 Jack // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:31 am

  Love me some “Goodnight Moon.”

• 448 Mindy // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:38 am

  I would have to say I always liked Dr. Seuss books. My favorite to read my son is I love you stinky face.

• 449 Sharon // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:48 am

  With no TV when I was growing up, books were very important. Loved nothing more than the books I received for Christmas like: Black Beauty, the Heidi books (my oldest is named for her), and the Nancy Drew mysteries

• 450 Jason // Dec 24, 2008 at 12:05 pm

  Good bedtime book: Grover’s Very Bad Awful Day or something like that. He drops his ice cream on the ground, steps in gum, forgets his homework. Hilarious. That guy had it rough.

• 451 Claire // Dec 24, 2008 at 12:08 pm

  I always loved a book called “The Rain Babies”
  Or, anything by Dr. Seuss.
  This is an amazing thing!

• 452 Todd // Dec 24, 2008 at 12:11 pm

  Mike Mulligan and the Steam Shovel! I loved hearing the story as a child and as an adult, it just keeps getting better!

• 453 gail // Dec 24, 2008 at 12:14 pm

  This time of year we always read “The Polar Express.”
  Even to the adults! One year an adults friend loved the story so much he made a huge lit Polar Express display for his yard.

• 454 maria Wright // Dec 24, 2008 at 12:25 pm

  I loved The Littlest Angel and I still do. The illustrations are beautiful and the message endearing. My grandson and I have had great fun with Brown Bear, Brown Bear. We memorized it and recite it over the phone.

• 455 Gina // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:07 pm

  Anything Dr. Seuss. I still love reading those silly rhymes to my kids, or now they are reading them to me!!!

• 456 Patrice // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:23 pm

  Guess How Much I Love You - my all time fave with awesome memories of my Mother reading it to me, I know read it to my two daughters!

• 457 Candice // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:38 pm

  “Where the Wild Things Are” was a favorite as a child…plus Shel Silverstein’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends” inspired my love for poetry.

• 458 Brian // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:39 pm

  My all-time favorite series was/is/will always be “The Dark is Rising” by Susan Cooper. I truly love to read “Goodnight Moon” and “Ferdinand the Bull” to my baby girl and look forward to when I can share chapter books with her as well.

• 459 Megan // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:40 pm

  I love reading “Time for Bed” by Mem Fox to my baby boy!

• 460 Anne // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:43 pm

  “Guess How Much I Love You” is my favorite bedtime story

• 461 Michelle // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:45 pm

  My son and I read The Lorax almost every night. He likes to tell the other preschool kids not to be greedy like the Oncler!

• 462 Martha // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:46 pm

  I love picture books. I have many, many favorites. But the one that sticks out in my memory as a child is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. I love the simplicity of the story and the creative collage illustration. I smile every time I see this book.

• 463 Rebecca H. // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:48 pm

  My mother read “The Little House” to me and I loved it. I bought it to share with my children some day.

• 464 Kristin // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:52 pm

  A family friend used to do dramatic readings of Green Eggs and Ham when my brother and I were young. Now that he has a daughter we’ve taken up the tradition - we’ve got so good at There’s A Wocket in my Pocket that we can do it over the phone when one of us is away!

• 465 Margaret // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:53 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was The Twits by Roald Dahl. My parents would read my brother and I a chapter each night, and we simply delighted in hearing about the horribly inventive things the horrible twits would do to each other.

• 466 Margaret // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:54 pm

  Someone else mentioned The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and I have to agree that it’s one of the best picture books of all time. I used to have to read it again and again and again and again to the kids in the nursery I supervised.

• 467 Margaret // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:56 pm

  I also loved Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet and Alan Allberg.

• 468 Kelly // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:57 pm

  For years, my mother would read a chapter from Little House on the Prairie to my sister and me before bed. We read through the entire series about three times.

• 469 Margaret // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:57 pm

  And Burglar Bill, which is now out of print, by Janet and Allan Allberg was another one of my favorites.

• 470 Diane // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  My best memories are of reading Kippling’s Just so stories to my children at night. They always loved hearing about the animals. They never wanted to go to sleep without a story being read to them.

• 471 Margaret // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  Every Christmas, my mom would read my brother and I The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsberg….

• 472 Margaret // Dec 24, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  and every Fall she’d read us The Stranger, and neither book every became less magical for us.

• 473 Rich Koster // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:00 pm

  In that picture shown on this page, too bad he doesn’t have one of the Mickey-faced, mouse-eared umbrellas that he’s holding!

• 474 Rich Koster // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:03 pm

  Meant to add in the above reply: I have great memories of using my mouse-eared umbrella at Disneyland, WDW, and the New Orleans Jazz Fest. I always got great comments when I had it out and open!

• 475 Nedra // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:16 pm

  It’s hard to pick just one! I loved reading several books every night to my kids. Oh, I love and Good Night Moon were favorites. I also loved reading anything by Eric Carle and Jan Brett.

• 476 laryn // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:34 pm

  Good Night Moon, of course!

• 477 peg. // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:48 pm

  As a kid, I fell in love with Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and all stories that took me in to other worlds. With books you can travel anywhere–even through time and to other words–without ever leaving your home. Books are what connect us throughout time. Read on!

• 478 Michelle // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:53 pm

  My mother used to read me “I Love You Forever” when I was little. It is such a sweet book and it still makes me tear up to this day to read it.

• 479 Shirley // Dec 24, 2008 at 2:56 pm

  I always wanted to read poets - Robert Louis Stevenson, Eugene Field, and James Whitmore.

• 480 Sarah // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:06 pm

  I used to hate reading, the first book I ever read was Are You My Mother. Once I hit middle school and was introduced to other world’s than Dr. Suess such as Rowling’s Harry Potter and Pullman’s His Dark Materials, I found my love of reading. I am now an English major and get to escape into a whole new realm and adventure every time I have hw : )

• 481 Garrin // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:11 pm

  My favorite childhood book was The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting. I think it was the jumping-off point for my intended career as a writer.

• 482 Sue Ellen // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:16 pm

  As a child, I loved the book “Wait Till the Moon Is Full” by Margaret Wise Brown. It is a great story about being patient and anticipation. I still share it with parents and children looking for a good book in my library.

• 483 Sophie // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:16 pm

  One of my all time favorites is Grandfather Twilight by Barbara Helen Berger. It is such a BEAUTIFUL book

• 484 Michelle // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:36 pm

  I’d have to say that I love reading There’s No Such Thing as a Dragon to my nephews, and after Wednesday I certainly hope we’ll be on to Scieszka and Smith’s Stinky Cheese Man! Scieszka can do no wrong in my book.

• 485 Helga // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:38 pm

  The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is the best Christmas/nighttime story ever!

• 486 Adam // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:38 pm

  Winnie the Pooh rocked my world back in the day.

• 487 Eric Van Winkle // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:42 pm

  One of my favorite bedtime stories was “The Little Engine That Could”. My parents would read it, and remind me that you must always believe in yourself even when others doubt you.
  I still carry that book and motto today, and gladly pass it on to my son.

• 488 Andrew Rohman // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:46 pm

  one of my favorite bedtime story traditions is the reading of the original Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve as we do some tree decorating before heading to bed..

  Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!!

• 489 Robby Slaughter // Dec 24, 2008 at 3:48 pm

  I was a read-under-the-covers-with-a-flashlight kid. My eyes aren’t quite as good anymore, but somehow my childhood curosity remains.

• 490 Tedra Richter // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:05 pm

  Pat the Bunny will always be the coolest, but those Serendipity books were great! I love this idea!

• 491 Jean // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:13 pm

  A few years ago I volunteered at an elementary school and read to the 5 year olds. They took turns so I read one-on-one to several students each time I volunteered. The rewarding thing was the excited look on those little faces when I walked into the school room-each wanting a turn. Books and reading seem to be so important to each of them.

• 492 Shelley Vegas // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:28 pm

  “The Princess & the Pea” was always one that stuck with me. Oh, and Dr. Suess rocks…always!

• 493 down30 // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:30 pm

  My favorite book and bedtime story - Little Black a Pony!

• 494 Jason // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:42 pm

  My favorite was always “Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel”. When my son was born, that was one of the first books I made sure that we had to read to him at bedtime.

• 495 Margo Jantzi // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:42 pm

  My favorite bedtime story:

  Love You Forever by Robert Munsch

• 496 Margaret // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  My father used to read to me every night… the favorites were “James and the Giant Peach”, and “1 Fish 2 Fish Red Fish Blue Fish”.

• 497 Char // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:46 pm

  One of the first books I read on my own was Disney’s version of Sleeping Beauty.

  Now, my favorite book is a collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales.

• 498 Emily // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:49 pm

  I loved the Little House books

• 499 Lia // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:51 pm

  When I was an infant, my mother’s boss bought me this amazing Disney book. It’s the size of a coffee table book and is golden. It was like a compilation of every Disney cartoon film up to that point, with some stories of production, I believe. I loved that book and would flip through it for hours.

• 500 Cecilia // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:52 pm

  I loved any books as a kid, but Goodnight Moon is the bedtime story that stands out most for me.

• 501 Reena // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:58 pm

  I love the Amelia Bedelia books…yes I still love them!!
  Please give books any time you have to buy a gift for a child!! It is the greatest gift you can give.

• 502 kduplessis // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:58 pm

  Favorite bedtime story-ones my father made up! He’s 82 and still making up stories.

• 503 Martina Martinez // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:59 pm

  I love Love You Forever. I read it just b/c every once in a while.

• 504 RubyTuesday // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:09 pm

  Little House on the Prairie influenced me to major in History! Also Narnia and reading Babar books with my Grandpa.

• 505 MC // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:12 pm

  Anne of Green Gables for me! No heroine better than Anne Shirley.

• 506 Donick // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:13 pm

  I’ve always been a big fan of comic books… from Asterix, to Garfield, to Archie (and so many others!!!). I’m 34 now and I still enjoy reading them in the newspaper. As far as a story, I have to say I’ve always enjoyed “Tom Sawyer” (who now that I think of it, must have been a big influence on me… FREEDOM!!!!)

• 507 Jamie // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:25 pm

  Loved reading Curious George as a kid!

• 508 missmarjie // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:28 pm

  I loved Richard Scarrey and Goodnight Moon.

• 509 Mike // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:32 pm

  My parents always read to us. I can remember the Jungle Book and loved it!!!

• 510 Donna // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  I have very fond memories of reading stories to my young son. He always wanted 3-4 stories before he could sleep. He now LOVES to read, and has a very large personal library. Books are wonderful!

• 511 Ellin // Dec 24, 2008 at 5:58 pm

  My father made up bed time stories for us. The main character was : Boo Hoo MayBelle, who always got in trouble, and then out in the nick of time.

• 512 Jennifer // Dec 24, 2008 at 6:17 pm

  My mother read to me all of the time. As an itty bitty, one of my favorites was Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel.

• 513 Kimmie // Dec 24, 2008 at 6:18 pm

  Goodnight Moon. :)

• 514 Julia // Dec 24, 2008 at 6:35 pm

  My favorite book was the giving tree!

• 515 Susan // Dec 24, 2008 at 6:48 pm

  I absolutely loved two stories as a child. My favorites were The Tawny Scrawny Lion and the Pokey Little Puppy. I am a believer that reading to children is magical. It encourages imagination and creativity. I teach middle school reading and there’s a world of difference between children who are read to and children who aren’t.

• 516 Regina // Dec 24, 2008 at 6:56 pm

  I loved the Tawny Scrawny Lion as a child and even learned to love carrots as a result of the book!

• 517 Cassie // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:03 pm

  Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs was my fave as a little kid. It was fun to imagine cotton candy fog and pea soup rain.

• 518 Endymion107 // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:05 pm

  I DO COCAINE!!!!! KUH KUH KUH YEEEEEAAAH!!

• 519 Sara // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:09 pm

  The Sneeches by Dr. Seuss! My mom always tells the story that I would tell people I could read when I was 3, and then bust out this book. Reality of it was she had read it to me so many times I had it memorized.

  My niece is getting this book from me for Christmas.

• 520 sb // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:14 pm

  cloudy with a chance of meatballs!!!!

• 521 KittyM // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:16 pm

  The Wishing Chair, by Enid Blyton.

• 522 Amar // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:33 pm

  I heard the terrible, horrible, no good very bad day.

• 523 Liz // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:42 pm

  Goodnight Gorilla is a family favorite.

• 524 Lisa // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:52 pm

  There Is A Monster at the End of This Book was my very favorite as a child! Scary and fun!

• 525 Carole Kennedy // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:53 pm

  I loved reading, “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, as long as I’m living, my baby, you’ll be.”

• 526 Tricia Polley // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:55 pm

  Animals should DEFINITELY not wear clothing. My niece’s favorite…

• 527 Holly // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:02 pm

  I loved any book I could get my hands on.

• 528 Carrie // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:02 pm

  I couldn’t get enough of the book about the big dog that turned out to be a little dog and the story about the little house. Luckily, my mother saved them, and now I read them to my little girls.

• 529 Maris // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  I loved all the tales of Beatrix Potter.

• 530 Mitali // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:08 pm

  I think I can, I think I can…I think I read the “Little Engine that Could” at least 243 times in a row as a child.

• 531 MsTriste // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:17 pm

  I read to my now adult daughters every night before bedtime. One of our favorites was “Owl Moon” by Jane Nolen. Both my daughters always read and wrote far above their grade level, and I credit the bedtime reading.

• 532 fleming // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:21 pm

  “rhoda straight and true”

• 533 MsTriste // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:29 pm

  Typo in my post: ‘Owl Moon’ was written by Jane Yolen (in case anybody is interested in getting it for their kids).

  Since I’m on the subject of our favorite bedtime stories, I’ll mention Dr. Seuss. I’m now reminiscing about many of his books; I read them so many times I know them almost by heart.

• 534 S.H. // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:32 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was always readings from Edith Hamilton’s “Myths and Mythology”. I loved hearing about the squabbling Greek Gods.

• 535 Drake // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:42 pm

  My favorite stories as a kid were the adventures of Hank the Cowdog. They used to be so entertaining.

• 536 Dean // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:44 pm

  Dr. Seuss all the way!

• 537 Carol // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:48 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. My mom would read it to me every night!

• 538 Cassie // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:50 pm

  My favorite bedtime stories were from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein.

• 539 mike // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:52 pm

  bible stories

• 540 JIMMY // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:54 pm

  encyclopedia brown stories

• 541 Chy // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:54 pm

  The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton

• 542 Marion // Dec 24, 2008 at 8:56 pm

  I like to read biographies and autobiographies.

• 543 Emily // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:03 pm

  I loved the Little House in the Big Woods series.

• 544 theKillerKitten // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:09 pm

  The Monster At the End of This Book was my favorite. I love-love-loved it. :-)

• 545 joeschmoe // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:14 pm

  Where the Red Fern grows.

• 546 edoubleyou // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:15 pm

  YAY books!
  shel silverstein books and twas the night before christmas - the best!

• 547 Gretchen // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:36 pm

  I loved the Black Cauldron series.

• 548 Jessica // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:37 pm

  I just talked a friend into giving her 8-year-old brother one of my favorite books for Christmas: My Side of the Mountain. Had he been a girl, I would have hawked the Little House books.

• 549 Gyro // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:39 pm

  Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

• 550 Lisa // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:43 pm

  Any book by Ezra Jack Keates worked for me as well as A Charlie Brown Christmas.

• 551 Kelly // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:51 pm

  My dad always read us The Boxcar Children series of books at night. He would use funny voices and make up silly things.

• 552 Jenn // Dec 24, 2008 at 9:59 pm

  My fondest memories are of my parents reading Dr. Seuss books to me. “Green Eggs and Ham” was my favourite!

• 553 Carol // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:15 pm

  The best Christmas present I received as a child was a book. I still have many of them. Now I love to read to my Granddaughter. Sometimes 3 books at bedtime. When my godson was young, he loved to hear “the Monster at the end of the Book”. And, I loved to read it to him, with sound effects.

• 554 April // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:18 pm

  I loved soooo many books! Some special favorites were the Little House on the Prairie (they were based on real life!) and also all of Beverly Cleary’s.

  I can’t wait until my kids are old enough for chapter books and I can start to share these with them.

• 555 scott // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:28 pm

  The Borrowers and Dr. Doolittle were the greatest!

• 556 AH // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:30 pm

  Winkin’, Blinkin’, and Nod. Gorgeous.

• 557 CT // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:35 pm

  I used to read anything I could get my hands on. I loved cats though, so one of my “young adult” favorites was the “Cat Who…” series by Lillian Jackson Braun.

  Thank you for donating books!

• 558 cloverest // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:36 pm

  My mom used to read to my two siblings and me the Happy Hollisters series, books about a mid-century family solving mysteries together.

• 559 amanda // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:40 pm

  Goodnight, Moon and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

• 560 Alex // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:45 pm

  I loved all of these books!

• 561 Dori // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  I always loved to read and loved reading to my children and now to my grandchildren. My favorite book as a child was about Brownies-but that was a million years ago!!

• 562 Polly // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:52 pm

  I loved any of the Golden Books when I was young, and then when older loved all the Nancy Drew books. Reading was a big part of my family’s time together - thanks for making books a part of another child’s life.

• 563 Caitlyn // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:54 pm

  My dad memorized “Too Many Daves” by Dr. Seuss, and always recited it the exact same way. It’s still a favorite.

• 564 Bren // Dec 24, 2008 at 10:55 pm

  I loved Shel Silverstein’s books of poems when I was a child.

• 565 Joel // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:03 pm

  Where the Wild Things Are! Best kids book ever. I really liked Shel Silverstein also.

• 566 Riki // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:09 pm

  Yes… The Missing Piece.

• 567 Matthew White // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:21 pm

  My favorite bedtime story to read to my niece and nephew is ‘And Tango Makes Three’!

• 568 themadthinker // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:24 pm

  Mostly, my fondest memories are of Treasure Island and the Chronicles of Narnia. Got me started on a lifetime of reading.

• 569 James // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:39 pm

  OOOOO The chubby hippo, Marcel, and his delicious cream-puffs!

• 570 Angie // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:42 pm

  my fav bedtime story was Goodnight Moon!

• 571 Karen // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:54 pm

  Woohoo for books! I love Goodnight Moon :-)

• 572 Amy // Dec 24, 2008 at 11:58 pm

  I loved A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories!

• 573 Megan // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:02 am

  When I was little, my father would read me Babar books. When I got older it was Jane Eyre and the Mayor of Casterbridge. It was really some of the most wonderful times I ever had.

• 574 Noel // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:04 am

  I love “Where the Wild Things Are”!

• 575 Laura // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:11 am

  Corduroy! I still wish toys would come alive when humans aren’t watching. I credit story time as a child for my current imagination.

• 576 Stephanie // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:34 am

  I remember reading Dr Seuss’s Hop on Pop as my first book. My mom and I read it so much that I memorized all the words before really learning how to read.

• 577 Sarah // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:37 am

  My favorite books to read when I was a child were the books that I read with my mom and dad. Didn’t matter which book.

• 578 Hannah KK // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:38 am

  It will always be the Carl books. That dog was classy.

• 579 Dody // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:38 am

  I can’t imagine not having books in my life. They are one of my favorite things to give as gifts.

• 580 Anne // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:42 am

  “Horton Hears A Who” was and will forever be one of my favorites. Definitely a message we can and should all get behind.

• 581 Corbin // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:54 am

  “Where the Wild Things Are” and the Berenstain Bears series were some of my favorite bedtime stories.

• 582 Cheryl // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:59 am

  I loved reading Dr. Seus and Seasme Street book to my children..As they got older we moved on to chapter books.

• 583 Laurel // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:07 am

  A very, very fond memory is my mother reading me the first six Anne of Green Gables books.

• 584 Jenny // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:14 am

  My favorite was always Peter Pan.

• 585 lyn // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:15 am

  the joy of reading, once discovered, is a gift that lasts a lifetime. It brings you comfort in times of sorrw, friends and companionship in times of loneliness and enlightenment. Reading IS fun-damental.

• 586 Victoria // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:35 am

  The Secret Garden was the best!

• 587 Carol K // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:42 am

  My bed’s headboard was a bookshelf. I could reach back, grab a Little Golden Book, and read at night. All three sections of that headboard were filled with Little Golden Books.

• 588 Michelle // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:54 am

  my favorite story was about a man who sold hats on his head and the monkeys kept trying to steal them. oh those monkeys, so mischievous.

• 589 Vickilyn // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:55 am

  Loved The Secret Garden, Where The Wild Things Are, Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs & Ham…favorite was Horton Hears A Who though.

• 590 Claire // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:07 am

  My favorite books were the Dr. Seuss books.

• 591 Marla // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:08 am

  I don’t actually recall which story in my youth was my favorite, but nevertheless it was always welcome to hear one, especially during the cold winter months in the East. Now I live in the West and I read them to other children. I hope this site gets the books they need.

• 592 Martine // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:09 am

  HARRY POTTER IS THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• 593 Jake // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:14 am

  I like reading books about surfing.

• 594 April // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:23 am

  The first book I ever read all by myself was Dr. Suess’s Green Eggs and Ham. My father wrote the date on the inside cover it, and I’ll never throw out my copy of the book. “I love green eggs and ham.”

• 595 Laura // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:26 am

  My parents read the entire Nancy Drew series to me and my sister every night before bed. I’m starting the Little House series with my own daughter in the next few weeks, and can’t wait.

• 596 Kate // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:30 am

  The Paper Bag Princess!!!

• 597 Alice // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:35 am

  I used to love the Little Golden Books. Wonder where those all went…

• 598 Caitlin // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:51 am

  I learned how to write my name when i was three just so i could get a library card–I’ve grown up absolutely in love with books and wish more people were fortunate enough to grow up with a love for reading.

  One of my favorites is Matilda. Anne of Green Gables, Alice in Wonderland, Addy, pretty much any story about a strong, smart girl facing adversity of some nature I read and loved as a child.

• 599 Caroline // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:56 am

  I had so many favorites as a child but I absolutely loved anything by Roald Dahl. My favorite was “Fantastic Mr. Fox”.

• 600 Glenda // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:03 am

  Good Night Rubber Duckie - Ernie searches all over to find his Rubber Duckie before bed

• 601 Richard // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:04 am

  we have so many favorites, but our warmest moments are had with Goodnight Moon. Not to sat What if you Give a Moose a Muffin or even reading Bob Books together aren’t priceless moments. Our kids can’t get enough of ‘tell up stories’, true life stories recounting our lives as kids .

• 602 Milton // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:05 am

  I liked making them up

• 603 Jonesy // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:06 am

  Comic books with a flashlight under the covers

• 604 Maria // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:20 am

  My favorite is “Goodnight Moon.”

• 605 Carolyn // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:26 am

  “The Velveteen Rabbit” and “The Big Red Barn” were all great ones.

• 606 Kelli // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:44 am

  I had a set of Disney Encyclopedias and I read the Fairy Tales and Greek Mythology books over and over again. I still have the entire set and hope to someday share them with children of my own.

• 607 Derek B. // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:13 am

  When we were kids my mom made up a character called the Mugawumpus who was a harmless but ugly creature who lived in a swamp and had many fabulous adventures with the kids who visited him.

  I think my favorite book she used to read us was Pippi Longstocking. She had pirates treasure, what could be better than that!

• 608 Carrie G. // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:17 am

  I loved any book with Pooh in it.

• 609 Sami // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:50 am

  Green Eggs and Ham all the way! because I am Sam!

• 610 Koshie // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:52 am

  I looooovvvved Where the Wild Things Are when I was little. When I got older, Nancy Drew and Laura Ingalls Wilder kept me enthralled for hours a day.

• 611 The Armstrongs // Dec 25, 2008 at 5:17 am

  We LOVE all of the girly books like Fancy Nancy, Eloise, Olivia. Great for all of those little Divas in your life!!!

• 612 Tonya // Dec 25, 2008 at 5:41 am

  As a child I remember making up stories with my sister. We would end up giggling and getting in trouble every time! Then our Mother would come in and say our prayers with us.

• 613 Turtle // Dec 25, 2008 at 5:53 am

  My favorite books as a child were things like Brother’s Grimm fairy tales, and anything about baby animals. I also loved all those cheesy teen horror series.

• 614 george&the giant peach // Dec 25, 2008 at 6:18 am

  Sendak’s . . . Where the Wild Things Are . . . and so many more . . . from Dahl and Seuss . . . along with any classic fairytale . . . like The Snow Queen . . were my “favorite” books . . .

• 615 Dedene // Dec 25, 2008 at 6:20 am

  My favorite bedtime stories were the ones that my Dad made up. He had a whole series about Joey and his talking duck! Wonderful.

• 616 Julia // Dec 25, 2008 at 7:21 am

  My favorite stories were European fairy tales, and animal stories by James Herriot.

• 617 Hermane // Dec 25, 2008 at 8:59 am

  If You Give A Mouse A Cookie was a favorite at our house, that and The Little Prince when I got a bit older.

• 618 sarah // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:11 am

  I had a great book called “Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles.”

• 619 Lise // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:14 am

  All of them… I loved books (and still do!) But mostly Roald Dahl. :D

• 620 dcfullest // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:21 am

  I loved the Country Rabbit and the Golden Shoes!

• 621 Lindsay // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:26 am

  Goodnight Moon, all the way.

• 622 Linda // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:52 am

  I love the Twelve Dancing Prinesses. Also I
  some many Nancy Drew. Today I still love mysteries.
  Also for my own sons the memories of reading
  Beverly Cleary books are so very special.

• 623 Fresh Peaches // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:59 am

  My favorite was always Who’s a Pest?

  http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Pest-Homer-Crosby-Bonsall/dp/0064440990/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230217148&sr=1-7

• 624 andria // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:00 am

  Yay for bedtime stories!

• 625 MEW // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:13 am

  I loved the Polar Express. We would drink hot chocolate and ring bells. :)

• 626 Jessica // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:25 am

  My favorite books as a kid were the ones written by Roald Dahl.

• 627 Stephanie // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:53 am

  Tuck Everlasting was always beside my bed growing up, as was The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. I still take them out and read them.

• 628 tederick // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:54 am

  My favourite story book was always Where the Wild Things Are. (Still is.)

  My dad used to make up stories about a giant green monster who lived outside my window called Geemo. They were way better.

• 629 Leslie // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:00 pm

  Books have always been my friends. :-)

• 630 Jess // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:13 pm

  Pippi Longstocking is still my hero.

• 631 Laura // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:19 pm

  I remember reading The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe with my mom, alternating chapters, she’d read one aloud and then I’d read one aloud. These days I read to my kids every night and we like to make up lots of stories in the car or on the train or whenever they get antsy pantsy!

• 632 Kara // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:26 pm

  Goodnight Moon FTW!

• 633 Carolyn // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:27 pm

  My favorite book was The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. My brother used to read to me and do all the voices! :-)

• 634 Kea // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:36 pm

  Chronicles of Narnia FOREVER.

• 635 Ferdinand // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:36 pm

  My favorite book was The Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss. Even now I try to recite that book without messing up.

• 636 Rachel Pomeranz // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:36 pm

  The Legend of the Blue Bonnet by Tommie DePaola. It made me cry, but it taught a really important lesson.

• 637 Kerri // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:38 pm

  Well my favorite book when i was little was of course Goodnight Moon, but one of my favorite children’s stories is Click Clack Moo…. haha read it!

• 638 Mary // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  le petit prince, hands down! its still amazing and more in depth years later!

• 639 Mimi // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:45 pm

  The Berenstein Bears. Holla!

• 640 Jessica // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:51 pm

  Mine was ctually a children’s picture dictionary!

• 641 CJ // Dec 25, 2008 at 12:57 pm

  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by far

• 642 Eddie // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:05 pm

  The Berenstein Bears in “Sibling Rivalry.” Funny thing is I think my brother ended up stealing it from me..

• 643 Barrett // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:20 pm

  Where the Wild Things Are

• 644 Chris // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:28 pm

  Fantastic Mr. Fox

• 645 Sara B // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:36 pm

  I loved listening to any of the Berenstain Bears stories!

• 646 Emilia // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:41 pm

  i loved in the night kitchen, maurice sendak

• 647 SBB // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:41 pm

  Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney

• 648 Mike // Dec 25, 2008 at 1:49 pm

  The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

  Such a clever and well written book!

• 649 Clare // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:00 pm

  The Giving Tree still makes me cry!

• 650 sk // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:03 pm

  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. And anything by Enid Blyton!

• 651 Sheila // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:05 pm

  I loved the Princess Bride! Mum always used to read it to me.. she must have read it a thousand times

• 652 Kat Binns // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:11 pm

  Arabian Tales is a classic.

• 653 Lauren // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:14 pm

  I always loved the Bunnicula tales when I was little.

• 654 Bryan // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:23 pm

  I always loved the Henry Huggins series, that was always my childhood fave.

• 655 MG // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:23 pm

  When I was really young the first books I ever read were the Mr. Men series.

• 656 Eva // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:30 pm

  To me it was hands down Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Nothing ever beat the mad tea party for me. As a matter of fact, I still go around asking people why a raven is like a writing desk.

• 657 Bryan // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:30 pm

  Oh and I forgot my big Disney book of stories, that was the one my big brother would read to me… thanks Terry.

• 658 Holly // Dec 25, 2008 at 2:31 pm

  I loved anything I could get my parents to read to me. I especially loved curling up with my sister on the lazy boy with my dad and Good Night, Moon.

• 659 Vicki // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:03 pm

  Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham and, of course, The Cat in the Hat. I still enjoy them.

• 660 Jon // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:10 pm

  I would have to say The Bremen Town Musicians was my favorite….

• 661 caroline // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:13 pm

  definitely The Hobbit!!

• 662 David Michael // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:14 pm

  This time of year, How the Grinch stole Christmas is a true classic. Dr. Seuss was an amazing author, and we are lucky to have so many of his books to choose from.

• 663 Ahhh, kid stories. // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:28 pm

  I used to love Uncle Wiggley and the gang when I was a kid. :)

• 664 Siri // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:42 pm

  I always have loved any Roald Dahl book, but especially The Witches.

• 665 Sam // Dec 25, 2008 at 3:47 pm

  My favourite book was Stellaluna :)

• 666 Susie // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:02 pm

  The very first book I read by myself was “Good Night, Moon.” It will always be a favorite.

• 667 mateo // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:14 pm

  all the narnia books!

• 668 Kate // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:17 pm

  oh i loved anything the chronicle of narnia books and the wizard of oz books

• 669 Catherine // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:23 pm

  We had a really ridiculous set of Sesame Street books full of little stories and activities and comics. They were awesome for bedtime. I also loved anything by Dr Seuss.

• 670 Brandy // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:41 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was The Enchanted Woods, by Enid Blyton.

• 671 Megan // Dec 25, 2008 at 4:53 pm

  Mercer Mayer’s Bedtime stories, Where the Wild Things Are, Alice in Wonderland, and anything and everything by Roald Dahl. Oh! can’t forget Shel Silverstein, too!

• 672 Carlyn // Dec 25, 2008 at 5:49 pm

  striga nona,where the wild things are, goodnight moon, the missing piece, and all of eric carle

• 673 Anne // Dec 25, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  I loved Little Golden Books and made sure my daughter had them too. I also loved when the R.I.F. (Reading is Fundamental) truck came to my elementary school. Free Books!! Hurray!!

• 674 Stacie // Dec 25, 2008 at 6:12 pm

  I loved Clifford the Big Red Dog! My favorite was the one where he was a small puppy.

• 675 Jen // Dec 25, 2008 at 6:16 pm

  Too many to list, but the first one was always Goodnight Moon, it led to all the others!

• 676 Wesley101 // Dec 25, 2008 at 6:42 pm

  I can’t remember all the books read to me long ago. I didn’t have a happy childhood, so ‘Sinbad’ stories appealed to me ’cause I could imagine escaping to various adventures.

• 677 allison // Dec 25, 2008 at 6:45 pm

  Laura Ingalls Wilder books for the win!

• 678 Cheezi // Dec 25, 2008 at 7:27 pm

  Pinocchio! It was also the first book I learned to read. (:

• 679 Maggie // Dec 25, 2008 at 7:52 pm

  I used to hide Nancy Drew books inside my text books for school and read them instead.

• 680 Melissa // Dec 25, 2008 at 7:58 pm

  My dad read Mr Popper’s Penguins to me aloud. It remains a very fond memory.

• 681 Brian // Dec 25, 2008 at 7:59 pm

  I like to read books, and still shun textbooks for fiction.

• 682 Renee // Dec 25, 2008 at 8:34 pm

  My mother read the Dorothy and the Wizzard of Oz to me as a youngster and I loved it. When I was 10 years old I had pneumonia and was confined to bedrest for over a month. My mother found an entire series of the Wizzard of Oz and it became my favorite way to escape from the illness and solitude.

• 683 Lola // Dec 25, 2008 at 8:53 pm

  Instead of wanting my mom to read to me, apparently my 4 year old self would demand to read a bedtime story to my parents before going to bed.

• 684 Athena // Dec 25, 2008 at 8:53 pm

  No favorites that I can recall, but I love reading Stellaluna to my niece.

• 685 Jen // Dec 25, 2008 at 9:24 pm

  My favorite story when I was a child was “The Monster at the end of the book” by Grover. I also loved “Twas’ the night before Christmas”.

• 686 Kate // Dec 25, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  ” A Child’s Garden of Verses” and “Alice in Wonderland”
  Still love ‘em!

• 687 Sean // Dec 25, 2008 at 9:50 pm

  Dr Suise books are always great

• 688 bridget leahy // Dec 25, 2008 at 9:52 pm

  After 30 years, I still remember my first book, 1, 2,3 achoo! Books are so important to children!

• 689 Vittoria // Dec 25, 2008 at 9:57 pm

  Madeleine L’Engle! Harry Potter!

• 690 Christa Allan // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:05 pm

  GOODNIGHT MOON

• 691 caseykay68 // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:25 pm

  The christmas story my mom read to my brother and that I remember fondly as being a fun time of togetherness is “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”

  Books rule :)

• 692 doryb // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:38 pm

  My favourite was always Anne of Green Gables!!

• 693 jocelyn // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:39 pm

  Loved P.D. Eastman books

• 694 CRG // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:42 pm

  One of my earliest and fondest childhood memories is of my mother reading me Goodnight Moon for the umpteenth time.

• 695 lucie // Dec 25, 2008 at 10:50 pm

  the very hungry caterpillar was my favorite as a kid.. he got a tummyache from eating too many sweets, much like i have now.

• 696 Michelle // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:05 pm

  I don’t remember a specific book being read to me, but as a child, I loved reading the Nancy Drew books.

• 697 Rusty // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:20 pm

  Books are awesome, that is all.

• 698 cmm // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:24 pm

  Always loved looking for the mouse in Goodnight Moon…. :)

• 699 marie // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:35 pm

  i loved goodnight moon!

• 700 Kelsey // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:36 pm

  I loved “Madeleine” in addition to everything mentioned above!

• 701 amanda // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:41 pm

  I loved the Seasame Street book _There’s a Monster at the End of This Book!_

• 702 april marie // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:43 pm

  my mom used to read peter rabbit. a book she got from her grandmother. i loved it and still do. when i have children i will read them that story as well :) merry christmas!

• 703 Melanie // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:44 pm

  I loved Berenstein Bears get a job.

• 704 ohana photographers // Dec 25, 2008 at 11:51 pm

  loved the velveteen rabbit as a kid and where the wild things are. always made it easier to go night night :)

• 705 cayllan // Dec 26, 2008 at 12:11 am

  I loved the Balloon Tree.

• 706 nan // Dec 26, 2008 at 12:13 am

  anything by dr seuss. i learned to appreciate absurdity at a young age, and it’s served me well in dealing with adult life.

• 707 Mobbsey // Dec 26, 2008 at 12:16 am

  I LOVE Dairy of a Wombat.

• 708 Tamara // Dec 26, 2008 at 12:43 am

  Our family loves Green Eggs and Ham and Roald Dahl

• 709 2pint // Dec 26, 2008 at 12:58 am

  The Phantom Tollbooth. Great story! Rich, imaginative characters, fantastic settings, yet still had room for action, emotion, and a plot that keeps you guessing.

• 710 Raspberry Swirl // Dec 26, 2008 at 1:04 am

  Bunnicula. And all those spooky Apple paperbacks, like Wait Tille Helen Comes.

• 711 heather // Dec 26, 2008 at 1:06 am

  The Little House!
  Oh I remember that story being read to me a few times each night as I was growing up. I plan to read it to my kids in the future. :)

• 712 Pami // Dec 26, 2008 at 4:11 am

  I love “I’ll Love You Forever”. I’ve read it to ALL my kids. Now that they’re older we still sing the song.
  I’ll love you for ever.
  I’ll like you for always.
  As long as I’m living,
  My baby you’ll be.

  We use the tuned for “Please Love Me Again” by John Denver.

• 713 marla // Dec 26, 2008 at 11:49 am

  Books give kids the imagination to be anything and go anywhere the want to go…. keep reading and imagine everything!

• 714 Paul Warner // Dec 26, 2008 at 12:59 pm

  I loved Teddy Ruxpin reading to me at bedtime.

  How about a doll that tells Shel Silverstein stories set to music? It could project images on the wall or use an LCD screen for a book.

  The doll could be a turtle named “Shell Silverstein”.

• 715 Ted Hornick // Dec 26, 2008 at 1:18 pm

  I never finished The Wind in the Willows. I’m so ashamed!

• 716 Cheryl // Dec 26, 2008 at 2:18 pm

  As a very young child I loved “Make Way for Ducklings” and “The Pokey Little Puppy”. Those books were the start of a lifelong love of reading.

• 717 Xhevaire McCool // Dec 26, 2008 at 3:42 pm

  I always loved “Mr. Popper’s Penguins”. It began my love for penguins. Mr. Popper listens to this radio show and wins a contest. His prize was penguins! They mailed him penguins and he put them in his fridge. I thought it was the greatest thing — I now tease my husband to buy me some penguins to keep in our fridge!! :o)

• 718 Jenn L // Dec 26, 2008 at 4:07 pm

  I loved Sleeping Beauty as a child and then when I was in grade school, I became obsessed with the Nancy Drew Detective stories and Sweet Valley books among many other books. I was a little bookworm!

• 719 Jennifer F. // Dec 26, 2008 at 4:50 pm

  I loved Amelia Bedelia books, and Curious George, and Winnie the Pooh.

  Amelia Bedelia was always well intentioned, but still managed to get it all wrong.
  Curious George for the mischief he could get into, and still be loved for it.
  Winnie the Pooh, Well…. who couldn’t love Winnie the Pooh?

• 720 Patrick Stewart // Dec 26, 2008 at 5:15 pm

  My apologies to the child who will not recieve a book for Christmas this year because this comment is a day late.

  I will make a note so this will not happen again next year.

• 721 Lisa T. // Dec 27, 2008 at 7:47 pm

  My oldest daughter’s favorite book was “Tikki Tikki Tembo”. My younger daughter remembers a silly book called “Bears in Pairs”. Right now my favorite authors for the preschoolers I teach are Robert Munsch and Kevin Henkes. They’re as much fun for adults as kids

• 722 Natasha // Dec 28, 2008 at 1:38 am

  My favorite book was by Doris Burns, Andrew Henry’s Meadow..at some point, we all thought about what would it be like if we ran away and created our own home,world,etc. Andrew Henry is a child and an “inventor.” It is a great story with a wonderful ending. I bought the book for my children and read it to them.

• 723 Toni // Dec 28, 2008 at 3:07 pm

  When I was younger, I pretty much just loved EVERY Disney book there was. I had all of them and loved reading through them a million times. Even when I was younger and didn’t actually know hw to read I looked through the pictures and knew the stories from the movies =]

• 724 Travis // Dec 29, 2008 at 12:24 am

  Have to give my vote to The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A classic and fav from my childhood.

• 725 Patti // Dec 29, 2008 at 12:28 am

  My brother used to tell me stories and make them up, he was a really good writer, so was my sister. The best part was that after reading a book they would “create” the sequel and tell more of the story because I simply never wanted it to end! I think that’s what makes all the Disney stories fun now, they keep us enthralled with the sequel!

• 726 Chris Lugo // Dec 29, 2008 at 12:36 am

  This is fantastic!

  My brother would tell me stories he made up, as well. He had a way of incorporating us two, as well as all of our favorite toys. He has such an imagination, and I hope he writes a children’s book one day.

• 727 Nick // Dec 29, 2008 at 12:46 am

  Always read Thomas the Tank Engine to my son. At 18 he still has all the books and toys as keepsakes.

• 728 Chuck Lasker // Dec 29, 2008 at 1:14 am

  No book was better read aloud than a Dr. Seuss book. The mix of rhymes, then no rhymes, kept the mind working, and the visuals were ahead of their time.

• 729 jennifer // Dec 29, 2008 at 10:58 am

  Thank you for doing this. Books make the greatest gifts.

• 730 Pam in Lex // Dec 29, 2008 at 11:17 am

  I used to love the Curious George books…I loved seeing what kind of mischief he would get himself into next!

• 731 Mike // Dec 29, 2008 at 1:42 pm

  I vividly remember my father reading me The Hardy Boys mysteries before bed. Good memories.

• 732 Jane // Dec 29, 2008 at 4:13 pm

  My favorite bedtime story was probably How My Parents Learned to Eat.

• 733 Meghan // Dec 29, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  One of my absolute favorites was a Tomie dePaola book, “Now One Foot, Now The Other.”

  This is a fabulous cause and I wish you all the best of luck. My life would not be quite as rich were it not for good books! What a phenomenal thing to share with others.

• 734 Sharon // Dec 29, 2008 at 5:47 pm

  My favorite bedtime stories were from The Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

• 735 Christopher // Dec 30, 2008 at 1:20 am

  The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks. Great book, beautiful writing.

• 736 Gilbekat // Dec 30, 2008 at 10:51 am

  I loved “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. My Dad would read that to us almost every night. Soon it got to the point where we would just recite it back.

• 737 K Tvarok // Dec 30, 2008 at 5:51 pm

  Peter Pan is my favorite bed time story, because I’ll never grow up!

• 738 jean27 // Dec 31, 2008 at 1:06 pm

  I love to read all types of books to my grands but The Little Engine is my favorite

• 739 Patti B // Dec 31, 2008 at 1:27 pm

  The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

• 740 pb // Dec 31, 2008 at 1:29 pm

  Bedtime for Frances

• 741 video // Dec 31, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  Happy new year

• 742 Cory // Jan 2, 2009 at 1:29 pm

  I loved the Berenstein Bears books when I was younger. If there was a major in college that was centered around the Berenstein Bears I would consider it.

• 743 Theresa // Jan 2, 2009 at 2:17 pm

  My favorite book as a child was Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. The illustrations are spectacular!

• 744 katherine // Jan 3, 2009 at 10:00 am

  My husband read our boys the Narnia books and it was Magic.
  I read my grandchildren “Good Night Moon” and the “Very Quiet Cricket”

• 745 Sarah J. // Jan 3, 2009 at 1:05 pm

  My favorite stories as a child were The Jillian Jiggs & Amelia Bedelia books. My mom read them with such enthusiasm! I can still recite them as she did by memory to this day!

• 746 andy // Jan 3, 2009 at 1:07 pm

  i love books. my favorite books growing up were dr. seuss stories.

• 747 tamara // Jan 3, 2009 at 2:43 pm

  Nothing can replace the connectedness of reading with children, the promotion of imagination and skill.

• 748 Sabrina // Jan 3, 2009 at 6:45 pm

  I might have missed it but if not! I love to read to my 2 year old daughter and she will not go to be without at least one book read to her! Her current favorites are Sandra Boynton’s “Horns to Toes” and Bob Shea “Dinosaur vs Bedtime”

• 749 bean // Jan 3, 2009 at 7:42 pm

  Ramona Quimby, Age 8!

• 750 Tabish // Jan 4, 2009 at 2:33 pm

  My favorite story would be Peter Pan . What magical times…

• 751 Kathy // Jan 4, 2009 at 3:47 pm

  My favorite story to read to my children was “There’s a Monster at the End of This Book” starring the Sesame Street Monster, Grover. It was lots of fun.

• 752 Carolyn Stinnett // Jan 5, 2009 at 10:02 am

  I loved all of the Little Golden Books and adored the Bobbsey Twins. When I discovered the first book, my Mother read every one to me. We also loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder series. I was fortunate to have a Mom who read to me every day!

• 753 KGJ // Jan 5, 2009 at 10:53 am

  As a child my favorite bedtime stories: Little Women, Wind in the Willows, Heidi, The Little Princess.

  At Christmastime with my boys: We started in early December with a chapter each night of A Christmas Carol. Also loved How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Polar Express and of course - the nativity narrative from Luke on Chirstmas Eve.

• 754 kate donegan // Jan 5, 2009 at 11:26 am

  Favorite book to read to the class are all of Jan Brett books, The Hat, The Mitten, The Gingerbread Baby.

• 755 Gerry // Jan 5, 2009 at 12:59 pm

  When I was a child there were no computer chips or fancy additions to books. My favorite book was a book of Grimm’s fairy tales and nursery rhymes with simple noises like beeping a horn and ringing a bell. My older sister would read to me and I would do the noises.

• 756 Sue // Jan 7, 2009 at 11:35 am

  I loved reading Richard Scarry’s book, The Best Word Book Ever, to my boys. They loved identifying all the objects in the book and it helped them talk at a very young age. I enjoyed watching their enthusiasm. As a mom, reading was such a heartwarming experience to share with my boys.

• 757 Cat // Jan 21, 2009 at 7:11 am

  I always loved Roald Dahl’s books as a child. My favourite was The Twits

• 758 Sue // Jan 24, 2009 at 7:49 pm

  nice post, thanks
  The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks. Great book, beautiful writing.

• 759 Randi // Feb 2, 2009 at 4:46 pm

  Every night before bed my dad would read to me- sometimes one book, sometimes two. Over time I have realized just how important that was to our relationship, the development of my mind, and the blossoming of my creativity. It’s a ritual I’ve distinctly made myself aware of continuing.

• 760 steve // Feb 7, 2009 at 5:38 pm

  My favorite disney film as a kid was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

• 761 Lexismart // Feb 11, 2009 at 9:47 pm

  cool post, thank you !

• 762 legend of mir // Feb 20, 2009 at 6:21 pm

  Good stuff,
  Thanks
  - legend

• 763 RaiulBaztepo // Mar 28, 2009 at 6:29 pm

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  Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
  PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language ;)
  See you!
  Your, Raiul Baztepo

• 764 PiterKokoniz // Apr 7, 2009 at 7:12 pm

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• 765 gfjfgj // Apr 15, 2009 at 5:00 am

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• 766 Leslie // May 24, 2009 at 4:06 pm

  My grandmother read us so many stories when we were little. I especially remember a book called “Best Book of Bedtime stories” and a lovely story about a brownie and a pony.

• 767 Margay // May 24, 2009 at 4:11 pm

  I don’t remember my mother reading to me, but I remember reading beneath the covers when I should have been sleeping! My fondest bedtime stories are those centering around reading to my own daughters when they were younger. Their favorite was Goodnight, Moon, and as soon as I was finished reading it, they would say, “Again!” Sometimes I read that book to them five times a night before they’d finally be satisfied.
  Margay

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