I do not read books I devour them, I adore reading and always have and with the birth of my daughter 6 years ago I started reading to her and every night I read two stories at least. I am also really pleased that I have passed my love of books on to my daughters and indeed my eldest has a reading age of a nine year old essentially that means she to cannot wait to find out what will be contained between the pages. So how can I possibly pick ten best childrens books wel essentially I cant however I can give you our favourites and as my children are 4 and 6 I will divide this into pre-school and sharing and then staryting school and then the top ten that I wish ...  Read the complete review

I've always been a bit of a reader myself, and I've always been especially keen on kid's books. There are some amazing ones out there that really help to nurture a positive interest in young children right from a few months of age. Our grandson was mad about 'That's Not My Tractor..." from just five months old, and these days he's probably got more books than all three of my kids had put together at his age! My top ten children's books are based on what I share with the grandson today, rather than kid's books I remember over the years. Most of these are suitable for pre-schoolers. 10. I Forgot to Say I Love You I Forgot to Say I Love You is ...  Read the complete review

As with many folks who've written in this category, I've been an avid book person practically since birth. My parents have photos of me before the age of two sitting "reading" to my stuffed animals and I quickly memorised my favourite stories much to the chagrin of my dad who would occasionally try to skip a page or two at bedtime. Growing up in Canada my list might be a little different than some of yours. But it seems that some books were loved on both sides of the pond! There are many children's books I've come to love as an adult but am limiting myself to ones that were around when I was in fact a child. I'm not listing in order of most to least ...  Read the complete review

I have always been an avid bookworm. From the days of "the yellow house" and "the red house" at infant school right up to modern day housebricks of books. I'm going to exercise boasting rights here and clearly remember being asked to read for the class 2 years below me at infants because I was so advanced for my age. It is the only time in my life, the one and only time that I can profess to be advanced at anything at all so therefore still make sure I get my mileage out of the fact twenty xxx years later!! As such I have a very very long top 30 of childrens books that I absolutely adored, some very young indeed and others once I was able to ...  Read the complete review

As a child, I always loved reading. My Mum used to love embarrassing me by telling everybody that she met that I even read books in the toilet (which wasn't true, by the way!) I started compiling this list with the intention of including some modern stories that my kids enjoy but writing this made me remember so many well-loved classics from my own childhood that there wasn't actually any room for the new stuff! This, then, is a pretty self-indulgent look at some of the many books that I loved as a young girl: 1. Heidi (Johanna Spyri) I have read this book many many times and still have my original paperback copy - complete with loose browning pages taped ...  Read the complete review