Reading books to your kids can be a right pain in arse....

especially when it's the same one over and over, and even worse when it's not particularly well written.

As a father, what I really like are books that either let you get into character (getting laughs off the kids is brilliant) or ones that really flow.

I personally think there are few finer things than reading a book by Dr. Seuss at a fast pace while using a variety of funny voices. Green Eggs and Ham is a particular favourite.
(BinDipper, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:59, 10 replies)

Or Fox in Socks
without making mistakes.

Julia Donaldson books are good for voices too. I especially like Room on the Broom.
(steel_rat Uncloseted lurker, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:04, closed)

Fox In Socks is a real tongue workout.
Mine tend to choose it when I bunged up with a cold, or riddled with mouth ulcers. The swine.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:18, closed)

Star Wars
Im lucky I get to read my son Starwars books one after the other and hes only 3! *dances*
(morrigan456 made sex wee on, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:08, closed)

Have social security been informed that you are totally incapable of producing motile sperm and must therefore be a cuckolded loser?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:49, closed)

Must be all of those years spent stood over a dingy furnace throwing incompetent buffoons, who intend to impress with their arrogant use of the English language, into a fiery pit. Who knew?
(morrigan456 made sex wee on, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 9:12, closed)

That told me.
Fuck knows what it told me. It's barely coherent. But I'm sure I must now have been well and truly told.

Do the kids know their biological dad? Or are you keeping that for when they grow old enough to realise that they're homo sapiens and "daddy" isn't?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 16:07, closed)

the sleep book is the best one.
my daughter's 12 this year and she still adores it.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:14, closed)

I like to attempt some pages in Green Eggs and Ham in a single breath
...my kids think it's funny when I turn blue and pass out.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:23, closed)

I read Stephen King's 'It' to my kids as a bedtime story.. they loved it.
(Freakmandu, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:33, closed)

As a father, what I really like are books that either let you get into character (getting laughs off the kids is brilliant) or ones that really flow

Look out for the "Mr Gum" books, brilliantly silly and plenty of voices. If Friday O'Leary doesn't sound like Eccles then I'm a dutchman's uncle (as I was just saying to my nephew Piet)
(GoodLord doesn't have time for sigs., Wed 11 Jan 2012, 0:07, closed)