One of the absolute pleasures of being a parent is re-discovering wonderful things from your own childhood that you now get the chance to pass on to your own children. Sharing special bedtime stories is one of those treats, as you get to re-read classics and re-discover amazing stories all over again.
Did you read The Hobbit as a child? Do you remember the evocative descriptions of Gollum and his lair? The wonderful images of the deep, dark forest? We all know sharing stories with children is so beneficial for them but it’s an extra treat to have a book like The Hobbit, which parents can enjoy reading just as much as the kids. No need to try and skip pages or read on auto-pilot!
Win a copy of the re-released The Hobbit
To celebrate the re-release of The Hobbit I have three copies of the book to give away to three Nurturestore readers.
To win: leave a comment on this post telling me about a favourite story you remember reading with your parents.
You have until midnight (GMT) on Tuesday 3rd July 2012 to enter. Then I’ll pick three answers that I like the best and the people who left those comments will each win one copy of The Hobbit book. The competition is open to UK residents only. You must leave a way for me to contact you (your e-mail address in the signature box is fine) or your entry will not be counted. I will pass the winner’s details on and The Hobbit team will send the books to the winner.
So tell me: what do you remember reading with your parents when you were a child?
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My parents never read to us as children. I, myself was a voracious reader, reading anything I could get my hands on. During the summer when I was unable to get books to read from our school library, I would read the collection of Reader’s Digest Condensed books my parents owned.
When our first two children were both under 2, my husband and I began taking them to the library. We didn’t learn the importance of reading to them until a little bit later. When they were just over 1 and 2 and #3 was on the way, we read the book The Read-aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease. It was such an inspiration to us! We started purchasing second hand books for our home library and I began reading stacks, huge stacks of books to our children every day. Our seven children now enjoy having mom and dad read aloud. What a wonderful way to start our days, or end our days!
I am not an entrant in your giveaway, as I am outside the UK, I just wanted to comment on your post!
What a timely competition
Last weekend I took my young daughter to visit my childhood school (not been back in over 30years) and I told her about Miss Cole, my primary school teacher for 4 consecutive years, who introduced me to the joy of reading. ‘The Hobbit’ was one of the first reads she ever recommended to me. I can’t wait to share pages of books like The Hobbit, Little Women, Little House on the Prairie with my child, just like my mum did with me.
thanks for letting me share
B
I know I’m not eligible to win, but had to comment as my father read The Hobbit to me several times as a child! He always made up tunes to sing the hobbit songs, which I adored.
My mom often bought me abridged versions of longer stories, like Poe’s works, and even Shakespeare-which ended up being my favorite. I loved how fantastical the little illustrations were for Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, and though I was never a “girly-girl” in other aspects, I already enjoyed love stories (especially ones with insurmountable odds). I can’t find the giant book of Shakespeare at my parent’s house (I think I might have carted it off to a few art classes to study the drawings or something and left it there), but I won’t write off getting abridged versions of longer classic stories for my kiddos. It helped me process the works when I encountered them later, and it was enjoyable all on its own. Being read to every night was magic…I’m so glad mom didn’t just stick with short picture books and the run of the mill stuff at the time!
I don’t have any memories of my parents reading to be as a child. I loved reading and my first memory of reading was Enid Blyton…Malory Towers, Wishing Chair etc.I am now discovering books from my youth like Bedknob and Broomstick, The Children from One End Street. I found a great little charity shop where it is like stepping back in time, with books with original bookcovers. I remember bookcovers rather than names.
And now discovering new authors like Eva Ibbotson…
Reading to my 4 year old and I am always finding great new books for him. And I love reading to him. I can’t wait to start on chapter books, but there are so many great picture books there is no rush..
My mum did read to me, she talks about reading me an Anatomy and Physiology text book!!!…. I am now a scientist…how about that for guiding my career from an early age.
I have great memories of my mum reading to me whenever I demaded it! My favourite was ‘The Wait for Me Kitten’ and Dr Suess’ ‘Are you my mother?’ when I was very small. There was also one about a train whose title I can not remember but he takes the Jelly Babies to the seaside and although their Mummy tells them not to paddle in the water they still do and that is why their legs are stuck together
As I got older I was a Famous Five addict and loved closing my eyes and listening to my mums voice… I would pay lots of money to have her reading it all on tape x
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