The UK’s favourite bedtime stories

Have you ever wonder what are the UK’s favourite bedtime stories?

What was / is your child’s favourite bedtime book?

When my kids were younger I read them 3 books every single night! Needless to say, now they are a little older they are HUGE readers themselves and always have a book at bedtime.

My two both loved The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton and Tiddler by Julia Donaldson.

Exclusive research conducted by bed retailer Happy Beds as part of its campaign to celebrate World Book Day on March 1^st found that the nations favourite bedtime book and it is an oldie! Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s book Goodnight Moon has been named as The UK’s Favourite Bedtime Book.The Two Hoots picture book, which is illustrated by Clement Hurd and features a rabbit saying “goodnight” to everything around it, isn’t that just super sweet,

Happy Beds collated more than 26 online lists of ‘Best Bedtime Books’ from national newspapers, book review sites and literary bloggers and compiled a list with 399 different titles. Margaret Wise Brown’s novel came top of the list, beating the Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, and Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Gruffalo.

Here are the complete rankings.

Is your child’s or your favourite on there?

The UK’s favourite bedtime stories – an awesome list

Some of these are brand new to me and other’s like ‘Guess how much I love you’ I must have read to my kids a 100 times.   Surprisingly, only two of the top ten were published in the 21^st century – sometimes the old favourites are just the best. Do tell me your favourites in the comments below.

Were you surprised by this list of The UK’s favourite bedtime stories

This post was created in collaboration with Happy Beds

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