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I didn't read to my son when he was younger. He didn't like to sit in my lap and be read to. He didn't like to be read to without sitting still either. Now he does and lately I've read him "Peter Pan", "My Fathers Dragon", "The Whipping Boy", "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory", and started to read "A Little Princess". My daughter has always liked to sit in my lap and let me read picture books. My son was willing to be taught (many things), but was willing to sit in my lap and read picture books to me before he started liking sitting in my lap and letting me read picture books to him.

Me neither. My bibliophile brain is going haywire.

Yes, mine too! I keep picturing my kids' little toddler faces intently listening, gripped in the story. It's a different face to their reading faces and it's making me (unreasonably) sad to think of other little kids not having that face! haha

Mr W (5y) and I read to each other. I read one page and he reads the next. We stop to discuss. We do from 20-100 pages a day around a 5th grade level.

Right now we are working through Peter Pan stuff - including some newly released Tinker Bell books. He was into pirates recently so Treasure Island went down well. We generally pick something he is into then find books around his lexical ability or just beyond it. We screen for sexual topics, but not for death as he has been through some difficult family situations and it helps for him to see others dealing with it.