You know I love to sew, you might know I love to bake, my other favorite hobby? Reading! I love to read. I can’t think too many things that sound better than curling up with a good book on a couch with my blanket and maybe hot chocolate chip cookies…Alas, with 4 little boys that pretty much never happens. But I wish it did. This is what my nightstand typically looks like:
You know I love to sew, you might know I love to bake, my other favorite hobby? Reading! I love to read. I can’t think too many things that sound better than curling up with a good book on a couch with my blanket and maybe hot chocolate chip cookies…Alas, with 4 little boys that pretty much never happens. But I wish it did. This is what my nightstand typically looks like:
Piled with books. I wish I had (or took) more time to read. I do read quite a bit though. One thing that I LOVE to do with my kids is read. We are almost always in the middle of a book that I am reading out loud to them and my two oldest who can read themselves are voracious readers too. Here’s their dresser
Well, ok. I cleaned it up a little for the picture. They keep it messily piled with books. I love that they love to read. And my 5 year old? A bookshelf full of books. (Check that link to see how it looks when it’s all pretty and organized. Here’s what it looks like really): 
And the baby loves books too. Yes, we are a family of readers.
So, taking the Leapfrog Reading Challenge? Piece of cake! 
Will you take the reading pledge this month too? March is national reading month, so do it! Read to yourself and read to your kids. It will make you happy, it will make them happy. And smarter. I have to believe that kids who read a lot are better in school not only in reading, but definitely in writing and I think in all other subjects too. I want to raise readers and I hope you do too! Leap Frog (who is seriously my favorite company for children’s products and I mean that) has some great reading tools too.
We got this fun book called the Tag reading system and my 5 year old has barely put it down. And when he does the 7 year old and 9 year old snatch it right up! It’s so much fun! He uses a magic pen (or at least that’s what he calls it) to “read” the book. It will read it to him, sound out words, etc. And it plays games. So neat. 
Leap Frog has $3 off on those sets right now…AND let’s do a giveaway! Because I know you all love giveaways! Leap Frog is giving 1 reader a Leap Frog Reading Prize Pack.
Enter here:
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I can’t choose just one, but some of my favorites are Christy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Les Miserables, Redeeming Love and Through Gates of Splendor!
Have you read The Enchanted Forest Chronicles (it starts with Dealing with Dragons) by Patricia C. Wrede? Whenever I think about my favorite books, I always return to those…
The Ender’s Game series by Orson Scott Card.
So You Want to be a Wizard series by Diane Duane
I love books, my kindle is my best friend and thanks to facebook im finding new stuff for free all the time, my daughter just got a kindle and suddenly my ‘reading is boring’ daughter has her head in a book all the time fantastic, I live historical novels and Phillipa Gregory is one of my faves xx
Reading is the best. Alas I was born with a to-be-read pile of books I’ll never make it through. The list of books to buy grows often as well. Favorite return-tos would be Tamora Pierce’s books, Harry Potter, etc. If you want a great place to discover more books (and keep track of books you want to read next, etc) check out Goodreads.
Excellent books in the piles, btw.
Oh, I LOOOOVE Good Reads. Have you read The Distant Hours? Man I love Kate Morton.
I love the Hunger Games trilogy, and I’m currently reading The Help
We are huuuge readers in our family… and my kids started out with a lot of Leapfrog stuff too. Since we homeschool, I am constantly looking for good books & love this site, we’ve found lots of keepers on these lists: http://readkiddoread.com/.
I try to read the bible daily. I also like anything Debbie Macomber or Sherryl Woods writes. Thanks for the giveaway.
My all time favorite book series is The Mitford Series by Jan Karon. The first book in the series is At Home in Mitford. It’s like curling up with a small town, and a quilt, hot chocolate and cookies all at once.
I’ve read At Home in Mitford. :)
My favorite book is the Shack. can not remember the author. It is a goody!
Hi Amber. I looooooooove to read. I too have a stack of books waiting for me to dive into. I have a lot of favorites but lately I have been liking Nicholas Sparks’ books. They are all based in the south….which I love and quick to read. :)
As a teacher (not currently teaching, tho), I am a voracious reader and love to see others read too. My favorite, but sad, book is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn…such a classic. My favorite “tween” book is Tuck Everlasting…I read this several years in a row to my students. They also loved Where the Red Fern Grows…if you want to see big kids get emotional about a story, this is the one!
Right now I’m reading The Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. I also like Divergent and Insurgent, waiting for last book in the series to come out in October.
I have been reading the newberry medal winners for the last few years. I only have about 14 left.
My favorite genre is historical fiction so I recommend Deanna Raybourne, Tasha Alexander, and Phillipa Gregory.
I don’t think I can pick just one favorite, but I could read Animal Farm by George Orwell over and over.
Oh I have so many! But there are two books I loved as a girl and I still re-read every year. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech and The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg.
I love Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
The Gunslinger Series by Stephen King.
My 2 yr old and I love to read together. Anything truck related is a favorite. He also loves Eric Carle books, Goodnight Moon, etc. Anyone have good book suggestions for a 2 yr old?
Right now I am loving Richard Paul Evans. One of my very favorites is called The Sunflower.
Alibi by Teri Woods
The most recent book I read that I just loved is Short-Straw Bride by Karen Witemeyer.
Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters. It IS a very entertaining, interesting book. I loved it!
Ooh, so exciting!
Totally forgot the book… I can’t choose just one, so I think I’ll go for the entire Harry Potter series!
My favourite book?? That’s a tough one! I love the classics, probably Little Women…I read it over and over. My DD loves Hugs & Kisses (we read it EVERY night!) and the classic Very Hungry Caterpillar! I wish I had more time to read, too!
I taught Language Arts for more than 20 years. There is nothing as gratifying as awaking the excitement of reading in a child! Reading can “take you anywhere!”
My favorite book as a child was Charlotte’s Web. I just finished reading Friendship Bread and have so many books on my Kindle and my nightstand that I could read forever. What a great thought.
anything by Laura Child- they are a fun light mystery.
I don’t even know how I would choose! I love reading with my kids and we do it several times a day and the library is our best friend! I really liked “the Art of Racing in the Rain,” The Hunger Games, and for good chick lit, Jennifer Weiner, Emily Giffin, or Sue Margolis.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harry Potter, East of Eden
I love Marian Keyes and The Sookie Stackhouse: Trueblood novels.
Does your husband like to read? My daughter and I read,but my husband who is a teacher hates to read! Go figure! :)
He’s not a big reader. He reads some…
I love books, so to pick a favorite would be hard, but ones I love are Frank Peretti’s “This Present Darkness/ Piercing the Darkness”, and “The Chronicles of Narnia”.
I loved the Paris Wife about Hadley, Ernest Hemingway’s first wife.
I’ve been reading an overabundance of YA novels lately, and I have NO SHAME! (Okay, maybe just a little shame). I adore the Hunger Games novels, so smartly written, yay girl power! When I need a fantastic giggle, my go-to is Celia Rivenbark. She’s Southern and sassy and needs desperately to be my BFF. And of course, I love Harry Potter. Oh, oh, oh, and Sydney Sheldon. “Master of the Game” and “If Tomorrow Comes” have been read so much by me that I have to constantly replace them because they wear out. OH! And for children’s books, it is all about Sesame Street’s “The Monster at the End of this Book”. I just bought my friend Katie’s baby girl that book, I was horrified to learn that not only did they not own it, neither Katie nor her husband had read it! Horror!
I’m a big reader. I’ll be quiet now.
I’m a former English teacher and ex-librarian, so there is no WAY I can pick just one book. My current favorite for my little guy is A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker.
I love this. We are in the process of learning to read. Me and five year old that is. This would be so helpful.
I am currently reading The Magic Warble by Victoria simcox
wow pick a favorite book .. I love Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice. I’m half way through Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks. My 11yr just read a book called Wonder — my sister is an HS English teacher and she gives him some good ones to read. I’m about to start on the trumpeter swan with my children.
i fell in love with the house of night series by P.C. and Kristin Cast after my hubby gave me the last book from the series as a gift and I went out and bought the first one to start from the beginning
I feel terrible, i’m not a reader! I read to my kids a lot though :) Our favorite book is the Gruffalo!
My favorite book that I go back to over and over is Pride & Prejudice!
Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah – super duper tearjerker!
It’s hard to pick an all time favorite (other than the Bible of course), but currently I’m really loving “Unbroken” by Laura Hillenbrand! Such a great true story, and Louis is a believer in the Lord too!
Harry Potter is probably my all time favorite. Also love Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. Love Maeve Binchy too.
My favorite book from childhood was Frog and Toad (it’s an older book from the 70s, can’t remember the author, but has been released again)
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Loving Rick Riordan. He’s got a great style and his books are fun. Listening to The 39 Clues right now. Listening in the car frees up time to read other books to my kids.
I am always reading something, and I am lucky enough to have my dream job as a bookseller. Hard to pick favorites, so I’ll just mention what I’m reading now: A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash.
I like the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan
My favorite book is for sure Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah. I also like her other books!
I love to read everything. Sarah dessen is a great author. I love reading disney books and eric carl books to my son
My favorite book, currently, it The Secret Life of Bees
Good one!
I love “These is my Words” by Nancy Turner
Me too! :)
I’m not a big reader but my 2 daughters are and they love Dean Koontz books, John Grisham and ones like that.
I only read kids books, but my favourite is Ï love you forever by Robert Munch.
Our favorite book is You’re My Little Lovebug by Heidi Weimer
I love the Giver . one of my all time favorites :)!
I loved Ken Follett’s “The Pillars of the Earth” and “World Without End” which they also have out in video now. I never thought I’d be interested in the catholic church building in England in the eleventh century, but the characters and their lives (from Kings to peasants) is wonderfully written. :)
I’m so boring when it comes to books… I’m generally reading something educational. My favorite author is Scott Stratten, who is a marketing professional who writes books on how business can use social media (and other modern marketing techniques) more effectively… and he doesn’t suck. I’m kind of a marketing junkie….
I love all of Jacqueline Winspear books in the Maisie Dobbs series. Like Nancy Drew for grown ups! :)
For young adults I love reading Daddy Long Legs (it’s practically nothing like the Fred Astaire movie if you’ve seen that). It’s by Jean Webster.