What was the greatest ever bedtime story?

I grew up on these:

I think you all have pretty well covered many of the classics, with Dr. Suess and Little bear..I read the kids stories...have since my own son was small...books are often my shopping trip treats for them. I always like to tuck in seasonal books also....such as Poo's Holloween..with Christopher Robin. We've taken an lot of the old time classics and acted them out..until we got to Peter Pan and they threw my grand-daughter off the plank (chair) into the ocean..with her "baby" doll..such are boys. The newst movie out..about Cloudy with meatballs. is one I've had for years around here. I search the thrift shops for unusal books also. We had one where it had colored filmed panels, that you pushed, like red over yellow to show you the color orange..very smart idea.. My kids have an variety of exposure to things, from books to classic movies, to Guitar Hero to WII, to computers, to hand held nintendo games, to television. My youngest one is into Thomas the train...and he liked the last Christmas train movie also. The second oldest is into animals, he'd make an good veternarian some day...and the grand-duahgter is an sports buff right now, but also into teen type "Hannah Montana" type TV shows. She started music lessons this year also at school..with her dad's old saxaphone. She's into algebra also..about three years earlier then what I had it in school. They have book reading sheets to fill out every week as it is...for homework. The second grandson, we have an problem with, he does the work but fails to turn in his sheets that he did it. We have to keep telling him about that part of getting the credit for what he does. Youngest one that goes to kindergarden enjoys singing apparently..he's been coming home to sing me songs in the afternoon.But books, I have drawers and drawers of them around here. Shelves and shelves for us. As long as I can get them for not much, I ususally send them on for nothing to others to read also...many I keep for reference books. I'm still wating for the utimate book for kids..one that they open the book cover up to an bowl of attached paper or cloth strings of wide noodles with an story on each noodle. I've already given the cups with critters in the bottom of them that show up as they drink their milk, like casper the ghost, and  cups where their hands warm it up and from stars the sunlight comes out...an Christmas book with tiny embedded Ornamnets...ends with an tiny teddy bear the last one sitting under the tree...and Borders sold one year books that had an story and they were containers for small plastic airplanes and cars...and included an raceway and airpot landing strip mat in plastic...they also got form me in Avon, the book that comes with an hand held flashlight with sound buttons and the book tells the story, and as you use the flashlight it makes shadows on the wall, and they make the sounds as your read the book....I have so many different kinds of books, it' s nearly unbeleivable.I even have one from my brother...that's three generations ago people...that I use to read to him ...about the Tawny Scrawny Lion...let's see he is now 50 years old.

Shirley:

Tawny Scrawny Lion is the best ever! We all love that book and we all (my wife and I, my daughter and my son) have well worn copies of it. What a great message!

Have you ever read Avocado Baby?

My parents never read to us at bedtime, I can't remember them doing it anytime. But my favorite books were "The Fire Cat" and "What colour is love?" by Joan Walsh Anglund. 

We always read to Elsie every night. We would get animated with her and make her laugh. She really loved Roald Dahl books and Captain Underpants!! Heck, I loved Captain underpants. Really made me laugh!

Rob...Is it anything like James and the Giant Peach by any chance?...no I havent' read it.I don' tthink....have to keep my eye for it though.

Cathie, I don't remember my parents ever reading to much to me, though they read extensively, esp my mother, but my mother played music to us every night growing up..she played by ear you know..and many instruments.mostly string or keyboard..I remember when we had kind of show and tell one time ...she went to school for me an played "Davy Crockett" and got us all singing. I asked mom one time how she learned to play from ear so well and she said that her younger sister had polio when she was little and that's what got her started, she made an full recovery from it by her teen years. One thing I miss these days is not having the familiar "Music" in the background being played off in the distance. I bought my mother an new organ/piano one time for Christmas. It was an true "joy" to her back then. By then the movie show themes were popular....Moon River by Andy Williams and such. But mother was an reader and she kept up with the latest...I can remeber when were we the first family on the block with an colored TV set...even if most the time people looked either green or reddish-purple.. At least the peacock always looked stunning...Lol............I was introduced here an while back to Capt. Underpants and I laughed my head off reading it.