My favourites would include the Winnie the Pooh books but my all-time favourite is The Wind in the Willows. I read them to my partner who is a very light sleeper. It works every time. The Pooh books allow me to sing the 'poohsongs', and the different characters in WITW allow me to invent different voices for each of them. There are also many collections of Celtic fairy stories that I heard (as a child) and have read (as an adult) but I imagine that compilations are 'out of bounds' here? I would mention in this context one which is so sad that it never fails to make me cry. It's called "The Fate of the Children of Lyr". Try it out if you get a chance. I'd transcribe it but it's about 20 pages long. perhaps the scanner.
BTW does anyone know why the punctuation is so strange in 'The Emerald City of Oz'? Apostrophes are added to the following word after a gap, as in, for example, "I 'm in great trouble over." or "I 've lost my magic belt." (This is from the Dover Classics for Children collection.) mike in bcn NP Eddy Grant - "The Greatest Hits." NR "Who Paid the Piper?- The CIA and the Cultural Cold War." Frances Stonor Saunders.
