I seriously enjoyed the adventures of Robin Hood when I was a child.
The tales of his deeds where he robs from the rich to give to the poor -- it's like waaay past awesome
Especially when Disney came up with their rendition of the classic tale, it's just simply marvelous!

Another that was a favorite of mine is The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
While I can enjoy Mowgli's adventure and all, but my most favorite story in that entire collection is the Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
It is the tale of a super-speed mongoose battling it out with snakes in order to protect his masters

I'm reading Dr Seuss to my kids nowadays. I love Dr Seuss! Dr Seuss rocks!

Haha! I remember Dr Seuss very well

Wow you're a good parent! Its EXTREMELY rare do I hear a parent in Malaysia that reads bedtime stories to their kids anymore these days

It's a routine thing, if I don't read it to her (my oldest daughter), she won't go to sleep one, like, tak cukup syarat for the day kinda thing..

neverending stories

they have that in story books?

well personal fav was "Rip Van Winkle" lol

for sure got bro.. some more it was from the novel itself

My favourite childhood bedtime storybook was this big pictorial book called The Odyssey. It started my anything-mythology craze since then until now. I still have the book in my book. There's several books fron my childhood that I still keep. The pictures are very beautifully drawn and detailed. I loved it to death.

Loved it the most when my dad read the part where Odysseus tricked Cyclops into drinking the wine...

*thumbs up to Greek mythology*

fuwah...so early get to read those stuff!!! lucky guy
i only manage to get those stuff at high school...live greek and egyptian mythology...was always fascinated by em

I'm not a guy la. Girls can like fantasy stuff also ya.

Anyway as mentioned, it was a pictorial book. The pages are filled with oil painting-esque drawings with words. The size of the book is like a folder's size. My mom saved some of the marketing money to buy it for me. I like it so much that everytime I walk into Big Book Shop (at Petaling Street before it close down) and spent the longest time oogling and drooling at the book. Took me a long time trying to learn how to pronounce Odysseus back then

oops...sry

well its rare that i would find someone that actually share the same interest as me hahaha...bet when stargate SG-1 came out you were going crazy eh?

I liked the movie but I haven't watched the series. I'm a big fan of mythology/fantasy based stories but not sci-fiction, that is why I like LOTR and Silmarillion but not Star Wars. Care to introduce? There's tons of Greek, Irish, Japanese, Chinese and American Indian mythology books but not that many on Egyptian mythologies, good ones I mean. It doesn't have to be a novel based on one mythology character but a storybook based from the creation/birth of the first 'god' to how others are born/created. XD . Most of the stuff I've read of them are from the Internet.

Got off topic... Anyway besides from The Odyssey, another favourite bedtime storybook of mine is Brothers Grimm. Not the sweetened version where everything ends happily ever after but the more original version. It's not overly gory but some of the stories do have sad endings. Like the original Little Mermaid version.

I got the book from a relative as a hand me down when I was in Std 5 and I loved that book. Also still have it with me though it's a little battered.

This post has been edited by chibi_tenko: Apr 22 2009, 09:52 PM

Here are my suggestions for fairy tales which adults can also enjoy - and your children may appreciate more as they grow older:

Haroun and the sea of stories by Salman Rushdie

Candide and other stories by Voltaire (Much, much better satire than Swift's Gulliver)

Someone above also recommended never ending story, the complete text might be a bit too long for a bed time story but it is wonderfully dark.