Posted Saturday November 21st 2009 by Natasha Worswick

Earlier this year, as part of the campaign to promote the launch of Booktime and Booked Up, we spoke to lots of famous people. They told us about the books they loved as children, the stories they share with their own little ones and why they think reading matters.


And I think it says a lot about how books can bring us together, no matter who we are. Who could have guessed, for example, that Ian Hislop from Have I Got News For You and Kirsty Gallacher would both have a love for the Wind in the Willows? Or that property expert Sarah Beeny and former Olympic rower Matthew Pinsent share a fondness for the Hairy Maclary series?


It also shows how reading tastes can sometimes defy the expectations you have of people. Who could have guessed that a children's author would have preferred characters from the Beano to any of those from children's books?


Take a look at what all of our celebrity readers had to say here.

 

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