Why go to bed with a book you don't like? You can stick with your favorite authors, of course, but even there you must pick and choose. Charles Dickens is too dense for bedtime reading.

Books can relax us as we escape into another ... It can also be helpful to read outside of your bedtime routine to dedicate more time to consume the story or advice it has to offer.

But despite the nightly demand for the same story, 46 per cent of parents still said that reading to their child at bedtime is one of their favourite parts of their day. Parents feel the ideal book ...

The typical parent will read the same bedtime story to their children a whopping 416 times annually, according to a survey ...

Parents feel the ideal book before bed should be 11 pages long and include ... while 63 per cent simply enjoy reading at bedtime. In fact, 46 per cent of those polled, via OnePoll, said reading to ...

THE average parent will read the same bedtime story to their little one 416 times a year. A poll of 1,000 mums and dads with children aged up to four, found 79 per cent have re-read the same book ...