The Mousehole Cat written by Antonia Barber and illustrated by Nicola Bayley:
I read to my nephew and niece a lot, I make sure I buy them lots of lovely books with lovely words as well as lovely illustrations, there's no such thing as too many books.
Well, the last one I read was "Taliesin" (Stephen Lawhead). Now I should be reading "Merlin" (Stephen Lawhead) but I'm reading "A Face das Águas" which means "The Face of the Waters" (Robert Silverberg) xD