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Love You Forever: 5 of Hollywood’s Sexiest Men Read to You from Children’s Classics

Minh Le

Staff Writer

Minh is the author of Let Me Finish! a debut picture book that will be published by Disney-Hyperion in 2016. By day he works in early childhood policy and in 2010 helped design 826DC‘s Museum of Unnatural History (the only place you can both support youth creative writing and get your daily supply of unicorn tears). He also writes about children’s lit at Bottom Shelf Books and occasionally for the Huffington Post and others. Follow him on Twitter @bottomshelfbks.

You know what they say: There is nothing sexier than a man reading a children’s book.

Okay, so I don’t know if anyone actually says that.

But as a man who is often spotted reading children’s books in public, I really want this to be a thing. Completely self-serving, I know. To help make this happen, I’ve recruited some of Hollywood’s most dashing leading men to read to you from beloved children’s classics.

Everyone together now: THERE IS NOTHING SEXIER THAN A MAN READING A CHILDREN’S BOOK.

 

Javier Bardem reading from RUNAWAY BUNNY

Javier Bardem reading from RUNAWAY BUNNY

 

Idris Elba reading from LOVE YOU FOREVER

Idris Elba reading from LOVE YOU FOREVER

 

Benedict Cumberbatch reading from MY LOVE WILL FIND YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE

Benedict Cumberbatch reading from WHEREVER YOU ARE, MY LOVE WILL FIND YOU

 

Ryan Gosling reading from WINNIE THE POOH

Ryan Gosling reading from WINNIE THE POOH

 

Channing Tatum reading from CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM

Channing Tatum reading from CHICKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM

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