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Remember that "gustar" means "to please" unlike the English "like" which essentially means "to be pleased by." So what you're saying is:
Is reading pleasing to your children?
When you state it this way, the obvious translation becomes:
¿Leer les gusta a vuestros hijos?
And then the necesity of the 'a' becomes more clear, as in this case it is a ...
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Your two examples are actually different phenomena.
Ex. 1) ¿A vuestros hijos les gusta leer?
Consider the following statements:
Me gusta leer.
Me gusta leer a mí.
A mí, me gusta leer.
You can always add the a mí for emphasis. Similarly, you can add an "a [person]" to clarify who the pronoun refers to, in the more ambiguous case of les.
Ex. 2) Todos ...
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