Children's books that drive you crazy

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I may be in the minority, but I *hate* reading The Cat in the Hat. Monotonous, the Cat is annoying, and long.

I also think "I Love You Forever" is super creepy.

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The Giving Tree.

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Amelia Bedelia. Any of them. My DD has loved them for years. So tired of reading about Amelia Bedelia.

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Anonymous wrote:

I also think "I Love You Forever" is super creepy.

I agree. There was some Munsch book about a badly behaved kid that I "lost" behind the bookshelf.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I also think "I Love You Forever" is super creepy.

I agree. There was some Munsch book about a badly behaved kid that I "lost" behind the bookshelf.

DH hates this book too!! He agrees it's totally creepy. I don't like the page that shows the 2 year old putting all this stuff in the toilet. I don't want to give my 2 year old any ideas!

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Anonymous wrote:I may be in the minority, but I *hate* reading The Cat in the Hat. Monotonous, the Cat is annoying, and long.

I also think "I Love You Forever" is super creepy.

Actually, I love Cat in the Hat -- and Green Eggs and Ham.

I can't stand the Dora books -- absolutely dreadful.

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The entire Froggy series. I think the rhymes are incredibly lame...something about the rhythm that just isn't right.

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Anything Sponge Bob.

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Anonymous wrote:Amelia Bedelia. Any of them. My DD has loved them for years. So tired of reading about Amelia Bedelia.

I hate hate hate Amelia Bedilia!

Fox in Sox is one of the all-time more annoying books. Fortunately, you can skip a few pages here and there and the kids don't pick up on it.

I also think the Froggy books are annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:
I also think "I Love You Forever" is super creepy.

Oh, so creepy.

When the mom drives across town "on dark nights" with the ladder strapped to the roof of the car? Chilling!

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My son is actually big into Dr. Seuss and can read "Green eggs and ham" over and over. He also likes Dr. Seuss Learning Library which has books on space, climate change and all other cool science stuff.

The books we, his parents, cannot stand are anything with Thomas the Train. We hate the message: if you are not useful, we will send you to the scrap factory. Hello Nazi euthanasia program!

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Anonymous wrote:The Giving Tree.

Agree! What is the moral of the story? Give everything you have to some ungrateful lout and you are left... a stump?

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Richard Scarry -- the "Cars, Trucks, and Things That Go" book is I swear like 70 pages long. I think DS deliberately chooses it for bedtime because it takes forever to read it. And you have to find this super teeny tiny bug "Goldbug" on nearly every page. It drives me insane. But...DS loves the book and the pictures are cute and interesting, so what's a mom gonna do, right?!

There was a Thomas the Train ABC book that we also "lost" at one point because it was so obnoxious.

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My sister gave my 3 yo a Barbie Fashion Emergency! book. I read it to her once, which was difficult because my eyes were constantly rolling back in my head. The book is now on permanent loan to a recycling facility.

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Anonymous wrote:Richard Scarry -- the "Cars, Trucks, and Things That Go" book is I swear like 70 pages long. I think DS deliberately chooses it for bedtime because it takes forever to read it. And you have to find this super teeny tiny bug "Goldbug" on nearly every page. It drives me insane. But...DS loves the book and the pictures are cute and interesting, so what's a mom gonna do, right?!

Love this thread. Yes, Cars and Trucks can be long but I've found that DS knows where goldbug is now, and the book moves fairly quicly because all he wants to do is locate Goldbug and turn the page.