Children’s books I hate:
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Anonymous
| I totally agree. I read many of these to my kids, but now I’m like WTf. |
Anonymous
No! They're terrible. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| I can't think of an example, but I don't like most books with "secondary text" - like where you read the main words on the page, but then there are speech bubbles are something that are kind of disjointed. |
Anonymous
| Anything by Richard Scarry and Sandra Boynton's Bardyard Dance. I don't find any of these easy to read (don't flow well). |
Anonymous
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Most of the old "Little Golden" books, but particularly Tootle. It is about a train who is different and won't stay on the tracks or do what trains are supposed to do. So the townspeople get together and basically crush his spirit so he will be a "good engine." Hate it so much. Terrible message about how being different is bad and conformity is good.
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Anonymous
Agreed. I especially hate speech bubbles. |
Anonymous
Yes, this is the same reason I dislike Rainbow Fish. Why would we want our kids to learn that it is bad to be different and better for everyone to be exactly the same? |
Anonymous
Agreed. I love Richard Scarry's illustrations, but I usually don't read the whole text. I really like his nursery rhyme book though. |
Anonymous
Yes. Plus the illustrations are ugly. |
Anonymous
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I like piggie and elephant but not the irritating pigeon.
Youve already hit most of my top “this is awful” books—giving co-dependent tree, skippyjon racist jones, etc. I’ll add: bratalicious Pinkalicious, the thomas tank engine books where the steamies deride and abuse the diesels (is it racist? Is it classist? Is it just too british?) Give a mouse a cookie, etc. which is like reagonomics for children (don’t give the mouse a cookie because then she’ll just be delpendent on handouts and expect you to pay for her five kids to go to college—eat the cookie yourself and the benefits will eventually trickle down to the mouse) If someone wants a really lovely expression of maternal love to counter the giving tree, try Mama Do You Love Me? Where the kid posits outrageously bad behavior and the mom admits she would be angry as anything but would still love him. |
Anonymous
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I really hated the "if you give a mouse a cookie" books. There's nothing cute about that kind of relentless pestering! Good grief mouse - go play by yourself and let me know how it goes later
I didn't like the kids books that featured rude or helpless characters |
Anonymous
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If you give a mouse a cookie. Just annoying to read.
I refuse to read the Disney Princess book. So lame about them having a picnic. I like better plots. She makes the babysitter or dad read those instead. |
Anonymous
| Pout, Pout Fish. Sexual assault cures depression! |
Anonymous
| Ladybug Girl |