Children’s books I hate:

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https://the-toast.net/2013/11/13/gifts-giving-tree/

Definitely don’t click on the rest of the series, either.

UUUUAGGGAGGGGAAHhhhhhhhh

Ah! Ah! Ah!

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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?

Rainbow fish is about socialism

You don’t know much about socialism, do you? It’s not about socialism at all. It’s about bending and giving to fit social norms.

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“Heather Has Two Mommies” for obvious reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:Pout, Pout Fish. Sexual assault cures depression!

I LOVE Pout, Pout Fish! It’s not assault - it’s a kiss! Plus it has the best rhymes.

If you were swimming laps and some dude swam up and kissed you, you'd definitely think it was assault!

Mine is Berenstain bears--they are so long!

I was looking to see if anyone had Berenstain Bears. I couldn’t stand them as a child and never read them to my child. However, I admittedly can’t remember why I dislike them so much.

I will remind you - in the longer stories, the rhymes are a stretch and they make fun of fathers in every book which I find demeaning.

Yeah, Papa bear works and has a SAHM wife and therefore is clueless about the kids and incompetent at raising them or doing anything around the house.

It was written a long time ago and that's how dads were more or less. Where has everyone's sense of humor gone? It is a story about bears doing silly things. I'm sure you were read these books and it was fine.

Relax everyone!

My dad was not incompetent. He was a great father, and a skilled carpenter and painter so (for example) he personally made all our furniture. Also a great cook.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get Gruffalo. How is the mouse clever if the gruffalo is real?

Because the mouse tricks the Gruffalo into being scared of a small mouse.

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Anonymous wrote:Just leaving this here.

https://the-toast.net/2013/11/13/gifts-giving-tree/

Definitely don’t click on the rest of the series, either.

I love this! But I find it only slightly more creepy than the original Giving Tree, which we had to read & discuss in Sunday school. I hated it then & I hate it now.

Bread & Jam for Frances is one of my favorites, especially the illustrations.

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Anonymous wrote:Love you forever. Starting getting weird when kid was a teen and was downright stalkery by the end.

+1 this book makes me uncomfortable.

Yes! This!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just leaving this here.

https://the-toast.net/2013/11/13/gifts-giving-tree/

Definitely don’t click on the rest of the series, either.

I love this! But I find it only slightly more creepy than the original Giving Tree, which we had to read & discuss in Sunday school. I hated it then & I hate it now.

Bread & Jam for Frances is one of my favorites, especially the illustrations.

Yes, we had to read The Giving Tree too in my private Baptist School.

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Anonymous wrote:Love you forever. Starting getting weird when kid was a teen and was downright stalkery by the end.

+1 this book makes me uncomfortable.

Yes! This!

I remember thinking the mom must be like GI Jane to break into a house and pick up a large grown man and rock him.

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I am sure this is not a popular option, but I cannot stand “Where the Wild Things Are.”

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The Runaway Bunny. I get irrational about mother bunny’s helicopter tendencies.

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I loathed the Bearenstain Bears because I could just not wrap my head around the fact that the children are named "Brother" and "Sister."

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t get Gruffalo. How is the mouse clever if the gruffalo is real?

Because the mouse tricks the Gruffalo into being scared of a small mouse.

That’s the second half of the book.

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Anonymous wrote:“Heather Has Two Mommies” for obvious reasons.

? Because you hate the name Heather?

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Anonymous wrote:“Heather Has Two Mommies” for obvious reasons.

? Because you hate the name Heather?

No. You know why it’s a bad book.