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[quote=Anonymous]I hate Fancy Nancy.  The one we have uses a somewhat advanced word every page or so and then defines it in a super annoying way, like "I was delighted, which is fancy for saying I was really happy."   I just skip the "which is fancy" definition when reading it aloud.  It sounds so condescending.

Also feel uncomfortable reading the Babar books.. I love the illustrations, but the stories are colonialist nightmares!  Lots of mentions of "savages."  I edit heavily.

More dislike for Mo Willems-- we have Knuffle Bunny Free, in which spoiler alert, his daughter, who seems to be only three or four years old, is told that she's getting too old for her stuffed bunny and it doesn't matter that she lost him on the airplane.  She internalizes that and when she miraculously finds the bunny again, gives him away to a random baby.  Then the baby becomes her pen pal and mails the bunny back to her after the daughter grows up and becomes a mother.  WTF?!

I do love Dr. Seuss, despite how long they are.  Horton Hears a Who is my favorite.  The rhymes are just so clever and fun to read.  Love that sour kangaroo.[/quote]

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