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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][mastodon][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Kids like repetitive books. [/b] I remember Goosebumps and the My Teacher Is An Alien and Babysitter Little Sister and American Girl books being obsessively read in my elementary school.  Get them hooked on stuff you like, but if you can find something with a long slightly repetitive series you’ll have better luck displacing the magic treehouses of the world.[/quote]

I distinctly remember the age where I realized all the Redwall books I adored were actually virtually identical books. I try to read my kid Good Books, but I also don't begrudge her her crap. Older generations had their formulaic Hardy Boys and Happy Hollisters and this generation has Dogman. Most adults don't read only great literature either.[/quote]

+1. I remember reading Happy Hollisters as a kid and loving it (I'm not actually that old, we found it in some used bookstore somewhere). My mom gave it to me and I looked through it again and was pretty horrified. The kids were so mean! It was so poorly written![/quote]

I actually mentioned the Happy Hollisters specifically because my husband's mother loved them, then he loved them, and now our kid is reading them. Three generations, loving the same pablum![/quote]

I remember rereading all the black stallion books (that I LOVED as an elementary schooler) in high school and being horribly disappointed in them.  They were terrible!  But 8 year old me thought they were the absolute greatest.  Also Trixie Belden which my mother passed on to me — the first one isn’t terrible on reread but I only want one not the hundreds there are.[/quote]

Black Beauty, Boxcar Children, even Babysitters’ Club is great lit compared to today’s “kid lit.” Bob Shea, Dog Man, Captain Underpants, all the picture books that just have random  things shouted aloud. Ugh. [/quote]

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