Ladybug Girl

Pout, Pout Fish. Sexual assault cures depression!

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.

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

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.

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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. Plus the illustrations are ugly.

Anonymous wrote:Anything by Richard Scarry and Sandra Boynton's Bardyard Dance. I don't find any of these easy to read (don't flow well).

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 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?

Anonymous wrote: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.

Agreed. I especially hate speech bubbles.

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.

Anything by Richard Scarry and Sandra Boynton's Bardyard Dance. I don't find any of these easy to read (don't flow well).

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate the Don't Let the Pigeon... and Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems.

I hated reading them to my kids. But they’re great once the kid starts reading on his/her own.

These books are funnier and more enjoyable than 99.99% of the rest of the children's books out there!

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I hate the Don't Let the Pigeon... and Elephant and Piggie series by Mo Willems.

I hated reading them to my kids. But they’re great once the kid starts reading on his/her own.

These books are funnier and more enjoyable than 99.99% of the rest of the children's books out there!

No! They're terrible.

I totally agree. I read many of these to my kids, but now I’m like WTf.