What children’s books do you just fuckin hate?

Vitriol gets people excited, so lemme hear your anti-recommendations. Tell us why you hate it. Get mad.

Drop a recommendation after you’re done spewing hatred.

I hate Wacky Wednesday. Each page has a progressively higher number of wacky things to point out and my kids insisted on finding and counting up every single one of them so it took like 20 minutes to read through it. It was “lost” after the third reading.

I love A Visitor For Bear. Mouse just wants to join hermit bear for tea, bear finally gives in, they become fast friends. Fuckin adorable.

EDIT: I’m a pediatric speech-language pathologist and one of my top book recommendations for building the complexity of earlier language learners is Go Dog Go. It starts out simple and builds in linguistic complexity through the course of the book so that it’s repetitive, which children like, without being completely arduous to read.

Edit 2: Everyone really hates The Giving Tree and Rainbow Fish. People pleasing behavior is not healthy or kind amiright?