the most overrated childrens books

I like the Mr Men books. They were hugely popular with the younger members of the family.

Mind you, so was Horrid Henry. I hate those books. They're like a poor version of the lovely William books.

Always remember that if there is a book you particularly loathe and hate reading aloud then that is the one your three-year-old will want to have read to her ten times a day. This is why I never allowed Mr Men books into the house.

Melbliss - the right place for this us the Classifieds section where you pay to place a small business ad.

I give you the Barenstein Bears.

Who decided to publish the Rainbow Fairies? I mean ok to write it but who read it and decided: yes, let's bring it out? OMG I so hate those books, truly loathe them

Anything in the Tiara Club Series - truly, truly awful.

I cannot stand the new (square shaped) Thomas books as they are just so terrible, but I absolutely love the original Awdry Railway Stories books and ds (4) has these stories nearly every night. That and anything by Lynley Dodd, I just love her use of language

I tend to find that books that I loved as a kid are the ones that are most loved in our house, there is just sooooo much drivel out there.

I am about what people think of Thomas. I love Thomas , both DS and DD do as well.

Anyway, those guess how much I love you books - I couldn't bring myself to open them, they looked so pukey.

I ususally send books I don't like straight to the charity shop.

Books that I don't like much are put virtually out of view so that they always choose something I like to read.

Blimey, those pesky Mr Men (ad Little Misses) aren't very popular, are they? Glad I'm not the only one who feels like setting fire to Mr Noisy and his whole boring, sexist little world

The Tiger Who Came To Tea does my head in.

And that revolting book about the mole who does a poo. FFS!

I find it quite upsetting that the fox hound puppies eat all her eggs! they're supposed to be on her side, a little too realistic at that point IMO

Hmmm, I will give you that LittlePushka, and I suppose they all have different names too.
I'm waiting for the stationery series in which Paulette the Paper Clip fairy and her friends Rhodda the Ruler fairy and Enda the Eraser fairy have a series of exciting adventures attempting to retrieve magical items stolen from the staionery cupboard by the goblins.

Nah, piprabbit,..can't have that - they are different colours are they not??

Laragazza, where do you think all the feathers in the shed came from? I don't the foxy gentleman had bought a duvet from John Lewis. I think he might have had nasty plans for poor Jemima.

And what about the foxy gentleman's violent end at the hands of the fox hounds?

I've always suspected that something unmentionable was happening to all those eggs that Jemima was not allowed to keep.

Rainbow Fairies. There are gazillions of the things and they are all exactly the same. Publishers, I'm begging you, please don't produce any more of this shite, I can't stand wasting any more of my precious evenings reading it to DD.

Very Hungry "Capitillar" -

Love julia Donaldson though - for every single word but especially for "BUZZ OFF! That's my witch!"

dr seuss awful
thomas - yawn
mr men - ffs why?
postman pat etc - no thankyou toddler
any AA Milne - whoever decidedthis was readable?
Nick Butterworth -dull and too long
Little Grey Rabbit -zzzzzzz
Beatrix Potter errr noooo

Tiger who came too tea is fab - Samuel Taylor Coleridge for preschoolers

I read Jemima Puddleduck today to the little girl i look after, and there are no corpses. Anyway i love Beatrix Potter, (although i do skim read and change the language a bit!) i think they are wonderful bed time stories.

Apart from Samuel Whiskers as it still creeps the hell out of me.

Bear hunt is fun when you all sing it together. Kids love rhyming and repetiton. Sometimes with Dr Zeuss i get to the end and say 'oh...thats it.......THE END!!'

I'm glad I've come across this thread, I've hated the Thomas books for years - used to skim read them to the kids - awful things, dull and badly behaved trained are not good for frazzled parents.

Also have an aversion to Winnie the Pooh - nothing happens and nothing keeps happening for a long, long time - even I'm usually asleep before we finish a story.

I HATE readint eh mr Men books which is a shame as I loved the cartoon as a child...the books are drivel. Repetitive, annoying in the extreme and the newer ones seem to have been ghost written by someone with no skill whatsoever.

oh how could i forget anthony browne. laureate!

anything 'retold' by michael rosen. bloody thief he is.

anything by nick butterworth

charlie cook's favourite book is utter rubbish.

Anything by Jacqueline Wilson

Oh, and I find all of the Eric Carle books a bit weird - beautiful, but a bit crap to read.

Any TV tie in books for me, they all read sooo badly, but DD loves them

I don't really like reading out loud sadly, though I quite enjoy rhyming books so like Hairy McLairy and the Julia Donaldson books.

Don't like Mr Men either.

We love Good Baby Bad Baby in this house which is sweet as my sister loved it when she was little (she was always Bad Baby ).