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which childrens' books do you NOT like

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ahundredtimes · 24/05/2007 12:23

I know we're grateful if they read anything at all etc etc, but there are some books which make me howl with misery at the thought of MY having to read and others which I just wish they wouldn't read.

For me: any of those fairy books, The Secret Seven and (from long ago) anything featuring that dog, Spot or that blimmin sheep Wooly who lives on that farm with Mrs Boot and her children.

for them: Captain Underpants, Horrid Henry - everybody is so darn nasty - and that one that's a bit like Captain Underpants but is about robots.

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Dogsby · 24/05/2007 13:07

a kids series wiht the tut i presume....... wow or maybe NOT?

Kathyis6incheshigh · 24/05/2007 13:07

That's what I thought Issy. As in Harry Potter/Dumbledore.

motherinferior · 24/05/2007 13:06

Potter slash is a bit weird. Buffy slash is fabulous.

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ahundredtimes · 24/05/2007 13:06

He does TV and film mostly. He's working on trying to get a series away with the bbc about a chicken in a tutu, I think it's a goer, I've said to him, I've said, you really need to work that Helen in from Spot because she's complex.

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tulip27 · 24/05/2007 13:06

'I love you forever' by Robert Munsch. It was the one Joey read on freinds for Emma's birthday. It was so sad it made me ?cry foe a day and is now banished to the back of the bookcase.
Anyone read it

motherinferior · 24/05/2007 13:05

It's same-sex but written by (and about) both sexes.

Dogsby · 24/05/2007 13:05

wellhelllllllllllllllllllllo issy!

Issy · 24/05/2007 13:04

NQC: I may be horrifically and embarassingly wrong here but isn't 'slash' fiction a genre of 'fan fiction' written by women readers about fictional male heroes (e.g. Fitzwillian Darcy and George Wickham) having sex together? If so I'm more Surrey suburban that I feared as I was mildly bewildered by that concept and I'm really quite surprised although deeply amused about extending it to Thomas et al.

Dogsby · 24/05/2007 13:02

come the revolution....

Dogsby · 24/05/2007 13:01

maybhe he can branch out?
hwat kd of htings dos he write so far>

IdrisTheDragon · 24/05/2007 13:01

"Mr Men are dire, and boring AND you have to look at the pictures on the back and go through in excruciating detail who each one is".

I so agree with you AHT - but DS loves it (I have now banned this from bedtime story reading - it can happen in daytime reading only!)

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ahundredtimes · 24/05/2007 13:00

My dh fascinated by that bit in Maisy where Talullah jumps in the bath with her. He's amazed they made a whole book about it. AND my dh is a writer who knows a good plot when he sees one.

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sarahhal · 24/05/2007 13:00

Thomas the Tank. Just how boring can a series of books be? Feel my eyes closing the moment I start to read them.

Dogsby · 24/05/2007 12:59

yes badly written poundladn books are the pits

Dogsby · 24/05/2007 12:59

and lol at spiders animals in dungarees

IdrisTheDragon · 24/05/2007 12:59

There are some of DS's books I am thinking of "losing". Especially annoying cheap things bought my my mum which have no story.

Dogsby · 24/05/2007 12:58

dont be fresh

arfarfarf

Dogsby · 24/05/2007 12:58

spot - helen

maisy... erm charlie crocdile

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ahundredtimes · 24/05/2007 12:58

Dogsby, I LOVE Burglar Bill. I've got the burglar bill smarts. I read it soooo well now small children clamour for my rendition of 'i'll ave that'.

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Dogsby · 24/05/2007 12:58

i once had a logn argument wiht dh in the car over who spots friends were and whos maisys were

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ahundredtimes · 24/05/2007 12:56

Spot has got some quite dodgy friends hasn't he? It's the hippo called Helen who always makes me feel a little uneasy.

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southeastastra · 24/05/2007 12:55

i really didn't like the thomas books. my son had so many sleepless nights worrying why one engine was bricked up in the tunnel.

Desiderata · 24/05/2007 12:55

Yes, I'd forgotten Pooh books. Eeyore's got every right to be pissed off.

Dogsby · 24/05/2007 12:54

i like burglar bill

Dogsby · 24/05/2007 12:53

here
mummy ahs it away wiht the builder oyu know

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