Which is your most hated book for reading aloud to your DCs

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It has to be almost any of the Mr Men books, for me. They are unreadable. I seriously doubt that anyone bothered to read them aloud at any point during the editorial process (a criticism that could be leveled at any number of books published today too.)Reading them aloud is like the verbal equivalent of walking barefoot over broken bricks.

Come on, dish the dirt. Which ones really make your heart sink when your child hands them to you to read out?

Ooh not a fan of MR Men either, and Miffy is rubbish for reading aloud which is disappointing.

we read the snail and the whale tonight - love that one.

my worst one is a book we found in a car boot sale called Mac and Lauren, it's dreadful, i must remember to hide it! Of course it is ds's absolute favourite...! grr

I always hated Postman Pat and Thomas but I save most of my bile for You Choose! my 7 yr still gets it out and I start screaming inwardly. He never ever bloody deviates.

Harpo just had another look at your link and I do believe we only have the one book -The great Supermarket Robbery. Didn't realise there was a double whammy. Have not had the pleasure of the pie one, but am sure tis equally as fab.

DH's copy is inscribed (in childish hand): to X on his 6th birthday. Love from Fleur.

Who Fleur is, and what she's doing now, I do not know, but she's a blardy legend in our house.

At the moment it's having DS 'read' Three Little Pigs to me. I know I am an ungrateful old bag and I am proud of my clever PFB's feat of memory and near-reading but aaaargh it goes on forever.

Mr Men books, and also Charlie and Lola books. I can't stand the syntax of Charlie and Lola books, makes them very hard to read.

How can you not like Ricardo of scarry?Sacrelidge.

You lot wait till you have read all of ORT three times.

The only redeeming line is " what a soggy doggy" when floppy falls in on " The Rope Swing"

I was really looking forward to that until dc3 was diagnosed as G and T and we jumped 10 levels.

and had great taste in books, Merrylegs.

the Great Pie Robbery is indeed fab, it left me with a lifelong craving for cherry pie that I am only occasionally able to satisfy.

Comma, it's not that I don't like him, it's just that I have read Cars and Trucks and Things that Go a kerjillion squillion times - it is completely worn through, pages falling out, cover falling off. And they are so long too. And while I love Wild Bill Hiccup and Rudolph Strudel and Co, the Counting Book is actually a bit shit. Willy Bunny counting 60 frogs on a beach. Noooooooooooooooo!

Comma I have NEVER forgiven Richard Scarry for having one of his characters plant a cooked sweetcorn kernel (can't remember in which book).
I loved them as a child, but have now tactfully 'left them at Nanny's so that she can have the pleasure of reading them'

(Forgot to say, said cooked kernel grows into a plant)

Has to be Little Red Hen - every bloody page, 'not I said the dog, not I said the ....... aaagh. Tried to relieve the boredom by coming up with new voices for each animal every night but novelty was short-lived.

I like Mr Men books, I can't stand those Disney books where they summarise the films (Bambi, Tarzan etc) really badly. Also don't like those books for very young children where you have to make the sound of an aeroplane whooshing or an ambulance nee naa-ing or a boat splish splash sploshing.

Also not a fan of any version of The Gigantic Turnip and The Gingerbread Man.

In the Night Garden - specifically Iggle Piggle's Lost His Blanket.

Drives me nuts that one.

ah, The Gigaaaantic Turnipzzzz........

the repetition. the worthiness. the dreariness.

I used to vet books before I introduced them to DS - those I didn't like never made it onto the reading list. Unfortunately, Grandma passed on the entire set of Mr Men, lovingly preserved from when my husband was a child in the 1970s. And gave them directly to DS. I loathed them. I also remember book which combined a checkered elephant and pushing buttons for sound effects which was left behind somewhere pdq (gift from my sister). Self inflicted (and subsequently regretted) were any rip the flap books. I should have known better.

Have just fallen asleep ("DADDY WAKE UP") whilst reading the whole of "Louise The Lily Fairy" to DD1. It sent me off but totally failed to bore her sufficiently.

That is the point of those books isn't it?

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It has to be Ant and flipping Bee. I loved these as a child but find them impossible to read now. DH feels the same and we have secretly moved them to the top of the bookshelf

I know this is an old thread, but I needed somewhere to scream I HATE FIREMAN BLOODY SAM!

Ahhhh and relax

....mr men..
....bob the builder...
....thomas tank.....
....longwinded disney books....
YAWN!!!!

Pippy Longstocking makes me grind my teeth.

She just looks like she needs a good wash and the stories are so frigging long.

hate to say this as DD adores them but the Charlie and Lola books I find awful! The clunky prose: "he said, she said, he said, she said"

illustrations fantastic but content is not there.

Clarice Beans are great though

I really can't believe no one has mention this piece of s**t HUG.

I to agree Mr Men is absolutely vile to read!!

Urgh this is also a pain to read urgh