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Any children's books you want to ban?

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pointydog · 21/04/2007 10:05

Do you try to stop your child coming into contact with books that you do not approve of? Are there any you ban from the house?

I know someone who does not want Horrid Henry in the house.

I think this is extreme.

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Blackduck · 22/04/2007 11:15

Thomas - they are so bl**dy boring......

agnesnitt · 23/04/2007 00:12

No books are banned, there are just some which I choose to not read with my daughter. She has had disney books bought for her, and they remain unread, as even she is not interested in them.

Agnes

seeker · 23/04/2007 00:28

I think the ballet books are by Lorna Hill, chocolateirl

bonniedarko · 23/04/2007 00:39

pppppsssssssssssssssstttttttttttt Agnes,..........you don't need to sign your name after a post, it comes up anyway

bonniedarko · 23/04/2007 00:46

chocolattegirl see here

Hallgerda · 23/04/2007 09:48

Mine are all free-ranging in the library now, so I'd never manage a ban. I do restrict them to just the one Asterix/Tintin (used to be one Redwall/Goosebumps too, but fortunately none of them are reading those at the moment.)

NearlyThree, if you have now read Watership Down you may find the Kama Sutra deeply uncomfortable...

RosaLuxembourg · 23/04/2007 11:43

My nine year old has read the Drina series this year Chocolate girl - start collecting now as they have been out of print for several years and the last few are hard to get hold of - I picked them all up over the years in charity shops but some go for £££ on Ebay - the last Drina Ballerina (no 11 in series) that came up went for £37!!!

GameGirly · 23/04/2007 11:46

Princess effing Diaries. So fed up with DD1 reading them over and over and over again. Jacqueline Wilson - I'm not fond of her either.

hannahsaunt · 24/04/2007 11:15

Ds1 is becoming increasingly unbearable thanks to Horrid Henry and we are at the stage of removing them (and the wretched CD) as at 6.5 he is proving incapable of distinguishing between extreme naughtiness as a part of the story and acceptable behaviour. The latest thing is name-calling and I am sick to the back teeth of reiterating the name-calling is unacceptable so I'm afraid HH is for the chop in our house until there is a significant improvement. Beginning to understand why Grange Hill was banned as I was growing up.

ihatethegym · 24/04/2007 13:20

'Who's in the loo' - what a horrid book! My daughter's nursery read it to her, needless to say allllll the little darlings thought it was hilarious and my little angel wanted a copy. Let her have one, read it to her once and then pointed out that I did not think it was a nice book, and I did not want to read it to her again! She however thinks it is the bees knees and very funny!

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pointydog · 24/04/2007 17:25

Quite nice to know, in a way, that books can have such a powerful effect, hannah.

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moonshine · 24/04/2007 17:29

Those blimmin never-ending Fairy books. Wonder when they are going to actually publish Charlie the Cash Cow Fairy.

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pointydog · 24/04/2007 17:47

I'm waiting for the boy series about pirates.

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moonshine · 24/04/2007 17:58

Don't start putting those kind of ideas about - I have a ds as well!

slayerette · 24/04/2007 18:16

Secondary school teacher here - would be intrested to hear from anyone who knows what the book 'Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging' is all about because I've never actucally read it...Am I being unfair to just assume that the horrific title tells me all I need to know about the quality of the book...?

slayerette · 24/04/2007 18:17

interested - great English teacher I am...

slayerette · 24/04/2007 18:18

and actually

[slinks off to learn to type]

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pointydog · 24/04/2007 18:19

oo I've heard of that. I'm interested too...

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ellceeell · 24/04/2007 19:13

dd1 read Angus etc when she got given the book to review - at primary school! I read it too and found it surprisingly ............... good. Funny, and fairly well written - but NOT suitable for a 10 yr old. dd1 reread it when she was 14 and still enjoyed it, but was amazed that she'd been allowed to read it as a child. She said she understood much more this time round

I bought "The mole who knew it was none of his business" for dd2 after seeing people on MN raving about it. I thought it was great but my SIL has banned her children from reading it as she thought it was disgusting.

MissM · 06/05/2007 20:13

I can't honestly understand why anyone would ban a child from reading anything. Surely if they're showing an interest in reading then that's a good thing, especially if they're boys? It doesn't matter if it's a fairy book or War and Peace - at least they're reading! Isn't it better to let them have books which you feel are age-approriate and save the older ones for later? And why are death and divorce such no-nos? Where else are children going to learn how to deal with difficult emotions if such awful events happen to them? I read 'It's Not the End of the World' by Judy Blume as a kid, and when my parents divorced as an adult found myself going back to it to help me deal with some of the emotions it raised for me. Dissuade a child from reading a book if you think it's inappropriate by all means, but ban at your peril.

MissM · 06/05/2007 20:15

Also, I'm hard-pushed to think what I would ban a child from reading, unless it was outwardly racist or extremely violent.

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