which childrens' books do you NOT like

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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.

I just kept waiting for one of them to put a horse's head in another's carriage.

Damn, and now I can't find that one piece of Thomas slash I found before.

Spot. How does such an inane and boring character get his own book series? I wouldn't mind if he did something interesting i.e. "Spot investigates the dark underbelly of the UK drugs trade" or "Spot becomes a pioneering researcher in the cure for Parkinsons" but the highlight of his life is having his tea, seeing his equally boring friends and having a bath. We really don't need to know.

yes find. Jeez, I remember when Topsy and Tim went into the swimming competition and there was an awful lot of trouble, about I can't remember what.

Katy Morag.
Hate her.

lol diplodocus.

i sitll laugh at topsys hoo ha over hte pink shoes

love those books
a dnthe kdis all love em

here
mummy ahs it away wiht the builder oyu know

i like burglar bill

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

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.

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

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

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'.

spot - helen

maisy... erm charlie crocdile

dont be fresh

arfarfarf

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

and lol at spiders animals in dungarees

yes badly written poundladn books are the pits

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

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.

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

"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!)

come the revolution....

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.

wellhelllllllllllllllllllllo issy!