Children's books that don't quite rhyme

[PolarBlair]

Does anyone else find this so annoying?
I have no problem with books that don't rhyme at all.
Then there are geniuses like Julia Donaldson and Dr Seuss where it rhymes and flows so well.

But the ones I find so annoying are the ones where the syllables are off, the rhymes are not quite rhymes (in any accent), the same word has been used twice to make line A & B rhyme.

These are often self published but do the authors not realise? Do they not ask friends?

I often want to take a red pen, correct them, and send them back

That's an easy fix too.

'The next part is scary so reader take care,
Or you'll likely be needing some new underwear!'

If there’s a celeb name on the cover they’ll publish any old bollocks. Meanwhile other people are writing stuff that’s actually good but they can’t get published.

I have no issue with imperfect (slant) rhymes. Some of the best poets used them. They can actually be more rewarding and less tiring than perfect rhymes, if done well. And that's a big if.

I.e. Shakespeare, temperate and date don't quite rhyme.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Dr Seuss also often uses imperfect rhyme or changes a word to make it rhyme.

Nimbly with Chimbly in the Grinch.
Rhyming Houses with mouses.

Going to song. Dylan rhymes Spoken with Ocean rather well:

And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they’re spoken
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean

I always hear this in my head as sung by Derek Griffiths and Floella Benjamin on Play School (we used to have the record at home):