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Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2nd time - 2/17/2010 6:47:44 PM
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barbhuff
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I figured since we had a "just can't miss" thread that we needed a "don't ever want to read again" thread. I'll chime in once the conversation gets going...
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 2/17/2010 11:54:51 PM
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I don't know if I can even say the title of this book on this board. Let's say it's Walter the dog who passes gas.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 2/19/2010 12:00:54 AM
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You could say Walter The Dog who burps in the tush? LOL I like all children's books and I can read some of them 2, 3 or 10 times. I don't have an answer for you but I do know that book.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/10/2010 1:48:13 AM
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I am currently reading "The Trumpet of the Swan," with my son. I cannot believe how stupid this book is and am sorry I chose it.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/10/2010 1:49:41 PM
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lol....I loved Trumpet of the Swan.
Really repetitive books like...if you give a mouse a cookie (moose a muffin, pig a pancake...you get the idea). I also don't like Sesame Street books because they seem to lack imagination and be overly wordy (there are a few that are better than most). Captain Underpants. The 'problem of the week' Berenstien Bear books (although some of the older ones that take on prepositions or verbs are well done).
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/10/2010 2:02:33 PM
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lol....I loved Trumpet of the Swan.
That's why I picked it. It seems everyone loves this book. I guess I have a lot of trouble with books about animals who are like people. It's hard for me to wrap my brain around them, except for Winne the Pooh.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/10/2010 3:15:36 PM
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Don't read Stuart Little then!
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/10/2010 3:29:23 PM
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Don't read Stuart Little then!
Thanks for the heads up. We have a set of E.B. White books. I can barley tolerate Charlotte's Web, but this swan with a stolen trumpet is just too much for me.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/14/2010 2:46:18 PM
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I love If You Give a Moose a Muffin and If You Give a Pig a Party. Those are two of our favorites. So far, I can't think of a children's book that I wouldn't read again. But I have many years ahead of me.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/14/2010 7:39:04 PM
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ORIGINAL: Auben
Don't read Stuart Little then!
Thanks for the heads up. We have a set of E.B. White books. I can barley tolerate Charlotte's Web, but this swan with a stolen trumpet is just too much for me.
Wow. You may be the first person I've ever encountered who doesn't just love Charlotte.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/28/2010 7:47:13 AM
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I don't know if this is a kid's book; I read it as an adolescent. I think it was called White Fang, and I remember nothing about it except that it was monumentally boring.
I know there is a book by that title, I just don't remember if that was the one I remember as the most boring book I've ever read.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/28/2010 1:56:18 PM
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I am sort of going to re-interpret the question as being things I read as a kid that I couldn't re-read now. Most children's books have really good re-read value for me now, however, there is one BIG exception... The Boxcar Children. The series is great fun as a kid... however, I had tried re-reading the first one as a teenager and was appalled at how bland the writing is. It is fine for a kid at communicating plot, but otherwise there is no value for anyone over the age of, say, 8.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/28/2010 10:02:18 PM
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I am sort of going to re-interpret the question as being things I read as a kid that I couldn't re-read now. Most children's books have really good re-read value for me now, however, there is one BIG exception... The Boxcar Children. The series is great fun as a kid... however, I had tried re-reading the first one as a teenager and was appalled at how bland the writing is. It is fine for a kid at communicating plot, but otherwise there is no value for anyone over the age of, say, 8.
Nods. When I took a children's literature course in grad school I had to read a Nancy Drew book. Awful, awful, awful. Yet, I read over a hundred of them when I was a kid.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/28/2010 10:32:16 PM
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My 12 year old says the same thing.
But my 9 year old loves them.
Of course my 12 year old is currently reading Grimms fairy tales - in the original, not watered down, version!
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/29/2010 12:14:02 AM
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I love Nancy Drew, even now at 55! I have some from when I was a kid and my sister says they are in such good condition I should sell them on E-Bay. I don't think I can part with them though. I also loved Charlotte's Web. I thought it was so much fun but then that may just be me.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/29/2010 9:12:29 AM
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ORIGINAL: TheTheory
I am sort of going to re-interpret the question as being things I read as a kid that I couldn't re-read now. Most children's books have really good re-read value for me now, however, there is one BIG exception... The Boxcar Children. The series is great fun as a kid... however, I had tried re-reading the first one as a teenager and was appalled at how bland the writing is. It is fine for a kid at communicating plot, but otherwise there is no value for anyone over the age of, say, 8.
Nods. When I took a children's literature course in grad school I had to read a Nancy Drew book. Awful, awful, awful. Yet, I read over a hundred of them when I was a kid.
That's why I didn't reread them. My memories of them are still good. 
But did you read the originals? They were edited in the 1960's. They removed the racial slurs and changed some of the plots. The easy way to see it is by checking the page numbers. The originals have over 200 pages, the newer ones about 175.
The new ones are a LOT dumber.
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RE: Children's Books You Just Can't Stomach Reading a 2... - 3/29/2010 8:48:05 PM
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quote:
ORIGINAL: I-Luv-My-Flowers
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ORIGINAL: JustaFan
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ORIGINAL: TheTheory
I am sort of going to re-interpret the question as being things I read as a kid that I couldn't re-read now. Most children's books have really good re-read value for me now, however, there is one BIG exception... The Boxcar Children. The series is great fun as a kid... however, I had tried re-reading the first one as a teenager and was appalled at how bland the writing is. It is fine for a kid at communicating plot, but otherwise there is no value for anyone over the age of, say, 8.
Nods. When I took a children's literature course in grad school I had to read a Nancy Drew book. Awful, awful, awful. Yet, I read over a hundred of them when I was a kid.
That's why I didn't reread them. My memories of them are still good.
But did you read the originals? They were edited in the 1960's. They removed the racial slurs and changed some of the plots. The easy way to see it is by checking the page numbers. The originals have over 200 pages, the newer ones about 175.
The new ones are a LOT dumber.
I read one of the early ones, I think. They also made us read a Sweet Valley High book for the young adult lit class. I did manage to escape reading any Babysitter's Club books. LOL
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