Comments on: Books People Hate…What’s Your Take?

By: KT Sparkles

KT Sparkles — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:40:38 +0000

THE PAPER BAG PRINCESS!!! My most favorite book as a child and one that I still buy for birthday presents today.

I cannot wait to read it to my kids. 🙂

By: Patty

Patty — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:22:03 +0000

I really disliked Love You Forever, until I read (and adored!) every Robert Munsch book our library owns and realized that he always takes everything to the extreme. It’s not funny like most of the other books, but goes just as far overboard with a mother’s love as he does with the birthday cakes, smelly socks, playhouses, sandcastles and super-indelible-never-come-off-til- you’re-dead-and-maybe-not-even-then markers!

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:06:33 +0000

I absolutely hate The Giving Tree. I think the tree is a chump and the boy is selfish. I also have grown to dislike my once beloved Berenstain Bears…they portray Papa as such a bumbling idiot. I love Curious George, but they are soooo long at naptime when everyonne is tired! My daughters have a Blue’s Clues book with about 10to stories in it that I refuse to read, but they love.
I love Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are and Love You Forever. We’ll have to check out the others listed here.

By: Travis Sherman

Travis Sherman — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:18:03 +0000

I’ve always hated “The Giving Tree”. Shel Silverstein has much to answer for. And the Berentstain Bears will hopefully fade into oblivion.

As for the others on your list… the illustrations from Love you Forever, may not be much, but it was the book which my five year old daughter read to her grandmother the night before she died of cancer. Sometimes a book is a script. Goodnight Moon? Ever notice that it’s a great GREEN room? The world? And that rabbit is lying in bed with his own telephone and a balloon. Just back from a party. Like Where the Wild Things Are, Goodnight Moon is one of those rarities that just gets deeper the more you go down.

By: Maegan

Maegan — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:39:20 +0000

I like all the books you’ve listed.

I HATE “The Giving Tree” that selfish little brat needs a smack upside the head.

My son loves “Dumb Bunnies” (from the library, thank goodness!), but it’s certainly not my cup of tea.