https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 22 May 2026 06:39:12 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/3#post-2473888 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:04:41 +0000 nana87 2473888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@honeybear: wow 63 pages?? there's only 26 letters, lol! i'm excited to read the original, I just ordered it from Amazon </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/3#post-2473882 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:01:50 +0000 honeybear 2473882@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Astro Bee: Glad to be of service! :) Definitely get the original. I think it's fantastic! </p> <p>@nana87: I agree! But I think it mostly had to do with length, the original has 63 pages. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/3#post-2473878 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:58:41 +0000 honeybear 2473878@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>To answer the question, I make the lousy books disappear, and I'm relatively selective at the library. There are plenty of excellent books, no need to spend time on ones that aren't. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473866 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:53:14 +0000 Astro Bee 2473866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@honeybear: Thanks for chiming in. We don't have that one (either version), and I was wondering what the deal was. Maybe I'll wait until we are no longer needing board books to buy it! I like most Seuss books. </p> <p>We have two versions of Green Eggs and Ham (which I really like). One has flaps, and is annoying to read because you have to open them to read certain lines, and LO likes to play with them, so it's sometimes hard to read in order, which messes up the rhyming scheme. Actually, now that I think of it, I hate reading that version! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473863 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:50:10 +0000 nana87 2473863@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@honeybear: that's so weird that they changed it!! I understand changing it for one of the really long books--like, mil has the board book version of "Fox in Socks" and obviously that one needs to be edited down since it's soooo long--but the ABCs??? We should get the original since lo loves it! Especially the Zizzer Zazzer Zuzz for some reason, lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473859 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 09:46:59 +0000 honeybear 2473859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: @Pancakes: Okay, I have to come to Dr. Seuss's rescue on this one! I love him. The two versions are totally different! We have both, so here is how they stack up on this all-important issue of the letter K: </p> <p>Original: "BIG K little k Kitten. Kangaroo. Kick a kettle. Kite and a king's kerchoo."</p> <p>Board book: "BIG K little k, what begins with K? Kangaroo and kite. K...k...K." </p> <p>The board book was "adapted from" the original per the inside cover, and personally, I like it a lot less. It doesn't have the same rhyme scheme as the original, the mice in the moonlight don't mumble mighty nicely, and the Fiffer-feffer-feff has multicolored feathers. I want to know who had the balls to mess with a Dr. Seuss drawing? Sacrilege! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473723 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 08:53:49 +0000 Anagram 2473723@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@fussygal: Aww...I love Olivia! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473527 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:16:40 +0000 Pancakes 2473527@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: haha, I had to go into my DD's room and look at the book. Yes, the board book version must be different! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473449 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:12:23 +0000 nana87 2473449@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsBrewer: @Pancakes: ohh hmm we have the board book version and maybe it's different? It has the line "k-k-k" in it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473431 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:04:20 +0000 Pancakes 2473431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@nana87: Kick a kettle/kite/and a king's KERCHOO? (from memory, not sure if that's exactly right)...The "kerchoo" used to crack my DD up when she was a baby. I have a certain fondness for Dr. Seuss's ABC :)</p> <p>@lady grey: The Froggy books are the worst! Whenever Froggy responds to his parents with "WHAAAAAAAT??" I change the words to "Yes sir?" "Yes ma'am?" :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473377 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:19:36 +0000 Mrs. Lion 2473377@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: It annoys the mess out of me that after the animals in the goodnight book get ready for bed they go upstairs and exercise! Who does that?!? That makes no sense! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473370 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:14:35 +0000 farawayyama 2473370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skipra: Me too! I always `end up saying "Pahnts" to preserve the rhyme.</p> <p>I also can't stand goodnight moon. That room gives me the heebie jeebies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473335 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:40:02 +0000 erinbaderin 2473335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: I feel like that too! Just let your kid tell you he loves you without always having to say you love him more! It makes me crazy. </p> <p>I can't think of names right now but we have a few books where the rhyme scheme is off and it makes me crazy, I have to rewrite the lines so that the metre is right.</p> <p>Some of the Boynton books bother me in places - my husband hates in Hey Wake Up where they tell the elephant that he's too big to use the swings and he has to go do big guy things, and in Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs where they say the dinosaurs aren't cute. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473260 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:49:25 +0000 maddyz 2473260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@simplyfelicity: the pictures in that book are so nice, but it's so so creepy i can't handle it.</p> <p>Also hate guess how much I love you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473252 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:38:13 +0000 pastemoo 2473252@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Whenever I don't like one I "return it to the library". And thank goodness he doesn't know which are ours and which are the library's</p> <p>i hate the doggies book by sandra boynton but don't have the heart to throw it away.<br /> i love a bunch of the "long" books that some of the pps hate. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473233 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:18:58 +0000 petitenoisette 2473233@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayLou: Oh yea, those are terrible too. We have Finding Nemo and it's really super dark in non-animated form! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473225 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 18:12:11 +0000 Lilbear 2473225@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hate "Guess How Much I Love You" with a passion. I don't understand why big nut down hair has to keep "one upping" his/her own kid!!! Just let your freaking kid express that they love you a lot!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473077 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:16:45 +0000 Astro Bee 2473077@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! I'll love you forever!!! So creepy. MIL gave it to us. Actually, about half the books she gave us I hate. Could be a coincidence...</p> <p>Others I dislike are: Mortimer (all the crash, clang, bang, etc.), Thomas's Snowsuit (I don't know what the point is), plus all the books we have pictures but no story in them. There are a few that only DH will read, and I've deliberately blocked them out of my memory. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2473024 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:49:08 +0000 MrsKoala 2473024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, Love You Forever is just weird... luckily, he doesn't like it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472985 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:24:59 +0000 chopsuey 2472985@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't do Dr. Seuss books. 😖 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472984 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:24:49 +0000 mediagirl 2472984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@lioneyes: haha those Curious George books are sooooo long but my daughter loves them so much. And they're good books with a good story so I usually don't mind reading one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472979 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:21:17 +0000 LindsayLou 2472979@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Any book that's a tv show or movie transcribed into a book. The family I nanny for has Inside Out in book form from the library right now. So, so long. I cringe when it's picked. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472974 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:16:06 +0000 youboots 2472974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: funny those are my faves right now.@Mrs. Lion: @simplyfelicity: I almost threw it out the first time I read it. I think I'll donate it to the library. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472967 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:11:49 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 2472967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: @simplyfelicity: @Cherrybee: THANK YOU. I can't believe this thread got this far without that one mentioned. Our former nanny gave it to us as a goodbye present so I haven't gotten rid of it ... but, uh, I hid it. SO CREEPY AND WRONG.</p> <p>Also not really a Seuss fan! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472965 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:09:29 +0000 Cherrybee 2472965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: @simplyfelicity: OMG, this book!! WTF?? My BFF bought it for E because she loves reading it to her son and I was like "whaaaaaat????" when I read it. So creepy! </p> <p>I also hate Dr Seuss books because they are so bloody long abd E loves them! Gah! </p> <p>Also - Stick Man. That book is utter shite. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472961 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:07:55 +0000 lioneyes 2472961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>all dr seuss (board books- ugh); dragons love tacos (thought it sounded so cute but it's not!); guess how much i love/i'll love you forever/on the night you were born/goodnight sleepy bears/anything overly cheesy or lame.</p> <p>we are very into curious george at my house now (the original books from the '60's, we have a whole set that was mine) and while i love them, they are SO LONG. sometimes i abbreviate... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472957 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:05:57 +0000 rattles 2472957@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Suppose You Meet a Dinosaur - We were gifted this one, and it's a Scholastic book. I hate it because of a page in the middle that goes "the dinosaur is worried that this brickle snack will make her fat" or some such. I change the words. Why in the world would a book on manners for toddlers also introduce body shaming? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472946 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:59:10 +0000 petitenoisette 2472946@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Applesandbananas: I love me some Sandra Boynton but that one is rough! I only read it if I'm feeling extra silly. I read all the others all the time!! </p> <p>I hate "The Little Red Hen" and now that I looked it up I dislike even more: "The Little Red Hen offers a moralistic tale of the importance of hard work and the shame as well as consequences of laziness without the use of religious quotes." -Wikipedia.<br /> I think I'm actually going to donate that one... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472908 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:37:49 +0000 gingerbebe 2472908@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not exactly a kid book, but when I read the first 2 Twilight books I was like HOW IS THIS WRITTEN FOR TEENAGERS!? THIS IS AWFUL! I stopped reading them and swore I would never let a daughter of mine read such drivel. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-kids-books-do-you-hate/page/2#post-2472854 Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:58:04 +0000 simplyfelicity 2472854@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lion: JINX! </p>