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@HabesBabe: Agreed. She just gives and gives and gives and he just takes and takes and takes....DH loves it though! And he hates GNM!
This one is not going to be popular--I'll Love You Forever. I want to love it, I know the backstory of it's writing...but I just think it's kind of creepy the way the mom keeps sneaking into the son's room (with a ladder sometimes!) and rocking him! In the middle of the night! Holy attachment issues Batman!
And what a MIL from hell story! Can you imagine if someone got on here and wrote a post about how her cray-cray MIL sneaks into their bedroom every night through a window and rocks her DH in his sleep??? Boundaries!
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@Sweet T: omg I'm nursing my LO and shaking her I'm laughing so hard. My brother had the boy version and I used to giggle at the pictures. Lmao!! I think I saw it at target within the last year actually
@sloaneandpuffy: LOL! I. Was thinking of I love you forever too. If I ever have a son I hope to god I don't creep on him through his window. Wth? And I'm laughing out loud at the little mr/miss comments too
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@mrs. wagon: lol, I dislike doing all the barking too, but it is one of my son's favourite books, and he's only 6 months old, so I figure if he likes it so much I should go with it. He pretty much likes any book with sound effects. I am learning to enjoy making dog sounds again and again.
@FutureMrsMcK: ha! Boundaries indeed! I actually remember my teacher reading I'll Love You Forever to us at school and like crying and I thought it was very, very strange.
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My mom got my son "5 Little Pumpkins" for Halloween - dude, it's a scary book. The pumpkins roll away like decapitated heads in the night at the end.
@FutureMrsMcK: I love that book even if creepy! makes me cry every time! My husband haaaates it for the reasons you stated!
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@mrs. wagon: I don't like Doggies either! But LO always giggles up a storm when we read it!
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We grabbed a book from the discount bin at Walmart last week, it was just some sort of Halloween book. Get home and realize it's called "Watcha Wanna Be?". Those aren't even real words and thats just the title. Ugh. How are these things being published?
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@mrs. wagon: I always skip over that book too. Arf Arf Woof Woof. Ugh!
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@Honeybee: omg. Curious George used to bother me so much because pretty much the premise of EVERY book is that George is curious... and DISOBEDIENT, and MISCHEVIOUS. Yes, he always fixes what he's done wrong in the end and everyone is happy, but hello, if he had just stayed put like the man in the yellow hat told him to, he wouldn't have made the problems in the first place!!! I don't want to teach my kid that it's ok to wander off and do things just because you're curious... and it's all ok in the end as long as you make up for what you did wrong when you outright disobeyed. Haha.
BUT it's now Wagon Jr.'s favorite thing to do before bedtime... to read one or two George books... so whatever. Haha.
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I'm a children's librarian, so I have many, many thoughts on this topic. I also hate Love You Forever and The Giving Tree (although Munsch and Silverstein have other books for kids I love like The Paper Bag Princess and Where the Sidewalk Ends), but the one that actually creeps me out is The Lonely Doll. We have this book in my library and it goes out all the time (by adults who remember it from their childhoods). Anyone seen this before?
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I cant think of one personally, but hubby hates "I love you forever" he thinks it's super creepy the old lady climbing in her sons window haha I never thought of it that way, because I've always thought it was a cute book, but I guess I could see how he thinks it's creepy!
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OMG @sotomorrow that CANNOT be real! I am so disturbed!!!
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@prettylizy: Haha! I would have been annoyed by that, too. Like, thanks for teaching my child to speak incorrectly.
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@kpow: It's very real, I promise. Actually it's a series, but we only have that one.
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@meredithNYC: I know. Next thing we know they'll be publishing books called 'That BB is soo adorbs!" Sigh.
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My friend was gifted a book for her daughter about the legend of Sleeping Bear Dunes, which is in northern Michigan where we live. It's an actual Native American legend, and the artwork is beautiful, and Sleeping Bear Dunes is breathtaking, but the story is kind of dark.
It's about a mother bear and her cubs who have to swim across Lake Michigan from Wisconsin because of a forest fire. The cubs can't keep up and drown and then the momma bear waits on the shore for them for the rest of her life and dies of a broken heart.
As a kid who cried when Bambi's mom died and when Mufasa was trampled, I don't think I could have handled that as a child! It made me sad now and I'm 28.
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@JamieLee: I'm from Leelanau County too! My parents still live in the area, but I'm downstate now. That book is actually the official Michigan state picture book, if you can believe it. (Anyone who's curious: it's The Legend of Sleeping Bear by Kathy-jo Wargin and illustrated by Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen)
I always loved that story as a kid, even though it is so sad!
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@sotomorrow: I'm the exact opposite of you actually. I'm from downstate and moved up here to be with my hubby who grew up in Suttons Bay. Love it here!
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Some parts of "I'll love you forever" are kinda creepy to me
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I hate, hate, hate "Rainbow Fish" and have since I was a kid. It's a very long annoying book instilling the virtues of not being a total dick, but it also goes on to say you should only curtail your dickishness if strange Octopie tell you to. Screw your starfishy friend!
@Mrsbells: Seriously? I love that book! Although the Robert Munsch reading on tape is creepy as HELL- he sings, and the man should just not sing...ever.
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@sotomorrow: Wow, that is SUPER creepy!
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@sloaneandpuffy: I was wondering if someone would say that because I remember another thread where everyone hated it. I have always LOVED I Love you forever - my mom always read it to us and would cry every time!
@sotomorrow: Ooooh I do remember that book! I read it as a kid. I don't remember thinking it was creepy though... maybe because I got spanked so much (I was a naughty kid hahah!)...?
@JamieLee: that sounds heartbreaking. I could never read a book like that.
@mrs. wagon: AGREED!!! I hate Curious George for that reason. I plan to try and dodge that bullet and just avoid those books/movies altogether.
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@HabesBabe: I love The Giving Tree!! I don't see how it's sexist?
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@Crumbs: ever read Aesops fables? I realized recently that they are... crazy and have awful endings.
Oh! and the mother goose rhymes! Has anyone ever really read them?
"The Queen of Hearts
She made some tarts,
All on a summer's day;
The Knave of Hearts
He stole those tarts,
And took them clean away.
The King of Hearts
Called for the tarts,
And beat the knave full sore;
The Knave of Hearts
Brought back the tarts,
And vowed he'd steal no more." -
@Honeybee: that does sound creepy. Not sure I ever read it.
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@Coco Bee: Mother Goose rhymes are all awful, lol:
Goosey goosey gander,
Whither shall I wander?
Upstairs and downstairs
And in my lady's chamber.
There I met an old man
Who wouldn't say his prayers,
So I took him by his left leg
And threw him down the stairs.Really?!
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@Honeybee: hahahah I KNOW RIGHT!!! They are violent and mean
Or the lady who lives in the shoe!! I think my mom must have reworded it because the version I heard growing up was, "there was an old lady who lived in a shoe, she had so many children she didn't know what to do. She fed them some broth and some bread then kissed them all soundly and sent them to bed."
So not that weird...
then someone gifted me a book of rhymes for DS when I was pg and I read the REAL version:
"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread;
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@Coco Bee: DD has a toddler songs cd with a version of Jack and Jill I had never heard before:
Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.Jack got up and said to Jill, as in his arms he took her,
"Brush off that dirt, 'cuz you're not hurt; go fetch my pail of water."ETA: Jack's kind of a jerk in that one!
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@Coco Bee: Like @FutureMrsMcK said... the tree (a woman) gives, gives, gives, gives, and the boy/man just takes and takes. She gives everything and is just happy being a stump after the selfish man has taken everything. I don't know why, it just irks me.
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@chopsuey119: i don't mind dr seuss but i hate the illustrations.
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@HabesBabe: Ooooh okay... in my head I was seeing the tree as a male too. I forgot it was a woman.
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We have this old nursery rhyme book called "pudding and pie" it is terrible and a bit disturbing disturbing.
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@Honeybee: there is a version of it in the book we have that they go home and Jack gets mended by mom then Jill comes in and laughs so the mom whips Jill.
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My poor baby - I am hellobee'ing while she's nursing and laughing so hard I'm shaking her. Oh boy.
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Any of the REAL fairy tales! yipes
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Hahahaha ... we have a book that makes animal fart sounds. A gift, of course. I nominate that one.
I love me some Goodnight Moon, but you can add me to the list of Seuss haters
Oh, and I also don't like "Where the Wild Things Are." I find Max and his scowl obnoxious.
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How about the traditional lullabye??
Rock a bye baby, on the treetop
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock
When the bow breaks, the cradle will fall
And down will come baby, cradle and allWHO came up with these?!?!? No doubt some sleep-deprived parent in colonial times...
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@sotomorrow: that is TERRIBLE!!!
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@mrs. wagon: my mom always changed the words to that one for me too!
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@Coco Bee: I have several older books of nursery rhymes, and they have the "unsanitized" versions of Mother Goose. Thank the British for those; they almost all came from across the pond.
(And if you want a real doozy, check out "Who Killed Cock Robin.")But for a real kick, you have to read some of the French nursery rhymes/songs. Ever heard "Alouette"? The Americanized (English) version I learned to play and sing when I was little had some nonsense about a hat and dress on a little owl, but the actual French version is about how they're going to pluck the bird's feathers out (it's actually a lark, not an owl). An important lesson in poultry cookery for the preschool set!
Also, for everyone who dislikes the Margaret Wise Brown stuff, (I generally agree) try "The Big Red Barn." It was illustrated by someone else, and it's got a decent rhyme scheme.
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@cyndistar3: Lol, that's awful!
Oh, and I also don't like "Where the Wild Things Are." I find Max and his scowl obnoxious.
(And if you want a real doozy, check out "Who Killed Cock Robin.")
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