Children's books that make you feel :?

[hadespussercats]

I'm sorry-- I know there are people here who adore this book, but I hate it. I hate it hate it.

[charlou]

I strongly dislike the term "bastards" in relation (pun not intended obviously ) to people born under "socially unacceptable" circumstances. /aside

[charlou]

I'm sorry-- I know there are people here who adore this book, but I hate it. I hate it hate it.

Why? Is it the anthropomorphic aspect?

[Bella Fortuna]

Yeah, I probably would have too. We had another teacher who had a big anti-nazi thing, who made us read things like "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" (and for some reason a book I think might have been called Someone Something and the Phantom Toolbooth. I'm really dragging the memory lake here so it might be wrong or I might be making it up, my long term memory not easily accessed.

The Phantom Tollbooth is OSSUM!!1!!

One of my favourite books as a child.

Heck yes. Phantom Tollbooth is amazing. Read it to mine when he was a wee one and I got far more out of it because I got all the puns and references.

I have probably hundreds of great kids' books, as I started amassing them when I got pregnant. I'm hanging on to the really good stuff even though he's long outgrown them.

Anyway - back to creepy kids' books...

[Twoflower]

Maybe it's not meant to be taken literally but rather symbolically? But symbolic of what, I couldn't say

I absolutely love this book! I have 2 copies! I do think its not to be taken literally, it's for kids! Most kids books aren't meant to be taken literally. It's symbolic of the never ending love between a mother and child, that no matter he old your child is, he's still your baby.

It could have done that without the weird drawings and breaking and entering moment. It freaked me out as a child as well and I refused to let anyone read it to me.

[Bella Fortuna]

Maybe it's not meant to be taken literally but rather symbolically? But symbolic of what, I couldn't say

I absolutely love this book! I have 2 copies! I do think its not to be taken literally, it's for kids! Most kids books aren't meant to be taken literally. It's symbolic of the never ending love between a mother and child, that no matter he old your child is, he's still your baby.

It could have done that without the weird drawings and breaking and entering moment. It freaked me out as a child as well and I refused to let anyone read it to me.

I just read something elsewhere online about it and they also likened it to Norman Bates.

[Twoflower]

Maybe I should switch my topic to creepy children's books.

[SteveB]

Noah's Ark...for obvious reasons..global genocide and all that fun stuff.

[Kristie]

Maybe it's not meant to be taken literally but rather symbolically? But symbolic of what, I couldn't say

I absolutely love this book! I have 2 copies! I do think its not to be taken literally, it's for kids! Most kids books aren't meant to be taken literally. It's symbolic of the never ending love between a mother and child, that no matter he old your child is, he's still your baby.

It could have done that without the weird drawings and breaking and entering moment. It freaked me out as a child as well and I refused to let anyone read it to me.

It's a book that's bought for all the new moms in my family. I've never heard anyone ever say it was creepy, only that they love it!

[Twoflower]

A lot of my friends are just as disturbed by it as I am. Maybe it's a childless thing.

[Bella Fortuna]

I'm turned off by that book because I have a friend who infantalises her 19-year-old son to an unhealthy degree and it reminds me of her inability to recognise that he's an adult now and treat him as such.

[Twoflower]

[Kristie]

A lot of my friends are just as disturbed by it as I am. Maybe it's a childless thing.

[hadespussercats]

I'm sorry-- I know there are people here who adore this book, but I hate it. I hate it hate it.

Why? Is it the anthropomorphic aspect?

Well, no. Perhaps a bit.

A tree loves a boy with all her heart. He grows up to be a user who takes her love and uses it against her-- talks her out of her limbs, her body, and leaves her a stump. What a hateful story.

I'm sorry. I can't see it any other way. I've tried.

[Bella Fortuna]

Yeah. "My baby" this and "my baby" that. Still calling him by his baby-talk nickname... constantly recounting being pregnant with her miracle baby and saying that she'll always be his mommy. Feeling affectionate and nostalgic about that time in their life is one thing - this just bothers me, though.