What are some of the worst Children’s books you’ve read? I’ll go first..

Started buying some of my old childhood favorite books for my daughter and am currently realizing how terrible some of these “lessons” they are trying to teach the reader..

I’m all for regular story books with no moral lesson like “good night moon” but some of the ones with moral lessons kinda shocked me.

For example:

Rainbow Fish: Rainbow fish is born with shiny scales that makes them stand out from everyone else.

Other fishes keep asking rainbow fish for some of their scales so they can look shiny too.

Rainbow fish says no, they are apart of me.

Fish keep asking and they keep saying no.

Until the entire school of fish alienate them and rainbow fish is alone and crying.

So they give in and start giving out their scales to everyone and now rainbow fish is happy because they gave away the thing they were born with to make them special and now everyone looks the same.. The end.

I get that they were trying to teach sharing. But that could’ve been done with a bunch of cookies or something that rainbow fish was given and had too much of.. NOT SOMETHING RAINBOW FISH WAS BORN WITH!

That little difference makes the book so shocking to me as an adult.. never realized it as a kid. I only remember the shiny holographic scales lol.