Perhaps there are a few more that you could add to the list, share below!
1. The Princess and the Pea
Why kids love it: Princesses! Mattresses piled way up to the ceiling! Awesome!
Why parents can’t stand it: Here’s a great message, kids. Complain your ass off, and you’ll marry into royalty.
2. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day
Why kids love it: Few children can stifle a laugh when somebody gets gum stuck in their hair or a crocodile shows up at a birthday party.
Why parents can’t stand it: Holy whiner! Is this kid seriously complaining about not getting dessert after lunch?
3. No, David!
Why kids love it: What could be more fun than seeing another child do all the things you’ve been repeatedly told not to do?
Why parents can’t stand it: No parent reads this book to their kid without saying a silent prayer that their L.O. doesn’t pick up David’s abhorable behavior. Also, David is terrifying.
4. Love You Forever
Why kids love it: They get to watch a bathroom-trashing toddler who’s about their age grow up before their very own eyes.
Why parents can’t stand it: It’s friggin’ creepy. What parent sneaks into their grown child’s room via ladder in order to rock them? Talk about enmeshment…
5. Rainbow Fish
Why kids love it: It’s practically impossible not to be captivated by a beautiful, sparkly fish, swimming through the ocean, chatting it up with other sea folk.
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