

We parents, after all, are deafened by the cries of tykes who want want want to be read for the 600th time The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, which gets my vote as the worst Dr. We adults, after all, are blinded by sentiment against the narrative demerits and moral dementia of so very many of the classics we were indoctrinated with back. Is Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day the very worst book for young readers? I’ll grant that it’s a tricky question-but only because the question of bad kids’ books is difficult to discuss rationally.
