Jumping off the favorite books thread, I thought of this last night when DS chose a book at bedtime that is NOT my favorite. There just seems to be some books that are his favorites, but definitely not mine. While some are outright bad, some are okay and just give you the "eye-rolls". (What DH says I do every time he chooses the book he did last night)
Ours last night was a book called "Handy Lamb". Not only is it not great verse and has a cheesy female fixer-upper premise, the darn thing has a stuffed lamb head on the last page that fits in a cutout through all the other pages - but makes it nearly impossible to fit on a bookshelf with other books. I have to arrange the whole bottom shelf of the bookcase to fit it...
Another one that is hard in our house is "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." While actually a great book, it always leaves us in a discussion too hard for DS to understand. The author obviously did NOT grow up on the East coast and I did. In our house, "Aunts" and "pants" DON'T rhyme. It always goes like this...
"Mamas and papas and uncles and aunts hug their little dears, then dust their pants."
"Mommy, shouldn't it be "ponts"? (phonetically)
"Well, yes, maybe. That would make it 'match'. Mr. Martin who wrote the book doesn't say it the way Mommy does."
"Why does he say it wrong?"....
And on and on. A five minute book always becomes a 15 minute discussion on accents and people living in different parts of the country and ends in the "But why IS their house where it is?" question that can't be answered. Ugh.
Anybody have a list to add?