A rain-soaked woman who claims to be of royal stock turns up at his castle seeking shelter.

Get a load of this one: A picky prince cannot find a suitable bride. Therefore, tentatively, I will declare the worst children’s book of all time to be “The Princess and The Pea,” a sharply dumb little thing that has ensnared many a parent by virtue of being the briefest story in many Hans Christian Andersen collection. Besides, one wants to give the author, with her talent for Freudian matters, the benefit of a doubt, and to suppose that the book offers little kids the sick cathartic pleasure of Alexander’s meaningless suffering. I am not sure that Alexander, despite its awards, regardless of its Hollywoodization, has enough cultural weight to sink to a record-low depth. (It is written in prose and without attractive prosody: There’s no rhythm and rhyme to serve as auto-pilot technology guiding an adult through brainless declamations where the words take an express route the optic nerve to the vocal apparatus.) And meanwhile you simpletons with your treacle-coated claptrap reflexively cheering any interaction between a human child and a printed word are not at all to be trusted, and probably worse than illiterates. 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.

A great story.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. About a boy who just has a bad day, something any kid can relate to. 'Not so much for preschool because it's a more formulated story and it's in black and white, but my 5 yr old loves it. If you watched the movie and haven't read this book, I fear you're done yourself a great injustice. I'm dimly aware they made a movie based on the book, though I have no idea why. I loved this one as a kid, and I love it all the more as a grown-up reading it to my boys. So to check if we have the book in-stock before you place your order, contact us at 6702 2452 or drop us an email at Level: 6+ *Despite our best efforts to predict the demand for books, the magical spells we use sometimes fail us. This handsome new edition of Judith Viorst's classic picture book is sure to charm readers of all ages.

And, on top of all that, there were lima beans for dinner and kissing on TV! Alexander knew it was going to be a terrible day when he woke up with gum in this hair.

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