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147 books · 35 voters · list created May 2nd, 2010 by Kyle (votes) .
Tags: children-s, worst
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Kyle 262 books
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Amanda 1688 books
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Antoine 949 books
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Eli 4 books
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Aaron 15 books
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Kelly 1824 books
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Laura 82 books
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Amber 860 books
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Comments Showing 1-15 of 15 (15 new)

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message 1: by Antoine (new)

Antoine Someone needs to rescue Babar from this list.


message 2: by Kelly (new)

Kelly I loved Babar, and still do!


message 3: by Christina (new)

Christina Berenstain bears are AWESOME!!!!


message 4: by Anna (new)

Anna I strong dislike with the Bernstein bears and Babar!! You must remove them at once, they aren't the worst.


message 5: by Amara (new)

Amara Tanith You can't remove another person's votes just because you don't agree with them. As a matter of fact, the note on the edit page states that anyone caught doing so will face loss of librarian status and possible account deletion.

Just an FYI.


message 6: by LadyS (new)

LadyS  who the heck put The Bernstein Bears on this list? clearly they dont understand childhood..bout worst children's books?!?! My goodness!


message 7: by LadyS (new)

LadyS  Anna wrote: "I strong dislike with the Bernstein bears and Babar!! You must remove them at once, they aren't the worst."

my sentiments exactly!


message 8: by Stacie (new)

Stacie Heiner I love these books and so do my boys please don't delete them.


message 9: by Emy (new)

Emy This is a terrible list, there are some good books on here!


message 10: by Nanny (new)

Nanny 'Love You Forever' should be number 1. 'The Hungry Caterpillar' should be number 2.


message 11: by Cydnei (new)

Cydnei Mitchell Message 4 is wrong


message 12: by Cydnei (new)

Cydnei Mitchell 2012 is when i was born!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


message 13: by Cydnei (new)

Cydnei Mitchell And message 7 is wrong


message 14: by Jake (new)

Jake This list is garbage. The bernstain Bears books are amazing books.


message 15: by Jackie Childress (last edited Jul 05, 2025 08:40AM) (new)

Jackie Childress Why are these books considered the worst? It’s fine to list them, but explain in one statement next to it, why they are considered the worst. And based on what criteria? How many have to say it’s the worst to make the list? Knowing these answers would give me more information to make an informed decision about whether to spend the money to buy them or not, Thank you,


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