The Worst Canonical Kids’ Books and What to Replace Them With

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Recently over at Slate, Gabriel Roth made a very good argument for the basic awfulness of  Janette Sebring Lowrey’s The Poky Little Puppy, postulating that the only reason that book  and books like it persist in our cultural consciousness is because of the nostalgia effect — my  mom read this to me, so I’d better read it to my kids, etc. But there is another way! Why not  replace some of those canonical (but actually boring, or lame, or morally questionable) kids’   books with some better ones, and stop the nostalgia cycle in its tracks? To that end, please  find below a list of canonical children’s books that could be retired, and which books, new and old, to read… Read More