I don't have kids, but I have purchased children's books and, you know, most of them are awful, some of them are awful and your children will love them anyway (making them perhaps not awful after all), some of them are awful in the way described in this column, some of them are designed to appeal to parents and not their children which is good marketing but also bad, and, most importantly, there are 87 billion of them and probably you can choose some other ones.