ranking books that ruined my childhood
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Sooo like how The Very Hungry Caterpillar was about CAPITALISM, give me your best ~ niche ~ analysis of your fave childhood novel.
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“Don’t read a classic thinking you’re going to get twilight” 📝
its a jungle out there
My niche analysis of the rainbow fairies is that they were an allegory for Plato’s forms: there was a fairy for absolutely everything, and they fit into a hierarchy as some fairies are more important than others and represent concepts instead of objects thank you for coming to my Ted talk
This. Just this.
omg
holy-
Rainbow fairy books be like : Bleach the Public Sanitation Fairy
Also did anyone read the Warrior Cats books? I think I read almost every single book in the extended series, all the stand-alone, even the first manga series. But they were so violent, the cats would be literally killing each other, drowning, kittens getting snatched by eagles like wtf ???😅
Yes. YES I DID READ WARRIORS. Ya, they were super violent but I. Couldn’t. Stop. I also read Survivors. I also remember that on Animal Jam (Nat Geo Online Game) there was a bunch of kids who read Warriors and would create clans and act out scenes. I mayhaps been one of those kids. 🙄😅
I didnt just read them
I OWN THEM ALL
I havent touched them in years what I'm supposed to do with THESE
still in the fanbase ✌️
Oh yeah the first books villian has literall child soldiers and in the second book the main character's best friend get's a wife who dies violently while giving birth to his children on a cat territory border because they were from different groups and thus were forbidden from being lovers. Yeah the first books are already pretty dark right away lol.
still in the fandom!
"a candy shop for nerds"
Never heard a more accurate statement, now I shall reminisce about the times I thought about which books I could get with the little amount of money I had while my classmates bought or stole all the dumb pencils and posters.
HOW DID THEY STEAL THE POSTERS
"because twilight thought me what love really is"
I'm worried about you now
*googles* cold...
Jacqueline Wilson was my favourite writer when I was a child. Back then I read almost all her books. It's been more than 10 years and My Sister Jodie still makes me sad when I think about it. I still love those books and I'm glad I read them but honestly many of them traumatised me.
same it introduced us to the concept of death and stuff and i was shooook
TIL the uk also had scholastic book fairs ???? Those fairs deeply shaped more ppl than I thought
yess!!
No Animorphs? That series deserves to simultaneous occupy both the Made me a good human being, and you need therapy ranks
Even the book covers are traumatic alone lol
Yeah those were dark but also really cool. I didn't read them as a kid, though. I started reading them as an older teenager.
Also idk if the G stands for #girlboss or god tier editing...both, let’s go with both
heheh tysm
I started reading because of Jacqueline Wilson books, and I distinctly remember reading My Sister Jodie for the first time and being so mad at the ending because what the hell
the only books i really read as a child were the magic tree house series and mary downing hahn's children's horror. those books were terrifying and yet?? every time she released a new book there I was
hahah first in line
Not me renting out all the Sarah Dessen books from the school library 🙈
Yikes
omg a throwback
Private Peaceful was my 2nd experience in the hardship of life
1st experience was my dad leaving me
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Private Peaceful 😭😭 I read that in year six and genuinely laughed and some parts with my friend as I didn’t understand the mature concepts. I remember my teacher keeping me behind and talking to me about it and how I shouldn’t laugh. I still did as I was just a kid
Tell me you were kidding about "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." The night after he ate all that artificial stuff, he had a stomachache, and he didn't feel better until the next morning when he ate a leaf. Plus, the little guy needed to eat a lot to prepare for metamorphosis. That's what caterpillars do. Not everything is pushing the capitalist agenda. I do apologise if I missed the joke, though. I blame my autism.
No worries it was a joke
@@itsdivyag Classic me, missing the joke lol, I just know there are some people who would actually get that sort of message from it
i live in australia and all of these children's books were what i had growing up too (as well as diary of a wombat) and omg, the rainbow magic fairy books, we got them in the library when i was in grade 2 or something, which was around the time the fairys started getting really niche and specific(like really? sausage dog fairy?? but we already got a normal dog fairy??), i also remember getting really pissed that the fairy with my name had a really crap thing it took care of, and that it looked nothing like me, and that THEY SPELT MY NAME WRONG?! THE AUDACITY
anyway that was my childhood
The worst witch was made into a Netflix series for kids
and people give me hell because I read The Metamorphosis and Lord of the flies at 12
Did y’all know that rainbow fairies got an anime movie?? It’s a spin-off/sequel that takes place directly after the first series ends.
jacqueline wilson introduced me to child abuse
IM FRIGGING IN TEARS
I think the rainbow fairy books started my obsession with webtoons/comics.
THEYRE ICONIC
When I was like 10, I read 'The Red Shoes' by H. C. Andersen and I've been plagued by a vision of dancing amputated legs in the dark ever since.
The absolute demonic things I read as a 13 year old my God. I traumatised myself reading Cujo.
I traumatised myself at 13 reading the virgin suicides…..
Childhood books that traumatized me:
1. Cat Stories -James Herriot
Lol i have a cat, and i was so terrified if my cat had cancer bcs of this book
2. All of the encyclopedias my mum forced me to read (she even bought the entire series of them😭 ~25-30 books)
The book that scarred me for life is a real crime book called The Killer Department (serial rapist/killer, around 70ish victims), my cousin picked it out for me randomly bc I was looking for a mystery book. I was 13/14......
... SERIAL WHA-
@@itsdivyag his name is Andre Chikatilo "butcher of Rostov" and the name is literally branded into my mind since then, morbid curiosity is the only reason I just kept reading
My favorite book series when I was a child was "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and it really set me up to be a witty depressed bitch with a good sense of humor!
Little upset that the Biff, Chip and Kipper books were not on here.. Maybe a part 2?
OMG MY DAD IS ALSO OBSESSED WITH RICH DAD POOR DAD
WHAT IS IT WITH THE DADS
"its your fault i am like this"
We have Scholastic in Canada too!
your books for "made me a good human being" 😩😭😭😭
kkafksdkfds
I'm a crusty old millennial, so Bridge to Terabithia was my first memorable "grappling with death" book and I'll never, ever forget the beginning of Hatchet. I need therapy, yep.
I don't remember the name of the book, but I read every horse book in the library when I was like 9 and one had a straight up explicit rape scene in it. Traumatised for life owo
Eye.. WHAT HORSE BOOK IS THIS
SOMEONE ELSE WHO WAS BROKEN BY JACQUELINE WILSON HOLY SHIT. I bought that in an airport when I was like 12 and it DESTROYED me when I finished it I’ve never read it again it hurt so much
also was i the only one who read the Goddess Girls series? shit SLAPS and i still reread them when i need a feel good moment after uni classes 👁👄👁
Yes! I thought nobody remembered those! That's the series that got me interested in Greek mythology! Percy Jackson who?
thx for the utube classes in 2020
no problem!
@@itsdivyag are you going to do for 2021
Why have I read nearly all of these... I do in fact need therapy
let's go together
I read Wicked when I was 12 yo and overall loved it but there was a (very vaguely described) sex scene which involved one of the talking humanlike Animals and I was shook (no, not a children's book but was not expecting that eek)
I’m from southern CA we have them here too the scholastics
this is cool!
michael morpurgo was EVERYWHERE man... butterfly lion could single handedly be the reason for my needing therapy
i read bridge to terabithia 2 years in a row, and it didn't traumatize me but i know it traumatized other kids
PLEASE BTT was my hyperfixation (the movie)
Did anybody else read the junie b jones series?
How is everything you say so relatable!
hehe thank you
congrats on being sponsored, G!
thank youuu
That 'disgursstting shettt' is epic
i love that clip sm
Lmao, we had those fairs here in America too! They were fun but awful because I couldn't buy anything.
right it was like you just lusted over the books you couldn't buy
my guys cassy cassidy = trauma
child abuse yea
Scholastic book fairs.... My best memory from those was stealing a cheap bracelet that was packaged on to the front of a book because I was too broke to buy the book, thought I'd go to jail lol
looooool omg
@@itsdivyag This makes me feel a lot better about existing cause I definitely stole a few pretty pens and fun erasers that didnt even function right
FBI OPEN UP
once i got a cinderella book from the fair that had the free bracelet missing, coincidence?
I read almost all of those rainbow fairy books. Also magic tree house?
SAMEEEEEE
SAME
You're good. There are lik 200 of these books.
Those books were lit tho
magic tree house was so fucking weird, like all the plots were the exact same but they still managed to create permanent memories for me
If I am being honest here ... There has never been a book that was able to traumatise me the way harry styles fanfics did :/
HARRY STYLES
Kidnapper Harry Styles, Gang Member Harry Styles, Murderer, Psychopath Harry Styles, Harry Styles being your boyfriend and traumatizing you Harry Styles... I got into Harry Styles fanfic before I knew who Harry Styles even was...
Kinda made me wonder what part of Harry Styles screamed murderer when I saw 1D vids..
God I remember when the rainbow magic fairies got weirdly niche because they ran out of ideas, I was so annoyed like some things didn’t need fairies
Sooooooooooooo truuuuuuuuue.
This. Just. This.
I read the first couple of sets of fairies and it was my 8yr-old dream to read and collect them all but that didn't happen and then they got weird
This is dumb but what does niche mean TT
@@hajrahc3350 I don’t think that’s a dumb question! In a nutshell, niche (in this context) means a very specific sub-category. Basically, they’re trying to say that the type of rainbow fairies got really oddly specific. Like if someone told me that there was a book called Aggie the Aiglet (word for end of shoe lace) fairy, I would just be like: “😐🙂 Yup, sounds about right!” because that’s how oddly specific it got towards the end of the series. 😂
I thought there's only 7 of them😆😭 Also you could win a Motorola covered in rainbow swarowski in Russia, never saw that Phone anywhere again))
I read so many Jacqueline Wilson books as a kid my primary school teacher banned me from them because my writing style had morphed into hers
I love this ahhahaah Her influence
ngl i’m 18 years of age and i still write like her 😭
I think this might have happened to me, I read basically every JW book I could find as a kid (and I still read them because they're good) and now I'm writing about someone who's family were murdered when they were nine.
This happened to me but with Jack London because I read White Fang so many times 😭
The day I found out that Daisy Meadows (author of Rainbow Magic) wasn't a real person was when my childhood died forever
Daisy Meadows is what now? I-
Wh- WhAT .... !?
I'm so sorry you all had to find out this way 😭
Who??? Wrote the books then??? My childhood has been RUINED man
guess my childhood died today then-
The only books that traumatised me as a child were both related to death: Bridge to Terabithia, and a Romanian fairytale called Youth Without Age and Life Without Death
bridge to terabithia omg i forgot about that
I read Bridge to Teribitha. The other one was The Ring of Endless of Light by Madeline Lengle. Books about death never traumatized me. Thank goodness.
im from Romania and I hated youth without age and life without death as a kid
@@ioanaaa624 I actually loved it and it's still my favourite traditional fairytale, but yeah it fucked me up a bit
@@itsdivyag Yes, that should have made the list. Boy do I love that book but I'm not sure how many times it made me cry. The movie made me cry too.
the book ‘cookie’ also traumatised me bc there’s a scene where she gets a baby bunny and it’s head is ripped off by a fox because her dad deliberately left the cage door open 😀
Yeah that was horrific. I remember that
yes! she received so much emotional abuse from her father :-(
YES I REMEMBER THIS
there are very few fictional characters I hate more than Gerry Cookson. Justice for Birthday the bunny.
Remember that gay little book about hallucinating/being haunted by your dead best friend that was actually pretty toxic? That scene where the protagonist compares her to a photo and realises that she looks different, even when the ghost/hallucination starts trying to match but it still doesn’t look right- that messed me uppppp
jacqueline wilson was such a big part of my childhood. i remember in her book 'Little Darlings' the mc ate golden syrup on bread for her birthday cos her family were poor and i became obsessed with eating it for weeks afterwards and my mum was just like ????????
LOOOOL A GENERATION OF HIGHLY IMPRESSIONABLE KIDS
Bro did you forget that Cookie was basically a little girl getting fat shamed but her abusive dad in which her and her mom had to escape to the beach from... or something like that. It needs therapy for me...
nah cookie was bad there was dead rabbits and stuff too
YOOO YEAH IT WAS CRAZY
@@itsdivyag oh no im remembering the rabbit now- that scarred me
Just found out Jacqueline Wilson is a big sapphic. Not sure why but this makes so much sense
fr Tracey Beaker's foster mum is you know...
me at school: I need therapy
Teacher: Here's a £1 book voucher ^_^ #EnrichThesePoorKids #NobelP3acePr1ze
with that £1 you should have invested in Bitcoin
Don't forget about Coraline. That shit TRAUMATIZED ME.
Coraline was great whattttt.
okay that.. yes i agree
The animation movie freaked me out more and I watched that in my late thirties. I was 49 yo when I finally got a free copy of the book cuz the public library gave free Neil Gaiman books cuz he was going to be a guest speaker then Covid cancelled it.
I’ve never heard of this Jacqueline Wilson person but I, uh...I have questions
She's mostly popular in Britain. I read loads of her stuff when I was a kid, though they could be kind of dark when you thought about them. One of her books was called Lola Rose. It was about a girl and her mum and little brother escaping from the girl's abusive father, so they move to a new city and take on new identities. In the second half of the book, the mum develops breast cancer.
The British are the way they are for a reason ok
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
My favourite is Vicky Angel. Jade's friend dies and her ghost follows her around telling her to off herself.
@@afiafae Whaaat??
When I was younger I used to read a book by one author, and then read every single book in that author's backlist, no matter what it was about. I did that with Margaret Peterson Haddix (who wrote the Shadow Children books and the Missing Children series), and ended up reading a book about reincarnation and a different book about a religous cult when I was 8.
i loved the missing children series!! she made time travelling seem so easy to understand
Are you okay
a what
@@andromeda_va39 Nope!
Californian here, we also had scholastic book fairs! And I can confirm they were like a candy shop for nerds
YESSS! I'm also American, and lemme tell the amount of times I felt broke af at those things...
they were the highlight of childhood
THE NOSTALGIA OF RAINBOW MAGIC OMFG
yesss
Jacqueline Wilson is the woman who really got me into reading, not sure if I want to know how problematic she is tbh
... what did she do??
Opposite for me. I thought I hated reading because the teacher's kept giving me J Wilson books. I found them uncomfortable and disturbing.
Later found out I liked reading from magical girl books so I guess I preferred escapism.
tbhhh there's just like one or two books which are bad (love lessons) the rest of them are mostly fine... as far as childhood stories about abuse can be
ngl she's one of the least problematic YA authors out there ...
same- her books have such a nostalgic feeling for me.
"The only b I am is a baddie" amen
looool ily
Sisters Grimm for giving me my first enemies to grudging friends to lovers story and expecting me not to raise my expectations to match it 😔
Omg I loved that series too
an incomplete list of jacqueline wilson books that traumatised me:
the bed and breakfast star
dustbin baby
vicky angel (seriously wtf)
clean break
and finally, the illustrated mum
And almost every other one she wrote but I loved them anyway
And the diamond girls
The illustrated mum is the only one I have read from your list, and honestly, y'all making me feel like I haven't read as much JW as I thought I had.
diamond
and Lily Alone for me!!
I used to borrow those fairy books just to stare at the cover for a week. And then switch it for another one. Still have no idea what they're about
Lol same 😀 Me and sister used to play with them like dolls, only read them when my mom forced me to read
I remember borrowing two of them from my school library. Imagine my surprise when I found out there are like 100 of them out there!
They were the same exact plot recycled over and over, but in a slightly different aesthetic and local. The only value they really had was the covers imo, but the covers were pretty to child me
LOOOOOL
so I looked it up and there are 228 rainbow fairy books, wow
JSJAKWKKEKE INSANE
I read many books that definitely weren't age-appropriate for me in elementary school, but the one that I think traumatized me the most was Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. I was probably in the 8-10 age range when I read it, and I'm fairly certain it was how I learned about the concept of rape.
oh god that's way to young to be reading that
@@itsdivyag Maybe so, but at least it was a carefully crafted book meant to teach about how horrible it is
American here -- we had the book fairs too!
Same in Australia :) they where the best
this is amazing
Man fully put 11+ verbal reasoning 😂😂😂☠️
Seriously though like what the hell was Love Lessons. Like, Jacky, I love you and you practically raised me singlehanded but WHAT were you thinking.
RIGHT?!
@@itsdivyag RIGHT?! Everything about it was just so wrong. I almost can't believe it's a real book that I actually read and enjoyed.
I always found the Jacqueline Wilson books deeply uncomfortable to read. I think maybe I was too young and probably too dumb to really understand the type of situations she was describing? But also the chip butty thing. I was like how have I lived this long and not tried one. The Rainbow Magic books (the first few series) introduced me to the world of fairies and sparked my imagination. I’ve loved fairies ever since, including books by Holly Black and RJ Anderson.
THOSE 11+ BOOKS!! God they were the worst experience of academic pressure I think I faced as a child. Luckily I was able to pass... and get into a grammar school which proceeded to crush any semblance of mental health I had. Fuck that mindset.
Right! It's so weird how they think you age 10 is going to predict you age 18
omg RJ Anderson
I don't think I could eat a chip butty. Too many carbs! But I love bacon sandwiches so I guess I have no leg to stand on.
this made me think about what piece of media introduced me to the concept of death and i realized it was the first pokemon movie. you know, the one in which mewtwo kills ash. i was 9 and i cried.
okay but this is traumatic
I'm like a 100% sure that books like Watership down and candyfloss both drove my specific trope of writing traumatised and happy characters within the same space.
what an influence truly
I was obsessed with emily bronte in my teens, which gave me a depression and no friends.
If it makes you feel better, I read Wuthering Heights 3 years ago (I am 26) and even before that, was depressed and had no friends
@@ScorpionFlower95 Thank you, it does... *looks out the window* btw I'm 32 and the depression went away, so hang on :)
I didn't expect a Lee Min Ho cameo today but I'm not complaining
!! ITS SO FUNNY
I am here for the Jaqueline Wilson books 😜
She was a big part of my childhood/teen years. I love how she could introduce serious and heavy topics in seemingly light-hearted books.
I haven't read the books that you did (except Illustrated Mom which I loved) but on the topic of Love Lessons, in another one of her books (I believe it was the 3rd book in the Girls series) she had a 13 year old girl aggressively flirting with her teacher which was big yikes. Although he never reciprocated any of her acts and I am not sure if there was any victim-blaming there. But to be honest, it always irked me a little bit how she would show some of her 13 and 14yo characters doing some not age appropriate stuff, although she is hardly the only writer who does that.
Also, in the last installment of the Girls series, there is a scene where the MC's - very shady - love interest kissed the friend (the one who liked the teacher) while they were both drunk and the MC was treated as the bad guy for wanting them both out of her life. She forgives both in the end of course. So yeah, that bit irked me too.
Sorry for the long ass comment. Great video 😁
love the long comment!! and omg the girls series was iconic i think maybe you can get away with less of that type of stuff nowadays in children's books
My Sister Jodie was the last Jacqueline Wilson book I read. I remember reading it on a plane and SOBBING.
SAME I CRIED SO HARD
Charlotte's Web deeply and thoroughly traumatized me. Like. Truly. I was inconsolable
My sister jodie absolutely traumatised me, especially as I do in fact have a sister called jodie 😭
In America we have those book fairs here to
I remember reading Candy Floss and thinking something was up. Just got a feeling that Jacqueline Wilson books were weird and never read more. Years down the line, some of my friends keep telling me Jacqueline Wilson books were good, but - i think i dodged some trauma 🤣
fr abusive families, kids in dustbins.. the whole works!
i read my sister jodie and i did NOT expect the concept of sewerslide to be introduced to me at the age of 11 but it was.
that book traumatised a whole nation
I'm going to change your life. There is a classic book adaptation that has vampires, and it is called...Vampire Darcy's Desire: A Pride and Prejudice Adaptation. You are very welcome! It will change your life. Or traumatize you more. Either way lol
There is also a Wuthering Hights with vampires!
omg hahaha thank you for this
@@itsdivyag 😂 you’re welcome! Lol
WE HAD THE SAME CHILDHOOD loved this video. jesus jacqueline wilson gave me ISSUES about normal family dynamics is she okayyyy
Like, on the depiction of broken families and dead parents, I'd say she is up there with Disney.
ngl felt SEEN by her books
JACQUELINE WILSON HAS THE MOST TRAUMATIZING YET INTRIGUING BOOKS i was both shocked, traumatized and obsessed with her books
The schools now host Scholastic book fair on the same evening as Grandparents Night to make big, big💰
wait what is grandparents night ive never heard of this
i think i would’ve loved anne frank’s diary’s unedited version that includes her being gay and kissing that boy and talking about periods whatever but nooooo her dad was like i’m gonna edit my daughter’s diary cuz that’s not inappropriate at all
right it's a shame
he edited it because he didn't want people judging her for basically being a normal teenager at a time when women were harshly judged for not being 'perfect'... also he assumed that she wouldn't have wanted people to read incredibly personal stuff about her life; it was meant to protect her memory more than censor her imo
Did he put these parts in the later editions? Because the version i read definitely had kissing and i think she described her genitals at some point? I might be wrong. But i don't know what you mean about the gay part, I've never heard of that and she did describe being attracted to a boy?
Plus she literally glued those pages shut. It’s disrespectful enough that we’re reading her diary so it will be worse if we start unsticking pages.
My version actually has her talking about periods and kissing the boy (I’m assuming you were talking about the guy who was in hiding with them) but I never knew about her being gay
scholastic book fair was what I lived for
same ! now what is there
jacqueline wilson's books raised me and looking back, i cant believe i read so many different stories about child trauma
She really was prepping us for life
I remember reading this one series called "ghosts of war", it's basically about these three kids who have a band and practice under one of their uncle's stores and they find objects that used to belong to soldiers and their ghost would appear to them, they also had a limited time to solve the mystery surrounding their death, it was pretty interesting and it also introduced the concept of PTSD to me
I remember this one time my mom lent me one of her books cause I had already read all of mine, and I was like 4-6 at the time, and I just vividly remember this guy being chased, falling off a fence, and busting his head open. My mom got stricter on what I read after that, like literally read Percy Jackson a chapter ahead of me when I was like 10 despite it being in the kids section.
So her book is probably the most traumatic I've read as a child, but there were plenty of books I read from the kids/ya section when I was not ready to as a homeschooled child whose library mostly consisted of Christian YA. Several questions were asked to my mom, and several books were taken away lmao
BURSTING HIS HEAD OPEN OW
I remember Dork diaries. I read first four books and recently i found them at a book shop. That series was never ending! (But not like that Rainbow magic series. I didn't read that)
Jacqueline Wilson was my childhood I had a whole shelf dedicated to her books which eventually merged into 2 shelves
my childhood book obsession (in order): rainbow magic, magic treehouse, box car children, harry potter, warrior cats, percy jackson 😋😋
Hi I’m Charis and I wrote the article you referenced! It was really fun to hear your thoughts on other books too and bring back memories of scholastic book fairs!! Loved this video 🥰
SO WILD!!! AAAA thank you!! Fellow Warwick alumni?
@@itsdivyag still studying! but thank you for featuring it ❤️
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli ruined the entirety of fourth grade for me and to this day I STILL want to know WHAT WAS THE REASON. WHY DID WE HAVE TO READ THAT.