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14 Of The Most Terrible Children's Books: Ever Written
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2020
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.64 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This is the dark cousin of the other compendium. Where the first collection leaned into innuendo, this one leans into subject matter that most publishers would not touch with a ten foot pole and a lawyer present. Over 200 pages, fourteen complete books, illustrated in the cheerful visual style of children's picture books and dealing with topics that picture books generally avoid. Inside: Baa Baa Black Sheep, Conjoined Twins, Coronavirus and Friends, Creepy Creatures, Daddy Daughter Date Night, Dead Babies, Donkeybear, Don't Bathe With Uncle Joe, Meet the Hipsters, How Daddy Got an STD, Insomniac and Friends, Meet the Karens, My Racist Gran, and Mommy Got a DUI. We are simply listing the titles. We are not elaborating further.
This is dark satire wearing a children's book costume, and it knows exactly what it is doing. Every topic here is treated with the same chipper cartoon energy as a book about sharing or counting to ten, which is precisely the joke and precisely the problem. Brad Gosse wrote fourteen of these because apparently one was never going to be enough. They are collected here in a single volume so you only have to make one regrettable purchase instead of fourteen separate ones.
This Book Is For You If...- You have a pitch black sense of humor and have made peace with what that says about you
- You believe a topic being uncomfortable does not automatically mean it cannot be funny
- You want over 200 pages of satire that takes zero hostages and offers zero apologies
- You already laughed at one of these titles before reading the description and you know it
- You collect things that other people specifically ask you to put away before guests arrive
- You are currently grieving, recovering, or in any state where dark satire will not land well
- You believe certain topics should never appear near a cartoon illustration under any circumstances
- You are the designated keeper of community standards in your friend group or your office
- You read even one of these titles and felt your blood pressure rise noticeably
- You are buying this for someone without knowing their sense of humor extremely well first
- The friend group where nothing is off limits and everyone signed an unofficial agreement about it
- White elephant exchanges among people who already know exactly what they are getting into
- A gift for the one person who will actually read all 200 plus pages cover to cover
- Anyone who collects deliberately uncomfortable satire as a hobby and is not ashamed of it
- Your own bookshelf, displayed face out, daring anyone to ask you about it
This costs about the same as a greeting card that gets read once and thrown away. This book gets opened, someone reads a title out loud, the room goes quiet, and then it does not stay quiet for long. Over 200 pages means there is always another terrible title waiting to be discovered by whoever picks this up next at your next gathering.
This is not for everyone. We are aware. That is genuinely the entire point of the exercise. Brad Gosse wrote fourteen books that needed warning labels and bundled them into one purchase decision. If you have read this far and are still here, you already know whether this belongs on your shelf. Buy the book. Own the decision. Brad already has.
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