I LOVE the idea of a kids book where “adults are stupid” is a central theme. BUT we don’t need 13 books of them being stupid in the same exact way. Ya know? Make them stupid in different ways!

Hahahah. Op if I didn’t know better I would have thought I wrote this post. Agree with everything you said.

I didn’t read these books as a kid or teen, but as an adult reading them with/to my kid (from the age 7 to 9). And he loved them at first. But somewhere around book 8 he asked if it was going to be just like the other 7 books? And once we read it and it was a copy paste of the other 7, he said he didn’t want to read anymore.

I do wish we had skipped to the last one but when a 9 y/o is pointing out the writing flaws, you have a problem.

But I will say the Netflix series did a great job of streamlining the books.

I don’t think op is arguing that adults ignoring children is something that doesn’t happen. It’s that it KEEPS happening and the adults continue to ignore the children. It’s the opposite of the boy who cried wolf.

Well said! Heck I enjoy certain “bad writers” but the moment you normalize abuse? Hell no!