ranking books that ruined my childhood

tier list of children's books that were traumatic. like that one about the love story with the 14 yo girl and the teacher. This video was sponsored by Skillshare and the first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/itsdivya01211
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[@itsdivyag]

Skillshare was a sponsor for today's video. If you want to try out the learning platform for yourself the first 1000 people to use the link gets free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: skl.sh/itsdivya01211 Sooo like how The Very Hungry Caterpillar was about CAPITALISM, give me your best ~ niche ~ analysis of your fave childhood novel.

[@iveedoodle]

yes girl, get that bag 😌

[@freyab5066]

THE G STANDS FOR GOT THAT SPONSORED CONTENT

[@kousetsuhana]

Divya has a sponsor??????

[@orlaghkirkwood6238]

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

[@adalie4632]

This. Just this.

[@itsdivyag]

omg

[@toobsthetubb]

holy-

[@randomcommenter7343]

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

[@itsdivyag]

looooool omg

[@Sadie-rai]

@@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

[@irine_elle]

FBI OPEN UP

[@eggspress8043]

once i got a cinderella book from the fair that had the free bracelet missing, coincidence?

[@amorfati5922]

“Don’t read a classic thinking you’re going to get twilight” 📝

[@itsdivyag]

its a jungle out there

[@amorfati5922]

I read almost all of those rainbow fairy books. Also magic tree house?

[@raniidaki3543]

SAMEEEEEE

[@user-by1df8ok3l]

SAME

[@vikaziza1506]

You're good. There are lik 200 of these books.

[@vishnupriyaanand5550]

Those books were lit tho

[@elfboi3622]

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

[@fabsilein7062]

If I am being honest here ... There has never been a book that was able to traumatise me the way harry styles fanfics did :/

[@itsdivyag]

HARRY STYLES

[@khushbooprasad6519]

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..

[@Pesto_O]

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

[@adalie4632]

Sooooooooooooo truuuuuuuuue. This. Just. This.

[@marisp2588]

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

[@hajrahc3350]

This is dumb but what does niche mean TT

[@adalie4632]

@@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. 😂

[@starrysimphony]

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))

[@genevieve.165]

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

[@itsdivyag]

I love this ahhahaah Her influence

[@totalrevengeance3904]

ngl i’m 18 years of age and i still write like her 😭

[@skylarjohnson7779]

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.

[@debleb166]

This happened to me but with Jack London because I read White Fang so many times 😭

[@hannahjwhitson]

"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.

[@itsdivyag]

HOW DID THEY STEAL THE POSTERS

[@Badriyaishere]

The day I found out that Daisy Meadows (author of Rainbow Magic) wasn't a real person was when my childhood died forever

[@dazaimaru5799]

Daisy Meadows is what now? I-

[@marisp2588]

Wh- WhAT .... !?

[@Badriyaishere]

I'm so sorry you all had to find out this way 😭

[@sapphireredwood5612]

Who??? Wrote the books then??? My childhood has been RUINED man

[@0bookhoarder096]

guess my childhood died today then-

[@MM-dw5ir]

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 ???😅

[@adalie4632]

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. 🙄😅

[@regann7227]

I didnt just read them I OWN THEM ALL I havent touched them in years what I'm supposed to do with THESE

[@siionach]

still in the fanbase ✌️

[@huhhuh9598]

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.

[@reynaclarke2110]

still in the fandom!

[@ghost8974]

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 😀

[@alicebergonzi3802]

Yeah that was horrific. I remember that

[@internetslothh]

yes! she received so much emotional abuse from her father :-(

[@itsdivyag]

YES I REMEMBER THIS

[@skylarjohnson7779]

there are very few fictional characters I hate more than Gerry Cookson. Justice for Birthday the bunny.

[@baintreachas]

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

[@izziedias]

"because twilight thought me what love really is" I'm worried about you now

[@itsdivyag]

*googles* cold...

[@nvmindem]

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

[@itsdivyag]

bridge to terabithia omg i forgot about that

[@gtvelasco985]

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.

[@ioanaaa624]

im from Romania and I hated youth without age and life without death as a kid

[@nvmindem]

@@ioanaaa624 I actually loved it and it's still my favourite traditional fairytale, but yeah it fucked me up a bit

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

@@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.

[@ky_c_c]

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...

[@itsdivyag]

nah cookie was bad there was dead rabbits and stuff too

[@jaeyeejung101]

YOOO YEAH IT WAS CRAZY

[@soyboy6953]

@@itsdivyag oh no im remembering the rabbit now- that scarred me

[@mohmohthesmog7179]

Just found out Jacqueline Wilson is a big sapphic. Not sure why but this makes so much sense

[@itsdivyag]

fr Tracey Beaker's foster mum is you know...

[@dazaimaru5799]

Don't forget about Coraline. That shit TRAUMATIZED ME.

[@HerbOlTea]

Coraline was great whattttt.

[@itsdivyag]

okay that.. yes i agree

[@gtvelasco985]

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.

[@internetslothh]

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 ????????

[@itsdivyag]

LOOOOL A GENERATION OF HIGHLY IMPRESSIONABLE KIDS

[@wemestros]

THE NOSTALGIA OF RAINBOW MAGIC OMFG

[@itsdivyag]

yesss

[@AndyD.21]

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.

[@itsdivyag]

same it introduced us to the concept of death and stuff and i was shooook

[@libby1538]

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.

[@sammicass]

i loved the missing children series!! she made time travelling seem so easy to understand

[@andromeda_va39]

Are you okay

[@itsdivyag]

a what

[@libby1538]

@@andromeda_va39 Nope!

[@peonylarkspur645]

Californian here, we also had scholastic book fairs! And I can confirm they were like a candy shop for nerds

[@oyinkansolaadebajo9716]

YESSS! I'm also American, and lemme tell the amount of times I felt broke af at those things...

[@itsdivyag]

they were the highlight of childhood

[@thenuyogi5751]

"The only b I am is a baddie" amen

[@itsdivyag]

looool ily

[@lemonona4573]

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 😔

[@amorfati5922]

Omg I loved that series too

[@yanling_4663]

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

[@amarachiisaac9420]

Lol same 😀 Me and sister used to play with them like dolls, only read them when my mom forced me to read

[@ScorpionFlower95]

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!

[@genericflour]

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

[@itsdivyag]

LOOOOOL

[@chapterbarbara8161]

Jacqueline Wilson is the woman who really got me into reading, not sure if I want to know how problematic she is tbh

[@alostgirl3476]

... what did she do??

[@milchreis9554]

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.

[@itsdivyag]

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

[@katfujioka212]

ngl she's one of the least problematic YA authors out there ...

[@soyboy6953]

same- her books have such a nostalgic feeling for me.

[@peonylarkspur645]

I’ve never heard of this Jacqueline Wilson person but I, uh...I have questions

[@silversmilegirl]

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.

[@aimun5255]

The British are the way they are for a reason ok

[@itsdivyag]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[@boatemaaeffah7927]

My favourite is Vicky Angel. Jade's friend dies and her ghost follows her around telling her to off herself.

[@Anita-nw5ts]

@@boatemaaeffah7927 Whaaat??

[@juliettelamarr6010]

TIL the uk also had scholastic book fairs ???? Those fairs deeply shaped more ppl than I thought

[@itsdivyag]

yess!!

[@unknown-hh7he]

so I looked it up and there are 228 rainbow fairy books, wow

[@itsdivyag]

JSJAKWKKEKE INSANE

[@charlotterouge8107]

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.

[@itsdivyag]

oh god that's way to young to be reading that

[@charlotterouge8107]

@@itsdivyag Maybe so, but at least it was a carefully crafted book meant to teach about how horrible it is

[@peonylarkspur645]

Also idk if the G stands for #girlboss or god tier editing...both, let’s go with both

[@itsdivyag]

heheh tysm

[@jadedtoday]

American here -- we had the book fairs too!

[@nataliajewelmusic]

Same in Australia :) they where the best

[@itsdivyag]

this is amazing

[@tatanabaudisova1056]

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.

[@itsdivyag]

okay but this is traumatic

[@andreaoshodi385]

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.

[@itsdivyag]

what an influence truly

[@justmahir]

me at school: I need therapy Teacher: Here's a £1 book voucher ^_^ #EnrichThesePoorKids #NobelP3acePr1ze

[@itsdivyag]

with that £1 you should have invested in Bitcoin

[@greenteadreams5182]

No Animorphs? That series deserves to simultaneous occupy both the Made me a good human being, and you need therapy ranks

[@grane1850]

Even the book covers are traumatic alone lol

[@andromeda_va39]

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.

[@imdivyamenon]

I was obsessed with emily bronte in my teens, which gave me a depression and no friends.

[@ScorpionFlower95]

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

[@imdivyamenon]

@@ScorpionFlower95 Thank you, it does... *looks out the window* btw I'm 32 and the depression went away, so hang on :)

[@sanna5623]

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

[@AndyD.21]

And almost every other one she wrote but I loved them anyway

[@sharon__a]

And the diamond girls

[@ScorpionFlower95]

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.

[@izzyd3857]

diamond

[@jessicawraight2077]

and Lily Alone for me!!

[@et7083]

jacqueline wilson's books raised me and looking back, i cant believe i read so many different stories about child trauma

[@itsdivyag]

She really was prepping us for life

[@memoirsofepiphany]

In America we have those book fairs here to

[@thenuyogi5751]

Man fully put 11+ verbal reasoning 😂😂😂☠️

[@rumaysahshafi9949]

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.

[@itsdivyag]

Right! It's so weird how they think you age 10 is going to predict you age 18

[@fade4992]

omg RJ Anderson

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

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.

[@lemonlord]

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

[@vanshika123456789]

Charlotte's Web deeply and thoroughly traumatized me. Like. Truly. I was inconsolable

[@wizardaffairs5085]

I didn't expect a Lee Min Ho cameo today but I'm not complaining

[@itsdivyag]

!! ITS SO FUNNY

[@ScorpionFlower95]

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 😁

[@itsdivyag]

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

[@alicebergonzi3802]

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.

[@itsdivyag]

RIGHT?!

[@alicebergonzi3802]

@@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.

[@IzziATL]

My Sister Jodie was the last Jacqueline Wilson book I read. I remember reading it on a plane and SOBBING.

[@itsdivyag]

SAME I CRIED SO HARD

[@sofialister8418]

WE HAD THE SAME CHILDHOOD loved this video. jesus jacqueline wilson gave me ISSUES about normal family dynamics is she okayyyy

[@ScorpionFlower95]

Like, on the depiction of broken families and dead parents, I'd say she is up there with Disney.

[@itsdivyag]

ngl felt SEEN by her books

[@CJ-zy4io]

The end of Gregor the Overlander still messes me up every time I read it

[@emmyrose77]

scholastic book fair was what I lived for

[@itsdivyag]

same ! now what is there

[@Amy-G-Dala-]

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 🤣

[@itsdivyag]

fr abusive families, kids in dustbins.. the whole works!

[@fantasy4500]

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.

[@fantasy4500]

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

[@itsdivyag]

BURSTING HIS HEAD OPEN OW

[@sabsupsub]

those rainbow magic books man the fact that i grew up in malaysia and everyone was obsessed with rainbow magic too omg

[@itsdivyag]

yessss so good

[@ambervictoria4083]

My sister jodie absolutely traumatised me, especially as I do in fact have a sister called jodie 😭

[@chariswinter4947]

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 🥰

[@itsdivyag]

SO WILD!!! AAAA thank you!! Fellow Warwick alumni?

[@chariswinter4947]

@@itsdivyag still studying! but thank you for featuring it ❤️

[@sharakkhonart]

I rewatch all your new and old videos when I'm having a tough time and they always work. Thank you and never stop making these videos ;-; ❤️

[@alieneater3328]

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.

[@itsdivyag]

that book traumatised a whole nation

[@daisydaisy0121]

The schools now host Scholastic book fair on the same evening as Grandparents Night to make big, big💰

[@itsdivyag]

wait what is grandparents night ive never heard of this

[@helingunes955]

JACQUELINE WILSON HAS THE MOST TRAUMATIZING YET INTRIGUING BOOKS i was both shocked, traumatized and obsessed with her books

[@malalaliyah]

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.

[@vikaziza1506]

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)

[@ellygoya]

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

[@itsdivyag]

right it's a shame

[@katfujioka212]

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

[@anonymous-zs9rn]

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?

[@kittycoutourxxx2706]

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.

[@luuuuux_]

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

[@lia.g9796]

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

[@aliciah8250]

my childhood book obsession (in order): rainbow magic, magic treehouse, box car children, harry potter, warrior cats, percy jackson 😋😋

[@yikes268]

My dad also made me read “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” as a child omg

[@itsdivyag]

WHY IS THIS SUCH A MORE COMMON CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE THAN I THOUGHT

[@ayjfr88]

Just started the video and you're talking about scholastic book orders. I live in Malaysia and went to an international school that used Britain's way of learning. Yes those orders were just a way to figure out who was rich and who was not,heck I had classmates who got like 7 books while I was there with 2 books that I could finish in a day even though I was like 7 because I'm a fast reader. That was always so sad.

[@itsdivyag]

damn! the books were always so expensive as well

[@s.b.doodles7625]

I actually would have put the witches in the "you need therapy" section, because when I say that book scarred me, I mean that both SCARRED me. Anyways I had nightmares about the witches for about 2 weeks after I read it. Actually, I just realized that I must have been generally terrified of witches when I was younger because the story of Baba Yaga also freaked me out. Huh, now I'd literally sell my soul to be able to do cool witchy magic. How the tables have turned.

[@michelleski8265]

Not me renting out all the Sarah Dessen books from the school library 🙈

[@dazaimaru5799]

Yikes

[@itsdivyag]

omg a throwback

[@sammicass]

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

[@itsdivyag]

hahah first in line

[@CaitCher]

I'm from the United States and we had those book fairs, too! I fell in love every single time it came to our school.

[@itsdivyag]

we all had the same childhood haha

[@ellygoya]

the way beautiful creatures (amongst others) made me want to be a ~quirky~ girl who always wore vans (“so she’s always ready to run” quote by Ethan the male lead) and had a silver chain necklace with JUNK on it???

[@milchreis9554]

I had a blog dedicated to this series and I filtered through the books to MAKE the junk necklace

[@itsdivyag]

she would be an e-girl today

[@isabelbooks8346]

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

[@milchreis9554]

There is also a Wuthering Hights with vampires!

[@itsdivyag]

omg hahaha thank you for this

[@isabelbooks8346]

@@itsdivyag 😂 you’re welcome! Lol

[@amandalee9583]

Jacqueline Wilson was my childhood I had a whole shelf dedicated to her books which eventually merged into 2 shelves

[@lulujones]

Yo who remember the dustbin baby tv movie tho, that ish was brutal

[@itsdivyag]

THIS MOVIE WAS ICONIC

[@marisp2588]

We had the scholastic book fair in Canada too! It was one of the best days of the year!

[@itsdivyag]

it was so fun

[@justmahir]

Private Peaceful was my 2nd experience in the hardship of life 1st experience was my dad leaving me

[@itsdivyag]

afssdklfsd

[@peaxchyhearts3398]

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

[@justanotherpiccplayer3511]

11+ is only for private schools normally, most people don't do em, I didnt and I also think that the idea of grammar schools is awful in every way

[@itsdivyag]

really?! i thought grammar schools had to do them too wow i really went through all that for no reason

[@hannahb4100]

She really skipped flat stanley

[@amorfati5922]

:(

[@itsdivyag]

IM SORRY AHAHFDSA ngl I didn't think people actually watch these videos sometimes so I just like CUT CUT CUT

[@star70604]

omg my asian dad forced me to read rich dad when i was younger too

[@itsdivyag]

omg did it help

[@SD-xm8qw]

Tunnels. Tunnels ruined me forever. It was a good series, but everyone died. Horribly. Protagonist’s brother? Shot while surrendering. Love interest’s dad? Disease. Love interest? Trapped forever in a cave with her dad’s body. Favorite character? Hit by a nuclear missile and then killed by snipers. Protagonist’s best friend? Goes insane then shot with a crossbow. Those books still haunt me today.

[@andromeda_va39]

We have Scholastic Book Fairs in the United States, too! Gosh, those were the best!

[@itsdivyag]

we love that international same childhood

[@sortasofi254]

hush hush made me need therapy like patch cipriano was a WEIRDO

[@boblyith]

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

[@samih5916]

One of the stories I enjoyed reading especially as a teenager is the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore which is about a boy called James Adams who him along with his sister Lauren get recruited to CHERUB which is a British Security Service which employs children, well mostly orphans to hire and train them to be secret agents and when I read the books, I feel James, Lauren and the rest of their friends exist for real.

[@itsdivyag]

oooh this sounds fun

[@itsdivyag]

very james bond esque

[@samih5916]

@@itsdivyag yep it sure is

[@samih5916]

@@itsdivyag yeah it is similar to James Bond, I'd recommend you to read them.

[@adalie4632]

There use to be scholastic book fairs 📚 at my school here in good ol’ ‘Merica. My favorite books of all time was the Dear America series. They. Were. So. Awesomeeeee. And I remember that I had to read a lot of books that I would not have read other wise because they were assigned. Honorary mentions: Maniac Magee, Old Yeller, Charlotte’s Web, and something about kids who ran away and lived in a museum.

[@charlotterouge8107]

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler! I read that once as a kid, and all I can remember is one of the siblings eating paper before they actually run away to live in the museum.

[@adalie4632]

@@charlotterouge8107 OH. MY. GOSH. THAT IS EXACTLY THE BOOOOOK!!!! I remember thaaat!!!! Yeesh, what a sleeper agent.

[@ponytailproductions2503]

Dork diaries will always be very near and dear to my heart

[@cranfaerie]

We have Scholastic in Canada too!

[@artifexi3570]

I loved rainbow fairies but I NEVER FOUND MY NAME and it upset me for years This year I went on fandom wiki AND A FAIRY W/ MY NAME EXISTS we have the same fave ice cream and everything

[@itsdivyag]

THIS IS FATE

[@Estelle-f9w]

we had book fairs in america as well in school

[@katrinamoores4016]

Our queen got sponsored!!!! get that bread ms. Divya!!

[@celestebellebethebelle6505]

My sister Jodie unoooo only the brits will understand

[@alicebergonzi3802]

That book was confusing and painful in about equal measure.

[@itsdivyag]

iconic literature

[@lindajohnson4204]

We had Scholastic Book Fairs in the US, all the way back to when I was a child, and I'll be 70 next month. Apparently they still work the same way, with the exception of the book merch sold now. We couldn't buy toys to go with our books.

[@andromeda_va39]

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.

[@itsdivyag]

No worries it was a joke

[@andromeda_va39]

@@itsdivyag Classic me, missing the joke lol, I just know there are some people who would actually get that sort of message from it

[@wabbitwabbit98]

We had these Scholastic Book fairs in my school in India too!

[@erentoraman2663]

The hungry caterpillar scared me so much as a kid

[@grane1850]

Am I the only one who got traumatized by W.C Anderson and her Flowers in Attic series.......

[@kousetsuhana]

great video made greater by the bloopers!

[@itsdivyag]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@katrinamoores4016]

Also? Including captions? Bless u forever

[@itsdivyag]

hehe tysm

[@angierose1428]

The worst witch was made into a Netflix series for kids