Rejected Children’s Book Titles

July 7, 2007

A blog post put me on the trail of lists of rejected children’s book titles, from which I culled a few favorites:

• Juggling Knives is Easy
• You Can Get Sucked Down the Drain
• Your First Day at School and Why You’ll Never Come Home Again
• You Can Make a Plastic Bag Space Helmet
• Fun Experiments with Fire
• Little Hands, Big Toasters
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Commerce
• Curious George: How He Contracted the Virus
• Ears; Our Secret Hiding Places
• “Smell That?” A Golden Hygiene Book
• You are Different and That’s Bad
• A Children’s Guide to Hitchhiking
• Kathy Was So Bad Her Mommy Stopped Loving Her
• Some Kittens Can Fly
• Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will
• Horton Hears an Expletive

Tags: books, Humor