Is it OK that I like to read children's books?

You know you aren't dumb. I'm not really into giving teenagers validation. I can't even believe I read all this. No one has to know what you read, anyway, and other people are doing all kinds of things they don't want YOU to know about.

Of course you can read children's books. Why not? a good children's or YA book beats a bad adult one every time. C S Lewis said that the process of growing does not mean losing or rejecting the things we enjoyed, but adding to them. Acquiring a palate for fine wine doesn't mean you no longer enjoy lemonade, or a nice cup of tea.
Only the very young or the immature are afraid of admitting to liking the things they liked in childhood.

The anecdote about Mark Twain and a public library's refusal to have The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in its Children's Fiction section: "Good. I did not write the book for children."

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is in both the children's and adult sections and it's studied by grade school and graduate students.

Anne of Green Gables has also been used in Canadian History and in Women's History courses, as well as in the grade schools' literature courses.

There is a lot to be gained from re-reading children's books in adulthood.

P. G. Wodehouse's books, as j. mentioned, "give similar effects of safety, nostalgia". Wodehouse jokingly complained in the preface of one book that visitors will give his books to their loved ones in the hospitals to cheer them up. Frankly, we could all use some cheer and relaxation at the end of the day. Wodehouse's books were not only meant to be silly entertainment, they give us a bit of a skewed version of English Country House life, according to Merlin Waterson, editor of "The Country House Remembered" (interviews of people who lived in those houses between the world wars. BTW, the interviewees sound a lot like Wodehouse's characters (or the country house owners in Agatha Christie's, Ngaio Marsh's, and Dorothy Sayer's mysteries) in that their lives seemed insular and self-centered. The servants, villagers and tradespeople were quaint or almost invisible to those folk.

Wise and loving parents nurture and champion their children's inner child joy, kindness, and truthfulness, seek to heal childish fear, anger, and greed, and teach their children to do the same for themselves.

Such parenting encourages victory in life processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs http://www.rwm.org/rwm for example.

Some books written for "children of all ages" are readable throughout one's life, and one may learn more at each reading.

Some "adult" authors give similar effects of safety, nostalgia: P. G. Wodehouse ("The Code of the Woosters," for example).

Related: "The Neverending Story," "A Wrinkle in Time," "Flatland," "Bridge to Terabithia," "The Wind in the Willows," "Adventures of Alice in Wonderland," "The Great Divorce," "West with the Night," "Golden Rules for Everyday Life,""The Answer You're Looking for Is inside You."

There's nothing wrong about it, I think. I read lots of books when I was a child and still own most of them, and somtimes I re-read them. These are memories you want to relive time and time again.

But I also found out that some literature I had to read in school and really hated it now has another meaning to me. Shakespeare, for example. Well, I never was the patient guy, and Hamlet can be lengthy, it takes four and a half hours in the theater, but if you read it scene by scene, the beauty of the words becomes apparent. And they also tortured us with Goethe and Schiller, which I now love to read.

There's one thing, however, I think I'll never be a friend of, and that's poetry. I want a good story in plain text.

yes

No
This shows you're emotionally a child who is unwilling to stretch themselves.


Children's twaddle, you might as well like Star Wars and wear Iron Man PJs.