Summary Certain "kids" books stand out in the memories of millennials because they were completely traumatized by reading them for the first time. Like with any other aspect of pop culture, there is a collection of literature that is strongly associated with the era in which millennials grew up, and not necessarily because that's when the relevant books were published.
Charlotte's Web highlights themes of accepting things one cannot change, mainly the eventuality of death. 8 The Hundred Dresses By Eleanor Estes The Hundred Dresses is a poignant depiction of inequality and how discrimination takes shape among children. A poor Polish-American girl called Wanda is bullied by her classmates, especially due to her wearing the same dress every day. She defensively tells them that she owns a hundred dresses, which they don't believe.
6 Goosebumps: Night Of The Living Dummy By R. L. Stine The Goosebumps books inspired a generation with their unique brand of horror, both goofily macabre and genuinely spine-chilling. Now a new generation is experiencing the stories as well, with Disney's Goosebumps TV show inspired by the books utilizing different elements from R. L. Stine's compendium. The 62 Goosebumps collectively include a veritable menagerie of unsettling images and creatures to scare children.
The dogs' demise is an event that continues to shock young readers when they are assigned Where the Red Fern Grows in school. 3 The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein The Giving Tree has not aged as well as some other children's books when people have become more critical of the alleged one-sided relationship it depicts. The tree gives everything it has to the boy as he grows into a man until all that is left is a stump. Even then, the stump is there when the old man just wants to sit for a while. The last thing the reader sees is the diminished image of the two of them together.