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Adult Reboots of Children’s Books

The stories you grew up with, made not at all suitable for children

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One Fish, Two Fish, I Work Blue Fish
Goodnight Mooning
The Very Humpy Caterpillar
Harold and the Purple Rain
Pay the Bunny
Where the Things Wild AF
James and the Angry Inch
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