I only like children books...

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As you can see I'm 20 years old. I can't stand reading long novels and I only enjoy reading children books. I only have a few children books at home so I like to read them. One day, I might just go to the library to get children books. The librarian may think its for my little brother/sister or for my children/nephew/niece .

Anyone else only enjoy children novels?

The librarian probably would think that, or think nothing of it.

I like some children's books. Not novels, just an occasional picture book. They can be cute or amusing and sometimes they have surprisingly nice art.

Yeah, this.
I've gotten over the childrens' novels; no offense to anyone who likes to read them, but I feel like they're "dumbing" everything down and I feel like an imbecile whenever I read even one page of one now... Oh, hyperlexia, how I love thee.

I thought A Day No Pigs Would Die was fantastic when I read it when I was about your age. I wouldn't worry about it. I had a girlfriend that used to enjoy coloring well into her 20's who was neurotypical and she had an excellent job. I would avoid the Harry Potter books, but that is just me. . Reading should be a pleasurable experience.

I love picture books. I recommend 'Effie', 'Moosetace', and 'Oh! The Places You'll Go!'

Harry Potter books are too long for me.

Get a copy of Red Shift.

Ah, the joy of being in control of one's obsessions, and not feeling the constant need to foist 'em on others...

I like children and teens' ones, not children's ones as such (anyway, it depends on a particular book) - for example the Bastables' adventures, L. M. Montgomery's books for little and teenage girls or, out of the modern ones, the Harry Potter series. In my late childhood I came across a children's book entitled Kajtuś the Wizard, written by a famous children's books author from the first half of the previous century who died in a concentration camp during the war, Janusz Korczak. He didn't want to leave the kids from his orphanage so he decided on death with them. It was a children's book I liked even as a teen (the last time I ever borrowed it from a library was when I was 16 and very embarassed that I was borrowing a kids' novel). One long lasting (since I was 13 up until somewhere in my early 20's) fantasy world I constucted was based on some characters and events from this very novel. Now I don't like it that much as before (I downloaded it from the net some time ago) but it's still a very nice read for a child (its popularity back in the 30's was compared to the one of the HP series now). It's a children's book not one for teens unlike HP. I also really like Peter Pan for I'm fascinated with the story behind it.

I don't read anything that doesn't make my head hurt.

^^ Yaye greetings jc6chan.

I believe that my lovely niece allowed me to borrow some of her little bookies named The Spiderwick Chronicles a small number of years within the past, and I enjoy these very much indeed I believe.

I also enjoy children's books. I like the illustrations. I also enjoy reading books on bands and musicians and also autobiograhpies.

I'm 50 and I do. I particularly like "Letters From Rifka." It's a really good read.

I couldn't think of anything more unimaginitive than children's books. The thought of reading something like Harry Potter though... some people will say I'm missing out and don't have a clue what I'm talking about.

I just read the first novel from the Borrowers series - I once took it from a library but I didn't like it much, also for this reason that I was already in my teens at that moment. But now I am fascinated with the family of little people who had to borrow stuff from humans to survive, I even spin similar fantasies in my head for a long time but the families constructed by me in my head are always large - my recent one consists of 10 kids plus their parents, while the Borrowers are just parents with one kid which is boring - Aretta should have brothers and sisters to play with.

I enjoy reading childrens' books (although I enjoy lots of other books too). The librarian will probably assume you are getting the books for a young family member, since most adults won't get them for themselves.

But here's a secret that many parents have, including me. Lots of parents (including me) use parenthood as an excuse to read as many childrens' books as we want without feeling guilty. Why feel guilty? Because the conventional wisdom is that once you become an adult, the simple plots should be insufficiently complex and challenging for you. But the truth is that it often just feels good to read a childrens' book, even though it isn't complex or challenging.

Lots of parents are delighted to have an "excuse" to read childrens' books and read them even when their kids aren't around. I guess it's one of the foolish things of NTs (and I am one) that a person needs an excuse in the first place. But there it is. The only NT adults who are "allowed" to read childrens' books without being called immature are parents. And believe me parents jump at this opportunity and read childrens' books maybe just as much as the children themselves.