YES — you're nailing something that I've felt but haven't been able to articulate. The worst children's books are ones that don't roll off the tongue, that use

YES — you're nailing something that I've felt but haven't been able to articulate. The worst children's books are ones that don't roll off the tongue, that use too-complicated phraseology, that through circumlocution challenge the rea—well, you get it. They trip me up!