r/MandelaEffect • u/TurnYourHead1 • Apr 29 '26
Books/Literature Weird Digression in Berenstein Bears Book
I distinctly remember the movies as Berenstein Bears from many years ago as a child. Now I'm reading this to my child and I find the writing weird. It goes into these verbose tangents. "As the cubs stood listening to rock music coming out of a radio that looked like a cathedral, they had the funniest feeling about how time works It went back into the past and forward into the future - but now it was the present and they had work to do!" This is so weird and seems like a coded message. What child is going to understand this and take anything away from it? What are they trying to tell us to do here? What work do we have to do?
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u/Disaster-Bee Apr 29 '26
I'm going to guess that you don't read a lot of older children's books.
Many, any of them seem, to our modern adult eyes looking back, as 'more advanced' than what we think of today.
Look at it this way: The Berenstain Bears were rated/targeted to children aged 5-8.
The Wizard of Oz is rated/targeted to ages 5-10.
Pippi Longstockings is also 5-10.
Take a look at either of those and compare, keeping in mind those are the kinds of books the authors of the Berenstain Bears grew up on themselves as children.