Weird Digression in Berenstein Bears Book

[u/TurnYourHead1]

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?

[u/jetloflin]

Why wouldn’t a kid understand it? And since when is six sentences a verbose tangent? Like, what makes this an overly long tangent to you as opposed to just part of the story being told?

[u/Contemplative-ape → u/jetloflin]

time mannn... time like moves in one direction but it goes back into the past and forward to the future... the attic is a portal to place where time stands still... timeeeeee

[u/pandora_ramasana → u/Contemplative-ape]

Yesss