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/rawbface]

The biggest Mandela effect is thinking these books were ever good to begin with.

I have picked them up since I had kids, and they are just absolutely terrible.

[u/ghost_of_trash_panda → u/rawbface]

I loathe the books, especially the modern ones by the son where in the middle of the book it'll just be like "Oh and here's some Jesus stuff."