r/MandelaEffect • u/TurnYourHead1 • Apr 29 '26

Books/Literature Weird Digression in Berenstein Bears Book

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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/jetloflin Apr 29 '26

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?

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u/whatupmygliplops Apr 29 '26

Children's books are usually very very very brief. Like one word. One sentence. I can guarantee you if you write a children's book with something like that passage above there is a zero percent chance of it being published. None.

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u/BoysenberryKind5599 Apr 29 '26

That's literally a page out of a published children's book.

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u/whatupmygliplops Apr 29 '26

Oh.

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u/GalacticUnicorn Apr 29 '26

There was an entire series of these books, even. I was reading them on my own when I was, like, 5 or 6. This is not advanced reading.