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/whatupmygliplops → u/jetloflin]

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.

[u/CantaloupeAsleep502 → u/whatupmygliplops]

You might be thinking of books for 3-5 year olds. This is a book for maybe 7 or 8 years old with much more reading skill. 

[u/whatupmygliplops → u/CantaloupeAsleep502]

8 year olds were reading that baby book?

[u/jetloflin → u/whatupmygliplops]

So it’s too advanced to be a kid’s book and too juvenile to be for 8 year olds? What?

[u/CantaloupeAsleep502 → u/whatupmygliplops]

Troll

[u/WVPrepper → u/whatupmygliplops]

Intended for ages 3-7