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April's Kittens

October 10, 2016

Textbook deus ex machina ending.

An inane, contrived story. They suddenly decide to move to a larger apartment. The end.

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None.

A Child's Good Night Book

October 10, 2016

Mostly innocuous but uninteresting.

A highly repetitive book, which is par for the course from Margaret Wise Brown. Every single animal in the frigging world is going to sleep.

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None.

The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree

October 7, 2016

Repetitive, overly simplistic pointless robbery book.

There's no real point. Pretty much everything is interchangeable. The characters are interchangeable. The plot points could have happened in any order.

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None.

The Berenstain Bears and Mama For Mayor

October 7, 2016

Basically half a book about political responsibility.

Huh? I'm so confused. It's like they didn't even care enough to finish the book.

Message

Don't run for mayor?

Bears in the Night

October 7, 2016

Unnecessary explicit preposition instruction.

Well, that was a complete lack of a story. This is from a time when people thought that you had to explicitly teach people these things. You don't!

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None.

Bartholomew and the Oobleck

October 7, 2016

Even the king makes mistakes.

It really supports the idea of swallowing your pride and apologizing, accepting the blame for something. I really like that message.

Message

Take responsibility for things that you do, even if they're wrong.

The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room

October 7, 2016

Mama flips out.

Maybe they could have a more natural consequence, like not being able to find what they're looking for, or falling over things that have been left in the middle of the floor. That happens too, and that could be a realistic consequence instead of Mama making threats because she's being taking advantage of as a parent.

Message

Keep your room clean.

Fish for Supper

October 7, 2016

Catch fish. Eat fish. Repeat.

It's descriptive. The pictures are all line drawings, very simple, with not a lot of detail. There's also not a lot of detail in the story.

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None.

The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor

October 7, 2016

Mixture of accurate information and inaccurate.

The doctor prescribes Papa some medicine for his cold, which is not a thing that exists. There is no medicine that gets prescribed for colds. They're viruses, not bacteria. But, hey.

Message

Don't be afraid of doctors.

A Sea-Wishing Day

October 7, 2016

Odd imaginative journey to the ocean.

It's kind of weird. I've known kids to be into animals and possibly boats, but being into the ocean itself is kind of strange.

Message

It's fun to imagine things.