Anticlimactic book that could have had a message.
It starts out having a point and then kind of loses track of it halfway through. It's a strange ending to have in something that seemed like it was going to have a moral.
None.
Papa Bear fails at riding a bicycle.
Another stupid old Berenstain Bears book where Papa tries to teach Small Bear how to ride a bike and keeps not listening to his own advice and getting maimed and mangled in various ways, and Small Bear just thanks him for showing him what not to do.
Be careful when you ride bikes.
Hot days make everyone grouchy.
It's a prose poem where the repetition is enough to create parallelism but not too much where it becomes annoying. The diction isn't overly simplistic and the pictures are interesting to look at.
People get mad at their friends, but then they get over it.
Intelligent doughnuts and the implications thereof.
I don't think it would upset children. I don't think children would understand the implications of this. Maybe I'm just weird-- no. No. The book is definitely weird. It's not me.
None. It defies morals.
Don't do this to your kids.
What?! This isn't... bad... it's just stupid. So there's a realistic problem, and a stupid resolution to it. It's not harmful, but it's not helpful.
Babies take a lot of attention.
Toys can be sad too. Or not.
Instead of just complaining to the bear that he looks sad, they actually try to cheer him up. They're clearly all well-meaning about it.
People aren't always sad even if they look sad. Or, don't jump to conclusions based on how someone looks.
Ancient China is a terrible place.
It's kind of like the adventure is thrown in for the sake of adventure. There's no character development, there's no real interesting story line, it's just them fleeing constantly.
Ancient China is interesting. Or, don't open magic books.
A weird legend without a point.
Nothing happens at the end. Nothing changes. They don't get anything from their experience except a story to tell.
None.
Jingoistic nonsense.
It's not going to teach anybody the alphabet, and it's not really interesting. I mean, the things it talks about are important, but there is just so much text crammed onto every page in little, tiny locations.
America is the best. America is awesome.
Pretending random things children do are planned.
It's a little bit humorous to see it set off as if she had considered the implications ahead of time and came to that decision, but it doesn't work as well as the followup book, 11 Experiments That Failed.
None.
