Carney demolishes the Berenstain Bears in the Fall issue of Scooter.
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The incessant moral hectoring makes the dullness ever more excruciating. Each plot is organized around the relentless pursuit of a life lesson: Don’t be mean to your brother, mind your parents, wear your helmet and kneepads while skateboarding, don’t eat turkey on Thanksgiving. Fine enough advice, except for the weird turkey thing, but it is rendered tedious by the lack of imagination with which the themes are introduced, explored and resolved. It’s like watching a train wreck that you see coming a mile away—except there is no wreck. Just a train reliably pulling into station after station after station. The Berenstain books are the train spotting of children’s literature.
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This article is pretty spot on. To be fair, I loved the Berenstain Bears as a kid, especially the one where Mama Bear...
pegobry reblogged this from johncarney and added:
Children’s literature, with a few exceptions, seems awful and unnecessary to me.
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Carney demolishes the Berenstain Bears in the Fall issue of Scooter.
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