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The Berenstain Bears Patience, Please

The Berenstain Bears Patience, Please

byMike Berenstain
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Lady81
5.0 out of 5 starsThe Berenstain Bears Patience, Please
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 17, 2023
One of my favorite authors! I love the graphics and stories are relatable for our children and grandchildren.
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Acikam
3.0 out of 5 starsReligious content
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 5, 2023
Had no idea this book had such a strong religious message. It's going into the donation bin. Disappointed.
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Acikam
3.0 out of 5 stars Religious content
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 5, 2023
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Had no idea this book had such a strong religious message. It's going into the donation bin. Disappointed.
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JB
3.0 out of 5 stars Heads up: these books are now faith-based
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on August 12, 2020
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Ordered this without looking into it as I used to love Berenstain Bears as a kid. Once the son took over writing them in the 2000s, they've moved under a religious imprint of the publisher and speak directly about the Bible, God, and religion. Was not expecting this and isn't really our cup of tea. I don't want to give the book a bad rating for this reason, but just a warning to those looking at reviews.
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Kathryn
3.0 out of 5 stars Was unaware until purchasing this book that Berenstain Bears had a selection of 'religious' books.
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 23, 2020
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Love the Berenstain Bears books, love the lessons they pass on, but it is not my place to teach religion to our grandchildren or to the children in daycare so this book went to our local thrift shop. Now that I know how to identify the difference it will be no problem to purchase other Berenstain Bear books that teach without the religious references.
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King
3.0 out of 5 stars Multiple references to God and the Bible
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 16, 2020
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I loved Berenstain bears growing up but I don’t remember such overt references to God and the Bible. I loved the idea of this book teaching patience through gardening but on multiple pages it speaks specifically and directly about the bible, which as an atheist, isn’t my thing. Passing it on to my religious family member who will appreciate it.
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Insight
1.0 out of 5 stars Prioritizes preaching over teaching
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 5, 2022
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I can't read this to my kids. Even when silently skipping over all the unnecessary bible quotes and mentions of god, the story completely loses the plot and teaches nothing of patience, or any other virtues or morals likes the other stores do. Nowhere near the quality of previous books. I'm returning it.

I have nothing against exploring different belief systems once kids are old enough to use critical thinking. This book is clearly geared towards indoctrination (or at least for entertaining children that are already undergoing religious indoctrination). This marks the ends of my "faith" in the Berenstain Bears collection.
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Lulu
1.0 out of 5 stars Secretly religious!! Beware!!!
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 19, 2023
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This is one of two books I purchased from Amazon and both were religious without giving any indication thereof. Feels gross and sneaky to be pushing catholic literature through children’s books.
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Misha
3.0 out of 5 stars Not your original Berenstein Bears book.
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 4, 2020
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Not quite what I had expected based on older Berenstein Bears books I read to my child as they have a faith based element to them now. Not that that us necessarily a downfall, just was not as expected from Jan and Stan Berenstein book series
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Titimabaho
1.0 out of 5 stars Only Stan and Jan could write the books.
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 20, 2021
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Like everyone says this was a huge disappointment for me due to the fact that the author have to bring his religion in a children book. I grew up reading berenstain bears book and I wanted to buy some books for my kid and I don’t remember at all it been religious or mentioning of the bible. I like the parents’ version, from 90s and early 2000s. Everyone have a different beliefs or nonbelief and he shouldn’t be writing a well known children book classic and talk about as if Christianity is the only religion. Also each pages was so long, my kid got bored before I could turn the next page. It’s a kid book. Keep it short and simple and zero religion.
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Ms.Varricchio
3.0 out of 5 stars Praise Jesus?
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 21, 2020
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Probably should have noticed the Christian propaganda symbol on the corner before ordering.
The book is *ok* if you're into that whole mega punisher sky-daddy thing.
If not - hard pass.
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Ms.Varricchio
3.0 out of 5 stars Praise Jesus?
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 21, 2020
Probably should have noticed the Christian propaganda symbol on the corner before ordering.
The book is *ok* if you're into that whole mega punisher sky-daddy thing.
If not - hard pass.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Watching a garden grow
Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 16, 2021
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Not what I expected. Teaching children to be patient to see their garden grow.
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