User talk:Grandma's revenge/sandbox

And if it is, aren't the Berenstain Bears simply teaching to the test, providing a lesson to be spit back, rather than one lived and understood and embraced? Where is the warmth, the spirit of discovery and imagination in Bear Country? Stan Berenstain taught a million lessons to children, but subtlety and plain old joy weren't among them.[16]

What does this critic want? What does he mean where is the warmth, the spirit of discovery and imagination in Bear country? What do mean there is no subtlety and plain old joy? How do these books lack those qualities?