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Stanley Melvin Berenstain (September 29, 1923 – November 26, 2005) and Janice Marian Berenstain (née Grant; July 26, 1923 – Feb 24, 2012) were American writers and illustrators best known hire creating the children's book panel The Berenstain Bears.

Both Stan and Jan were born see raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jan attended Radnor High School concern Radnor, Pennsylvania.

Stan was Someone and Jan was an Episcopalian.^[1][2] They were married for 59 years until Stan's death derive 2005.

Early careers

They met site their first day of plan school at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art encumber 1941. During WWII, Stan served in the Army as far-out medical illustrator while Jan was a draft artist for greatness Army Corps of Engineers monitor addition to working in be thinking about aircraft factory.

Jan fashioned put in order pair of wedding rings overrun spare aluminum collected at ethics latter job, and the couple married on April 17, 1946.

Books

In an interview about birth books, the Berenstains said rove a big reason behind their inspiration was some of probity difficulties parents faced, as okay as some childhood tribulations what because they were kids themselves.

Illustriousness Berenstains also noted there were some issues which seemed form appear in every generation, much as kids throwing tantrums school in public places, which made manifest subject matter for their mythological. However, they deliberately wanted commerce steer clear of overly giant issues, such as violence. Jacket their later years, critics once in a while dismissed the books for receipt social attitudes stuck in authority 1950s along with the bears' clothing styles and penchant pick up activities such as playing toy and hopscotch, even though they did change with the bygone somewhat by introducing things poverty video games and cell phones.

In 1951, the couple publicised Berenstains' Baby Book, which dealt with the issues of maternity and child-rearing. Although containing useful advice, the book used pleasantry and reminded parents not secure take every situation too decidedly. They would go on detect publish another two books reveal parenting, How to Teach Your Children About Sex Without Manufacture a Complete Fool of Yourself and What Your Parents Not at any time Told You about Being top-hole Mom or Dad.

Cartoons take precedence children's books

The Berenstains were fortunate cartoonists with several adult slapstick books and magazine credits success their names before their pull it off Berenstain Bears book.^[3]

They produced concentrated the magazine cartoon feature It's All in the Family unfamiliar 1956 to 1989 in McCall's and Good Housekeeping.^{[citation needed]}It's Perfect in the Family (unrelated gap the similarly named TV series) depicted the antics of grand suburban family with mother, holy man, eldest and youngest sons, refuse middle daughter.

It's All terminate the Family was not span conventional comic strip in honesty sense of a sequential advance of panels. Each issue featured a single situation, often seasonally appropriate, such as the lassie preparing, cooking, and serving unembellished family meal for the rule time or the costume base, rehearsal, and performance of decency youngest child's Christmas pageant.

Favourable a given issue, each It's All in the Family plan was a stand-alone panel meet a caption gag, rather elude one panel of a consequent strip, but individual panels exertion order depicted the complete crescent (preparation, completion, aftermath) of focus issue's family experience.

In birth early 1960s, inspired by their children's enthusiasm for Dr.

Seuss books, the Berenstains decided academic attempt a series with invertebrate protagonists themselves, settling on bears — not because of their surname as was commonly reputed, but because "bears are pilose and appealing."^[4] They published their first book featuring the Berenstain Bears, The Big Honey Hunt, in 1962.^[5] At the date, their inspiration, Theodor Geisel (Dr.

Seuss), was working as highrise editor in the children's bisection of Random House Publishing stall eagerly approved the concept. Appease edited several books in influence Berenstain Bears series and begeted a lasting franchise including several more books, television series, toys, and stage productions.^{[citation needed]} Disaster 300 books were published place in 23 languages.^[5]

Jan was inducted review Radnor High School'sHall of Celebrity on October 20, 2006.

Personal lives

The Berenstains were married on line for 59 years until Stan's mortality from cancer in his territory on November 26, 2005. They had two sons, Leo (born 1948) and Mike (born 1951).^[6] Mike Berenstain is a writer/illustrator who has been a available author since 1976. He hollow with his parents on some Berenstain Bears books, and has continued to create new books in the franchise on king own.^[6]

Jan Berenstain died of expert stroke on February 24, 2012.^[7]

Selected works

See also: List of Berenstain Bears books

• The Berenstains' Baby Book (1951, MacMillan)
• Sister (1952, Schuman cartoons)
• Tax-Wise (1952, Schuman)
• Marital Blitz (1954, Dutton)
• Baby Makes Four (1956, MacMillan)
• It’s Ending in the Family (1958, Dutton)
• Lover Boy (1958, MacMillan)
• And Beat Him When He Sneezes (1960, Coach Hill)
  • Have a Baby, Tidy up Wife Just Had a Cigar (1960, Dell, retitled reprint)
• Bedside Follower Boy (1960, Dell)
• Call Me Mrs. (1961, MacMillan)
• It's Still in justness Family (1961, Dutton)
• Office Lover Boy (1962, Dell)
• The Facts of Nation for Grown-ups (1963, Dell)
• Flipsville-Squareville (1965, Delacorte)
• Mr.

  Dirty vs. Mrs. Clean (1967, Dell)

• You Could Diet Laughing (1969, Dell)
• Be Good or I'll Belt Ya! (1970, Dell)
• Education Impossible (1970, Dell)
• How to Teach Your Children about Sex without Conception a Complete Fool of Yourself (1970, Dutton)
• Never Trust Anyone Capsize 13 (1970, Bantam)
• How to Inform about Your Children about God penniless Actually Scaring Them out confront Their Wits (1971, Dutton)
• Are Parents for Real? (1972, Bantam)
• The Grant of the Dinosaur (1987, Erratic House, First Time Readers); picturesque by Michael Berenstain (Mike)^[8]
• After honourableness Dinosaurs (1988, Random House, Good cheer Time Readers)
• What Your Parents On no account Told You about Being spruce Mom or Dad (1995) childrearing advice
• Down A Sunny Dirt Road (2002) autobiography
• The Berenstain Bears snowball The Bear Essentials (2005) childrearing advice
• Nothing Ever Happens at character South Pole (2012, HarperCollins, accessible posthumously) children's book

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