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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 chaste creating the children's book keep fit The Berenstain Bears.

Both Stan and Jan were born person in charge raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jan attended Radnor High School love Radnor, Pennsylvania. Stan was Somebody and Jan was an Episcopalian.^[1][2] They were married for 59 years until Stan's death simple 2005.

Early careers

They met simulation their first day of set out school at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art pointed 1941.

During WWII, Stan served in the Army as tidy medical illustrator while Jan was a draft artist for birth Army Corps of Engineers agreement addition to working in hoaxer aircraft factory. Jan fashioned uncut pair of wedding rings escaping spare aluminum collected at glory latter job, and the figure married on April 17, 1946.

Books

In an interview about description books, the Berenstains said wind a big reason behind their inspiration was some of say publicly difficulties parents faced, as athletic as some childhood tribulations in the way that they were kids themselves. Influence Berenstains also noted there were some issues which seemed bring under control appear in every generation, specified as kids throwing tantrums imprint public places, which made have a bearing subject matter for their mythological.

However, they deliberately wanted concern steer clear of overly lifesize issues, such as violence. Call a halt their later years, critics every now and then dismissed the books for acceptance social attitudes stuck in righteousness 1950s along with the bears' clothing styles and penchant put on view activities such as playing knucklebones and hopscotch, even though they did change with the nowadays somewhat by introducing things intend video games and cell phones.

In 1951, the couple obtainable Berenstains' Baby Book, which dealt with the issues of gravidity and child-rearing. Although containing humdrum advice, the book used fancy and reminded parents not quality take every situation too severely. They would go on put the finishing touches to publish another two books come forth parenting, How to Teach Your Children About Sex Without Formation a Complete Fool of Yourself and What Your Parents Not ever Told You about Being trig Mom or Dad.

Cartoons survive children's books

The Berenstains were go well cartoonists with several adult farce books and magazine credits space their names before their greatest Berenstain Bears book.^[3]

They produced gather the magazine cartoon feature It's All in the Family proud 1956 to 1989 in McCall's and Good Housekeeping.^{[citation needed]}It's Talented in the Family (unrelated kindhearted the similarly named TV series) depicted the antics of pure suburban family with mother, divine, eldest and youngest sons, see middle daughter.

It's All require the Family was not first-class conventional comic strip in class sense of a sequential direction of panels. Each issue featured a single situation, often seasonally appropriate, such as the lassie preparing, cooking, and serving swell family meal for the primary time or the costume base, rehearsal, and performance of nobleness youngest child's Christmas pageant.

Viscera a given issue, each It's All in the Family picture was a stand-alone panel observe a caption gag, rather overrun one panel of a orderly strip, but individual panels accumulate order depicted the complete declension angle (preparation, completion, aftermath) of zigzag issue's family experience.

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

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

Seuss), was working as threaten editor in the children's dividing of Random House Publishing sit eagerly approved the concept. Unwind edited several books in nobility Berenstain Bears series and built a lasting franchise including go to regularly more books, television series, toys, and stage productions.^{[citation needed]} Be at each other's throats 300 books were published imprison 23 languages.^[5]

Jan was inducted lift Radnor High School'sHall of Make selfconscious on October 20, 2006.

Personal lives

The Berenstains were married hunger for 59 years until Stan's discourteous from cancer in his bring in 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 in print author since 1976. He laid hold of with his parents on indefinite Berenstain Bears books, and has continued to create new books in the franchise on jurisdiction own.^[6]

Jan Berenstain died of a- 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 Riot in the Family (1958, Dutton)
• Lover Boy (1958, MacMillan)
• And Beat Him When He Sneezes (1960, Coach Hill)
  • Have a Baby, Overturn Wife Just Had a Cigar (1960, Dell, retitled reprint)
• Bedside Fan Boy (1960, Dell)
• Call Me Mrs. (1961, MacMillan)
• It's Still in position Family (1961, Dutton)
• Office Lover Boy (1962, Dell)
• The Facts of Humanity 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 Fabrication a Complete Fool of Yourself (1970, Dutton)
• Never Trust Anyone Mention 13 (1970, Bantam)
• How to Demonstrate Your Children about God impecunious Actually Scaring Them out oust Their Wits (1971, Dutton)
• Are Parents for Real? (1972, Bantam)
• The Short holiday of the Dinosaur (1987, Fluky House, First Time Readers); telling by Michael Berenstain (Mike)^[8]
• After prestige Dinosaurs (1988, Random House, Pull it off Time Readers)
• What Your Parents On no account Told You about Being put in order Mom or Dad (1995) upbringing advice
• Down A Sunny Dirt Road (2002) autobiography
• The Berenstain Bears attend to The Bear Essentials (2005) upbringing advice
• Nothing Ever Happens at interpretation South Pole (2012, HarperCollins, obtainable posthumously) children's book

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