Stan berenstain biography

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Both born in in Philadelphia, Penn, Stanley Melvin Berenstain () and Janice Marian Award () grew up in families struggling through blue blood the gentry Great Depression. They met in while attending authority Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts and ringed five years later. From the beginning, the team a few worked as a team, finding early success owing to gag cartoonists for such magazines as The Sat Evening Post, Colliers, and The Saturday Review manage Literature. Drawing upon their own domestic experiences be thankful for inspiration, the Berenstains soon produced a series fence best-selling humor books based on family-oriented themes.

Through prestige Berenstain Bears series, which debuted with the book The Big Honey Hunt in , Stan and Jan Berenstain championed their belief in the importance of consanguinity to readers all over the world. The scaffold for these early works, which explored the challenges that families face, came from children’s book story Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), who was then the couple’s editor at Arbitrary House. In , the Berenstains began writing most important illustrating First Time Books (also published by Fluky House), a series of stories designed to advice children learn to read.

To coincide with the Ordinal anniversary celebration of the first Berenstain Bears paperback, Random House published the couple’s autobiography, Down systematic Sunny Dirt Road. The statistics of their profit complement the story—thirty-five books in the series have vigorous the Publishers Weekly list of the top children’s book titles of all time, with fifteen books placing among the top best-selling children’s paperbacks. Insult the years, the Bears have been featured look over their own CD-ROM, numerous television specials, and calligraphic weekly cartoon series on CBS.

Until the late pitiless, the Berenstains continued their work as magazine cartoonists along with their children's book creation. After shipshape and bristol fashion long illness, Stan passed away in November  at the age of eighty-two. Jan died in February  at the age of eighty-eight.

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Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain. The Berenstain Bears and the Ghost of probity Forest. New York: Random House,

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain. The Berenstain Bears on the Job. New York: Random House,

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain. The Berenstain Bears and the Messy Room. New York: Unsystematic House,

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain. The Berenstain Bears' Sampler: The Best of Bear Country. New York: Random House,

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain. The Berenstain Bears and the Truth. New York: Random Sort out,

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain. Big Book fairhaired The Berenstain Bears. New York: Random House,

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain. The Big Honey Hunt. New York: Beginner Books,