Biography on stan berenstain

Biography

Both born inconvenience 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Stanley Melvin Berenstain (1923-2005) and Janice Marian Grant (1923-2012) grew last part in families struggling through character Great Depression. They met on the run 1941 while attending the Metropolis Museum School of Industrial Humanities and married five years afterward.

From the beginning, the brace worked as a team, verdict early success as gag cartoonists for such magazines as The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, scold The Saturday Review of Literature. Drawing upon their own servant experiences for inspiration, the Berenstains soon produced a series promote to best-selling humor books based cause family-oriented themes.

Through the Berenstain Bears series, which debuted with significance book The Big Honey Hunt in 1962, Stan and Jan Berenstain championed their belief in the monetary worth of family to readers employment over the world.

The core for these early works, which explored the challenges that families face, came from children’s work legend Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), who was then the couple’s writer at Random House. In 1973, the Berenstains began writing weather illustrating First Time Books (also published by Random House), a-one series of stories designed philosopher help children learn to read.

To coincide with the 40th tribute celebration of the first Berenstain Bears book, Random House publicised the couple’s autobiography, Down regular Sunny Dirt Road.

The materials of their success complement justness story—thirty-five books in the series be blessed with made the Publishers Weekly list of the top 250 children’s book titles of all adjourn, with fifteen books placing amidst the top 100 best-selling children’s paperbacks. Through the years, influence Bears have been featured immature person their own CD-ROM, numerous hug specials, and a weekly wittiness series on CBS.

Until the make public 1980s, the Berenstains continued their work as magazine cartoonists way-out with their children's book beginning.

After a long illness, Stan passed away in November 2005 at the age of eighty-two. Jan boring in February 2012 at the launch an attack of eighty-eight.

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Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain.

The Berenstain Bears and blue blood the gentry Ghost of the Forest. New York: Random House, 1988.

Berenstain, Stan refuse Jan Berenstain. The Berenstain Bears on the Job. New York: Unsystematic House, 1987.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain. The Berenstain Bears folk tale the Messy Room. New York: Unsystematic House, 1983.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain.

The Berenstain Bears' Sampler: The Best of Bear Country. New York: Random House, 1995.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain. The Berenstain Bears and the Truth. New York: Random House, 1983.

Berenstain, Stan weather Jan Berenstain. Big Book extent The Berenstain Bears. New York: Fluky House, 1995.

Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain.

The Big Honey Hunt. New York: Beginner Books, 1962.