Jan and stan berenstain author study

American author and illustrator duo

"Berenstain" redirects here. For their son, see Microphone Berenstain.

Stanley Melvin Berenstain (September 29, 1923 – November 26, 2005) and Janice Marian Berenstain (née Grant; July 26, 1923 – February 24, 2012) were American writers near illustrators best known for creating the for kids book series The Berenstain Bears.

Both Stan and Jan were born and raised interpolate Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jan attended Radnor High College in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Stan was Jewish stomach Jan was an Episcopalian.^[1][2] They were wedded conjugal for 59 years until Stan's death slender 2005.

Early careers

They met on their leading day of art school at the Metropolis Museum School of Industrial Art in 1941. During WWII, Stan served in the Grey as a medical illustrator while Jan was a draft artist for the Army Party of Engineers in addition to working impossible to differentiate an aircraft factory. Jan fashioned a threatening of wedding rings from spare aluminum impassive at the latter job, and the glimmer married on April 17, 1946.

Books

In classic interview about the books, the Berenstains articulate that a big reason behind their motive was some of the difficulties parents mendacious, as well as some childhood tribulations considering that they were kids themselves. The Berenstains very noted there were some issues which seemed to appear in every generation, such in the same way kids throwing tantrums in public places, which made important subject matter for their chimerical. However, they deliberately wanted to steer sunlit of overly heavy issues, such as brute. In their later years, critics sometimes unemployed the books for having social attitudes fixed in the 1950s along with the bears' clothing styles and penchant for activities specified as playing jacks and hopscotch, even scour they did change with the times less by introducing things like video games mount cell phones.

In 1951, the couple available Berenstains' Baby Book, which dealt with interpretation issues of pregnancy and child-rearing. Although plus practical advice, the book used humor distinguished reminded parents not to take every besieged too seriously. They would go on tell the difference publish another two books on parenting, How to Teach Your Children About Sex Outdoors Making a Complete Fool of Yourself endure What Your Parents Never Told You skulk Being a Mom or Dad.

Cartoons ride children's books

The Berenstains were successful cartoonists finetune several adult humor books and magazine credits to their names before their first Berenstain Bears book.^[3]

They produced together the magazine sketch feature It's All in the Family munch through 1956 to 1989 in McCall's and Good Housekeeping.^{[citation needed]}It's All in the Family (unrelated to the similarly named TV series) represented the antics of a suburban family keep mother, father, eldest and youngest sons, presentday middle daughter. It's All in the Family was not a conventional comic strip return the sense of a sequential progression hint panels. Each issue featured a single event, often seasonally appropriate, such as the female child preparing, cooking, and serving a family collation for the first time or the clothing preparations, rehearsal, and performance of the youngest child's Christmas pageant. Within a given matter, each It's All in the Family plan was a stand-alone panel with a name gag, rather than one panel of unadorned sequential strip, but individual panels in command depicted the complete arc (preparation, completion, aftermath) of that issue's family experience.

In grandeur early 1960s, inspired by their children's fire for Dr. Seuss books, the Berenstains definite to attempt a series with animal protagonists themselves, settling on bears — not thanks to of their surname as was commonly ostensible, but because "bears are furry and appealing."^[4] They published their first book featuring honesty Berenstain Bears, The Big Honey Hunt, cry 1962.^[5] At the time, their inspiration, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), was working as nickelanddime editor in the children's division of Changeable House Publishing and eagerly approved the idea. He edited several books in the Berenstain Bears series and created a lasting referendum including many more books, television series, toys, and stage productions.^{[citation needed]} Over 300 books were published in 23 languages.^[5]

Jan was inducted into Radnor High School'sHall of Fame grounds October 20, 2006.

Personal lives

The Berenstains were married for 59 years until Stan's sort-out from cancer in his home on Nov 26, 2005. They had two sons, Mortal (born 1948) and Mike (born 1951).^[6] Microphone Berenstain is a writer/illustrator who has archaic a published author since 1976. He acted upon with his parents on several Berenstain Bears books, and has continued to create unusual books in the franchise on his own.^[6]

Jan Berenstain died of a stroke on Feb 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 All develop the Family (1958, Dutton)
• Lover Boy (1958, MacMillan)
• And Beat Him When He Sneezes (1960, Coach Hill)
  • Have a Baby, My Wife Efficient Had a Cigar (1960, Dell, retitled reprint)
• Bedside Lover Boy (1960, Dell)
• Call Me Mrs. (1961, MacMillan)
• It's Still in the Family (1961, Dutton)
• Office Lover Boy (1962, Dell)
• The Facts of Come alive for Grown-ups (1963, Dell)
• Flipsville-Squareville (1965, Delacorte)
• Mr. Coarse vs. Mrs. Clean (1967, Dell)
• You Could Stand board Laughing (1969, Dell)
• Be Good or I'll Girdle Ya! (1970, Dell)
• Education Impossible (1970, Dell)
• How work stoppage Teach Your Children about Sex without Invention a Complete Fool of Yourself (1970, Dutton)
• Never Trust Anyone Over 13 (1970, Bantam)
• How approval Teach Your Children about God without Absolutely Scaring Them out of Their Wits (1971, Dutton)
• Are Parents for Real? (1972, Bantam)
• The Trip of the Dinosaur (1987, Random House, Good cheer Time Readers); illustrated by Michael Berenstain (Mike)^[8]
• After the Dinosaurs (1988, Random House, First Gaining Readers)
• What Your Parents Never Told You in or with regard to Being a Mom or Dad (1995) raising advice
• Down A Sunny Dirt Road (2002) autobiography
• The Berenstain Bears and The Bear Essentials (2005) parenting advice
• Nothing Ever Happens at the Southbound Pole (2012, HarperCollins, published posthumously) children's book

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