![]() Rogers’s neighborhood, where a fixed storytelling routine and familiar characters bring comfort to children as they seek to navigate a world that becomes ever more complicated as they grow up. But readers who love Bear Country consider it a place not unlike Mr. Over the years, the Berenstains drew criticism for promoting long-outmoded gender roles and overly simple life lessons. ![]() Those books have been translated into almost two dozen languages and have inspired television shows, amusement park rides, McDonald’s Happy Meal collectibles and animal crackers made in the bears’ images. Since the release in 1962 of the first Berenstain Bears volume, “ The Big Honey Hunt,” the series has sold about 260 million books. Berenstain’s treehouse-dwelling ursine family - hapless Papa in his overalls, wise Mama in her polka-dot dress and kerchief, and their three archetypal children. Her husband, Stan Berenstain, died in 2005 at 82.įew American youngsters finish elementary school without taking a walk “down a sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country” and getting to know Mrs. ![]() She had suffered a stroke last week, her son Michael Berenstain said. 24 at a hospital near her home in Bucks County, Pa. Jan Berenstain, the children’s author who with her husband created the Berenstain Bears, whose winsome antics filled more than 300 picture books and helped guide millions of young readers through the vicissitudes of childhood, died Feb. ![]()
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