The popularity of the Berenstain Bears led to animated television shows based on the books.
Many of the stories aim to help guide children through common problems and bring comfort to new experiences, like visiting the dentist. Some people consider the books too simple in their life lessons and too traditional in their family values. But as Jan Berenstain told the Associated Press in twenty-eleven, "Family values is what we're all about."
She pointed out that while jokes may not travel well, everyone can understand family humor.
FAITH LAPIDUS: The Berenstain Bears are Mama Bear, Papa Bear and their three little bears. They live in a treehouse in -- wait, someone out there surely knows the answer. They live in a treehouse in Bear Country.
Eleven year-old Grace Deibert of Raleigh, North Carolina, remembers enjoying the books when she was about four or five.
GRACE DEIBERT: "They’re really easy to read and there’s always a lesson."
She says her favorite book in the series was "The Bear Detectives: The Case of the Missing Pumpkin."
GRACE DEIBERT: "They were missing this pumpkin and they had to go find it and they had funny poems and misconceptions and stuff.”
The lesson of the book, she says, was to think before you act.
After Stan Berenstain's death, Jan Berenstain continued to write books with their son, Michael. She was still illustrating until the day before she died on February twenty-fourth.
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