Berenstain Bears’ Literary Agent Passes Away at 102
My family’s literary agent of sixty years, Sterling Lord, passed away at the age of 102. Sterling sold the very first Berenstain Bears book, The Big Honey Hunt, to Ted (Dr. Seuss) Geisel at Random House in 1961.
The Berenstain Bears’ 60th Anniversary
This month marks the 60th birthday of the first Bear book from Stan & Jan Berenstain, The Big Honey Hunt! Since 1962, Stan, Jan, and later Mike Berenstain would go on to publish over 500 books about the Bear family, translated into 20 different languages, with over 350 million books sold to date. The Berenstain Bears […]
Adventures at the Beach with the Berenstain Bears
To get ready for the summer, we have pulled together a reading list of our favorite Berenstain Bear books that take place at the Beach!
Books of the Decade
2019 is coming to a close and to celebrate we picked out some of our favorite stories from the past ten years! Check out our reading list to re-discover some old favorites or find new classics for your cubs’ library. We hope you have a great New Years, and are looking forward to a […]
The Making of the Berenstain Bears Meet Big Paw
As we round the corner towards the Holiday season, here at Berenstain Studios we thought we would revisit our second Holiday TV Special, The Berenstain Bears Meet Big Paw! Nearly 30 years ago on November 20, 1980 The Special aired on NBC and has since found audiences on VHS tape, and now on our YouTube […]
Q&A with The Berenstain Bears
Here at Berenstain Studios we get a lot of questions from readers through fan mail, our social media pages, and in person. We asked our followers on social media what their biggest questions about the Bear Family were and we’ve picked a few to address here on the blog. Check out our the Questions and […]
Drawing Inspiration for the Berenstain Bears
There have been over 350 Berenstain bear books published, and at Berenstain studios we often get the question “How do you keep coming up with book ideas?” Sometimes the answer is re-cycling! Before Stan & Jan created the Bear books, they worked for years creating “Sister” and “All in the Family” cartoons for Colliers, Good […]
55 Years of the Berenstain Bears and the making of “The Big Honey Hunt”
September 28 Marks the 55th anniversary of the first Berenstain Bears book, The Big Honey Hunt published in 1962. Below is one of the first sketches of the Bears, found in the archives 5 years ago while getting ready for our 50th Anniversary. The Bear family has gone through lots of changes since 1962, but […]
Digitizing the Berenstain Bears
Many of our younger fans are familiar with our Television Series on PBS, but did you know the Bears have been on the small screen since 1979? Here at Berenstain Studios we recently received all of our tape reels, beta-max tapes, DVDs, and VHS tapes of our TV Specials, and TV episodes from our 1985 […]
Inside the Bear Family Tree house
Have you ever wondered how a family of 5 bears fits into one little tree? While getting ready to illustrate our upcoming book, The Berenstain Bears Show & Tell we wondered the same thing! We’ll go back through the years to the Bear’s home how it first appeared, and how it has evolved to its […]