We Get Questions …
Over the years, a number of the same questions have been asked many times. The following answers from Mike Berenstain might help address some you have had … 1) Why don’t the Bears have regular names like Bob or Betty or Sally – why just Mama, Papa, and so on? I could answer […]
Fun Facts …
Did you know Dr. Seuss named The Berenstain Bears? Ted Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, was Jan and Stan’s editor for their first books. Stan and Jan explain in their biography Down a Sunny Dirt Road: “When Ted showed us our second book, the cover looked like it was supposed to. There was Papa […]
From Idea to Published Book
Using The Berenstain Bears Out West as an illustration, this is the process the Berenstains use to create each of their new books. 1 The first step to writing a book is to create the idea for the story. Initially Stan and Jan thought there would be just a few (5 or so) universal family issues […]