![]() ![]() Since then, more than 300 Berenstain Bears books have been published and more than 260 million copies have been sold. ![]() The first story starring the bear family, The Big Honey Hunt, appeared in 1962. How they find the middle ground between being spendthrifts. Stan Berenstain and his wife, Jan, were already successful cartoonists for magazines and adult humor books when they began writing children’s books. There are now over 300 Berenstain Bears books. To earn coins for the Astro Bear video game, Brother and Sister Bear find ways to work for money. They continued to live outside of Philadelphia in the country. They both wrote the stories and created the pictures. Stan and Jan planned all of their books together. It was about a family of bears, who later became known as the "Berenstain Bears." Their first published children's book was called The Big Honey Hunt. After having their two sons Leo and Michael, the Berenstains decided to write some funny children's books that their children and other children could read and enjoy. When the war was over, they got married and began to work together as artists and writers, primarily drawing cartoons for popular magazines. During World War II, Stan was a medical assistant in the Army, and Jan worked in an airplane factory. They liked each other right away, and found out that the both enjoyed the same kinds of books, plays, music and art. They didn't know each other as children, but met later at school, at the Philadelphia College of Art. Stan and Jan Berenstain were both born in 1923 in Philadelphia. ![]()
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