Berenstain Bears’ Stan Berenstain, 82
Posted: Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 7:21 am
Stan Berenstain, who with his wife, Jan, created the classic children’s books about the Berenstain Bears, has died at the age of 82.
Berenstain, who lived with his wife in Bucks County, Pa., died Saturday, according to a spokesperson for HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Born in Philadelphia in 1923, Stanley Berenstain met his wife while they were students at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art.
They began drawing together and, after his stint with the U.S. army during the Second World War, launched a cartooning career that included contributions to publications like The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s. Together, they created the ongoing illustrated feature It’s All in the Family, which appeared in McCall’s and, later, Good Housekeeping magazine.
The couple eventually moved into book illustration and, in the early 1960s, began to develop their Berenstain Bears series under editor Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, who was head of children’s publishing at Random House at the time. … Read full obituary
