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FREE THE BERENSTAIN BEARS AND DOUBLE DARE PDF Stan Berenstain,Jan Berenstain | 32 pages | 23 Mar 1990 | Random House USA Inc | 9780394897486 | English | New York, United States The Berenstain Bears: Trouble with Money/Double Dare - Ep.6 - video dailymotion The Berenstain Bears is a children's literature franchise created by Stan and Jan Berenstain and continued by their son, Mike Berenstainwho assumed partial authorship inand full authorship in following Jan's death. The books feature a family of anthropomorphic grizzly bears who generally learn a moral or safety -related lesson in the course of each story. Since the debut of the first Berenstain Bears book, The Big Honey Huntthe series has grown to over titles, which have sold approximately million copies in 23 languages. While enjoying decades of popularity and receiving numerous awards, the series has been criticized for its perceived saccharine tone and formulaic storytelling. Stanley Berenstain and Janice Grant met inon their first day of drawing class The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Artwhere they formed an immediate bond. In the early s, the Berenstains sought to enter the field of writing for young children. Seusswho had found phenomenal success in with The Cat in the Hat and was now editor of a Random House series called " Beginner Books ". The book was finally published in under the title The Big Honey Huntwith no plans to revisit the bears in a sequel. Sendak 's got some kind of bear. Geisel was also responsible for adding the name "Berenstain Bears" to the covers of succeeding books. Over the next several decades, Stan and Jan collaborated on hundreds of books from their home studio outside Philadelphia. They also worked together on the illustrations. Their sons Leo and Mike also entered the family business after making their own forays into children's publishing as an author and illustrator, respectively. The Berenstain Bears, who reside "in a big treehouse down a sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country," consists of Papa Bear, an oafish, bumbling carpenter; wise Mama Bear, a housewife and perfectionist ; and their children, Brother Bear originally Small Bearand later additions Sister Bear and Honey Bear. Stories about the bears generally follow a basic formula, so described by the Berenstains: "Papa sets out to instruct Small Bear in some aspect of the art of living and ends up badly the The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare for wear, with Small Bear expressing his appreciation for the fine lesson Papa has taught him. They turn to Papa, who offers a "solution" that only makes the problem—or the kids' fears about it—even worse. Enter Mama, who eventually sets everyone straight. The litany of issues confronted by the Berenstain Bears over their fifty years of publication include bullyingmessiness, poor sportsmanshipvisiting the dentistonline safety, and childhood obesityamong countless others. Nobody gets shot. No violence. There are problems, but they're the kind of typical family problems everyone goes through. The Berenstain Bears series had sold over million copies by Of their books, 35 are in the Publishers Weekly top titles of all time, and 15 are in the top children's paperbacks. Critics of the series have called it "syrupy", "unsatisfying", "infuriatingly formulaic", "hokey", "abominable", and "little more than stern lectures The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare up The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare children's stories. In a editorial titled "Drown the Berenstain Bears", The Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer lamented the popularity of the books, writing that "it is not just the smugness and complacency of the stories that is so irritating," but the bears themselves, particularly "the post-feminist Papa Bear, the Alan Alda of grizzlies, a wimp so passive and fumbling he makes Dagwood Bumstead look like Batman. The reason is, of course, that kids love them. My boy, 4, cannot get enough of these bears. Upon the death of Stan Berenstain inThe Washington Post published an "Appreciation" piece which many Post readers found surprisingly unappreciative in its tone. Written by Paul Farhi, who had previously rebuked the Berenstain Bears as the most popular example of a lamentable and misguided " self-help " genre aimed at children, [2] the piece revived his earlier sentiments:. The larger questions about the popularity of the Berenstain Bears are more troubling: Is this what we really want from children's books in the first place, a world filled with scares and neuroses and problems to be toughed out and solved? And if it is, aren't the Berenstain Bears simply teaching to the test, providing a lesson to be spit back, rather than one lived and understood and embraced? Where is the warmth, the spirit of discovery and imagination in Bear Country? Stan Berenstain taught a million lessons to children, but subtlety and plain old joy weren't among them. Subsequent letters from readers condemned Farhi for expressing such harshness toward the recently deceased; one wrote, "In the name of fairness, please be sure to allow the Berenstain family the opportunity to someday retort in Farhi's obituary. Slate ' s Hanna Rosin revived Krauthammer's complaints, drawing criticism for writing of Jan Berenstain's death, "As any right-thinking mother will agree, good riddance. Among my set of mothers the series is known mostly as the one that makes us dread the bedtime routine the most. The Berenstain Bears series has been The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare the Ludington Award from the Educational Paperback Association for their contribution to children's literature, the Drexel Citation from Drexel University, several Philadelphia Literary Children's Roundtable Honors, and many other state reading The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare awards. Since the Berenstain Bears' creation, the characters have been widely licensed for a broad array of products. The franchise exploded in size in the s, when King Features began aggressively promoting the Bears to marketers amidst a surge The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare popularity following a series of animated television specials. The Berenstain Bears first appeared The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare television in five animated specials on NBCairing The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare follows: [7] [9] [31]. Most The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare their roles in the subsequent specials. The series was produced by the Canadian company Nelvana and consisted of 40 minute episodes adapted from the books and also a few new stories as well, similar to the production. Even though the series is not a remake but a continuation of the episodes, some characters' personalities changed while other characters no longer appeared. However, new characters appeared. The original specials and TV series have a rustic design and interaction with other forest animals, while the Nelvana series completely embraced rural life with slower timing. Additionally, as a Canadian production, due to Canadian laws requiring Nelvana to employ only Canadian writers and artists, the Berenstains' involvement in the program was limited; They sought to exert their influence on some details, according to Stan. And we try to keep complete, total banality out of the stories. This issue also occurred in previous animated series and specials. Only a limited amount of polka dots was allowed in the five specials. The translated series was a collaboration of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and the nonprofit Lakota Language Consortium, with Mike Berenstain and Nelvana waiving all licensing fees for the venture. The Berenstain Bears is the first animated series to be translated into a Native American language in the United States. Several computer games and other software adaptations of the Berenstain Bears books have been released, including the following:. Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusettsand timed to coincide with the release of the Berenstains' memoir Down A Sunny Dirt Roadthe exhibit provided a retrospective of the couple's artwork, influences and techniques, as well as the evolution of their famous bears. The exhibit was subsequently hosted by the Rockwell Museum in The Youth Museum Exhibit Collaborative and the Berenstains themselves assisted in the exhibit's development. Bearson's Dentist Office. Originally scheduled to run from June to September 4, the show was extended through October and subsequently moved to the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre for an open-ended run. A planned Berenstain Bears feature film adaptation was announced in by Walden Media and director Shawn Levywhose company 21 Laps would produce the film. The project was envisioned as a comedy with both live action The Berenstain Bears and Double Dare computer-animated elements, and an original storyline that would combine details from several Berenstain books. Comparing it to the film ElfLevy said he thought the Berenstain Bears film would be "witty but never sarcastic. This helps us begin having a more honest conversation about how each of us has a role to prevent the abuse and neglect of our nation's children. The Berenstains were approached by former U. Surgeon General C. Everett Koopwho asked them to write an anti- smoking book for children. They declined, but the idea did lead to a book about peer pressureThe Berenstain Bears and the Double Dare. Beginning ina number of Berenstain Bears titles of a specifically religious nature have been released by Mike Berenstain. The titles are part of a series called Living Lights and are published by the Christian company Zondervan and HarperCollins. In Augustthe publishers of the series faced a controversy regarding the fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A 's plan to distribute titles in the series as part of a kids' meal promotion, with gay rights advocates urging the publishers to pull out of the promotion, due to the Chick-fil-A founder's controversial statements regarding same-sex marriage.

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