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manji
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/arts/jan-berenstain-dies-at-88-created-berenstain-bears.html?_r=1&hpw

Good bye and farewell!
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Those two really helped some good memories for (I would imagine) a great many of us. My father read those books with me and my siblings, and then we read them to each other.

Just a couple of nites ago, my three year old asked me for a story, and for the first time I chose to read him a Berenstein Bears book, and he couldn't get enough. We started with "Weekend at Grandma's", moving on to "Trouble With Money", and finally "The In Crowd".

He loves them, and I will certainly be fostering that as long as he enjoys them.

For me though "No Girls Allowed" is still the favorite. That was one sweet clubhouse [Razz]
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The Berenstain Bears were a huge part of my learning to read, and I'm sure they affected my development of a system of ethics.

I've always felt gratitude those books exist, they are fantastic reading for small children.
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[Frown]
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That is a loss. I now need to reread all of them. Every one.
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my fav was the one in the haunted tree or something
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The Spooky Old Tree?

A classic!

Ah, wow, this takes me back. How sad. [Frown]
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My favorite is still "Inside, Outside, Upside Down" just because I was so delighted with the rhythm of it.
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Many new books are co-written with her son, and are marketed to the Christian Bookstore set, FYI (her son is a born-again Christian).

That said, the ones I had growing up were great.
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I wonder how many of these books I read as a kid! I was always pretty jealous of that awesome treehouse.
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quote:
Originally posted by Samprimary:
I was always pretty jealous of that awesome treehouse.
The treehouse I had (before we moved) was pretty cool, but not nearly as cool as theirs.

OTOH, I could get AWAY from my parents in mine. [Big Grin]
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