![]() ![]() ![]() When he was growing up, he and his parents, Harry and Rose, lived above an Army-Navy surplus store. 29, 1923, into what he described as a gritty, lower-class Philadelphia family that had been “pogrommed out of the Ukraine.” He helped define children’s publishing as we know it today,” Kate Jackson, editor in chief of HarperCollins Children’s Books, said in a statement. “Stan Berenstain was a man of great humor and a generous spirit. The moves were credited with making the books easy to market, and nearly 300 million copies have been sold. Without consulting them, Geisel shortened the authors’ names from Stanley and Janice to Stan and Jan to make them rhyme and slapped the phrase “Berenstain Bears” on succeeding covers. When Geisel, a fan of cinematic plotting, asked the couple to characterize the bears as familiar actors, they compared Papa Bear to Wallace Beery and Brother Bear to Jackie Cooper in the weepy 1931 boxing film “The Champ.” Geisel looked at the slim manuscript that would become “The Big Honey Hunt” two years later and said, “This is going to be a great book,” Berenstain told The Times in 1995. ![]() Seuss, taking with them what they called “a bad imitation of Ogden Nash.” The Berenstains sought out the man better known as Dr. ![]()
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