Those intended for a younger audience included Busytown, The Berenstain Bears, and various others which usually had vivid cartoon-like settings accompanied by music and logic puzzles.

In 1998, UPN went a different way with its children's program block by airing reruns of the syndicated Sweet Valley High, The Berenstain Bears and a new series, Breaker High on weekdays and weekends aiming the programs at teenagers.

The film was, in part, the inspiration for the father and son in the Berenstain Bears books.

* Brother, a character from the TV series Berenstain Bears

* Berenstain Bears

The Berenstain Bears: Papa ( top left ), Mama ( top right ), Brother ( bottom left ), Sister ( bottom right ), Honey ( center )

The Berenstain Bears is a series of children's books created by Stan and Jan Berenstain.

Since the 1962 debut of the first Berenstain Bears book, The Big Honey Hunt, the series has grown to over 300 titles, which have sold approximately 260 million copies in 23 languages.

The Berenstain Bears franchise has also expanded well beyond the books, encompassing two television series and a wide variety of other products and licenses.

Geisel was also responsible for adding the name " Berenstain Bears " to the covers of succeeding books.

In the 1990s, the men worked on the Berenstain Bears " Big Chapter Book " series ( published under the names Stan and Jan Berenstain ).

Following Stan's passing away from lymphoma in 2005, Michael collaborated with his mother on writing and illustrating Berenstain Bears installments, while Leo has been involved with the business side of the franchise.

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 Bear ), and later additions Sister Bear and Honey Bear.

Sister Bear was introduced in the 1974 book The Berenstain Bears ' New Baby in response to requests from female readers.

Honey Bear's imminent arrival was announced in early 2000 in The Birds, the Bees, and the Berenstain Bears, along with a reader contest to name the new bear ; her birth was featured later that year in The Berenstain Bears and Baby Makes Five.

The litany of issues confronted by the Berenstain Bears over their fifty years of publication include bullying, messiness, poor sportsmanship, visiting the dentist, online safety, and childhood obesity, among countless others.

In a 1989 editorial titled " Drown the Berenstain Bears ", 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 New York Times Janet Maslin expressed similar sentiments in a 1988 review of the Berenstain Bears ' video series, calling the bears " a thoroughly disagreeable bunch.

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, the 2005 piece revived his earlier sentiments:

Creators in the Beginner Book series included Stan and Jan Berenstain, P. D. Eastman, Roy McKie, and Helen Palmer ( Mr. Geisel's wife ).

Creators in the Beginner Book series were Stan and Jan Berenstain, P. D. Eastman, Roy McKie, and Helen Palmer Geisel ( Seuss ' wife ).

From top: the 1979 special The Berenstain Bears ' Christmas Tree ; The Berenstain Bears ( 1985 TV series ) | the 1985 series ; The Berenstain Bears ( 2003 TV series ) | the 2003 series.

From 1985 through 1987, an animated series titled The Berenstain Bears aired as part of CBS ' Saturday morning cartoon block.

In television the song has cropped up in episodes and programs that include The Berenstain Bears and the Talent Show ; The Berenstain Bears and the Female Fullback ; Rawhide ; Garfield and Friends ; The Care Bears ; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ; Saved by the Bell ; All That ; Kenan & Kel ; Drake and Josh, SpongeBob SquarePants, That's So Raven ; Rugrats ; Cat in the Hat ; Peter Gunn ; Little House on the Prairie ; Our Gang ; The Twilight Zone ; Wind at My Back ; Leonardo and Shining Time Station.

A children's version of this text, targeted at a third-grade reading level and featuring the characters of the Berenstain Bears, has been published by Zondervan and HarperCollins.

In the articles with bears can see a Snuggle bottle, Gummi bears bag, Teddy Grahams box, Winnie the Pooh, Super sugar crisp box and in Maggie's books she has The Bear Went Over the Mountain, The Berenstain Bears and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

She has been a voice actor in My Pet Monster, Birdz, Committed, Little Bear, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, The Busy World of Richard Scarry, Bob and Margaret, Rupert, Babar, Freaky Stories, Atomic Betty, The Care Bears, Roboroach, The Berenstain Bears, Free Willy, Knights of Zodiac, Anatole, Bad Dog, Monster by Mistake, The Neverending Story, Ned's Newt, Pippi Longstocking, Storm Hawks, Redwall, Bob & Doug, For Better or For Worse and Babar and the Adventures of Badou.

Since the Berenstain Bears ' creation, the characters have been widely licensed for a broad array of products.

As of 1983, the Berenstain Bears had been licensed to approximately 40 companies for more than 150 types of products, with projected annual sales of $ 50 million.

Several computer games and other software adaptations of the Berenstain Bears books have been released, including the following:

Beginning in 2008, a number of Berenstain Bears titles of a specifically religious nature have been released by Mike Berenstain.

* The Berenstain Bears and the Real Easter Egg ( also called The Berenstain Bears ' Easter Surprise ) ( April 14, 1981 )

* The Berenstain Bears ' Valentine Special ( also called The Berenstain Bears ' Comic Valentine ) ( February 13, 1982 )

* The Berenstain Bears ' Littlest Leaguer ( also called The Berenstain Bears Play Ball ) ( May 6, 1983 )

A second TV series, also called The Berenstain Bears, debuted on PBS in 2003.

In the 1990s and 2000s, many Cedar Fair theme parks, including Cedar Point, featured kids ' play areas called " Berenstain Bear Country " that were themed to the franchise.

In 2005, the Lied Discovery Children's Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, opened " Growing Up With the Berenstain Bears ", an exhibition offering children the chance to experience life-size versions of Bear Country landmarks.

" ( 1987 – 97 ), then " Berenstain Bear Country " ( 1997 – 2000 ), and " Camp Snoopy " ( 2001 – 2010 ), and is currently " Planet Snoopy ", new to the 2011 season.

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?

* 2005 – Stan Berenstain, American children's author ( b. 1923 )

* November 26-Stan Berenstain, American children's writer and illustrator ( born 1923 )