Papa Bear heads for the honey tree in the sky

Stan Berenstain, who with his wife, Jan, created Berenstain Bears, died Saturday.
(See NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/books/30berenstain.html)

I read many an adventure of Mama, Papa, Brother and Sister Bear to my daughters.

I sometimes found the books a bit too preachy – and Mama was certainly not a modern model for my girls. Still, there are worse things to do with one’s talent that to write and illustrate upbeat children’s books.

Heck, he could have been a political speech writer, or an illustrator for Playboy.

So let’s all toast to the memory of Stan. Maybe dig out a copy of one of the Bear books, and read it for the memories.