Stan Berenstain Dies.
Sphere: Related ContentStan Berenstain, who with his wife, Jan, created the classic children’s books about the Berenstain Bears, has died at the age of 82.
Berenstain, who lived with his wife in Bucks County, Pa., died Saturday, according to a spokesperson for HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Stan and Jan Berenstain, creators of the prolific Berenstain Bears series, at home in 2002. Stan Berenstain, 82, died Saturday. (AP Photo/Dan Loh)
Born in Philadelphia in 1923, Stanley Berenstain met his wife while they were students at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art.
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The couple eventually moved into book illustration and, in the early 1960s, began to develop their Berenstain Bears series under editor Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, who was head of children’s publishing at Random House at the time.