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USA Today Nation Stan Berenstain, children's book author, dies at 82November 29, 2005 11:17 AM PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Stan Berenstain, who with his wife created the popular "Berenstain Bears" children's books, died on Saturday.
He was 82 and lived in Bucks County. He died in Pennsylvania on Saturday, said Audra Boltion, a spokeswoman for HarperCollins Children's Books in New York.
In more than 200 books, the Berenstain Bears, written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain, helped children for 40 years cope with trips to the dentist, eating junk food and cleaning their messy rooms.
The first Berenstain Bears book, "The Great Honey Hunt," was published in 1962. The couple developed the series with children's author Theodor Geisel — better known as Dr. Seuss, then head of children's publishing at Random House — with the goal of teaching children to read while entertaining them.
Despite changes in society in the last four decades, little has changed in "Bears Country."
"Kids still tell fibs and they mess up their rooms and they still throw tantrums in the supermarket," Stan Berenstain told The Associated Press in 2002. "Nobody gets shot. No violence. There are problems, but they're the kind of typical family problems everyone goes through."
Stan and Jan Berenstain began drawing together when they met at Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1941.
The two married soon after he got out of World War II-era Army service and began submitting cartoons to magazines. They became contributors to The Saturday Evening Post, McCalls and Collier's.
They got into the book business when an editor at a New York publishing house who enjoyed their magazine cartoons asked if they would like to do a book, according to their website.
Their sons Leo and Michael joined them, and many of the recent books are credited collectively to "The Berenstains."
The characters are the subject of their own public television program, DVDs and a Christmas musical. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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I loved those books. 
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HOLY CRAP! I loved those books too. I even had the Clean Up Your Room game. Shit, first Pat Morita and now this!??!?!
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Those books are some of the first books I read.
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I loved those books, so much that i don't think i'll make one of my traditional celebrity death jokes.
i just couldn't bear it.
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November 6th, 2012: Americas new Independence Day.
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I remember reading a Bears book or two during my childhood, but I had no idea they were so controversial, as the New York Times reports: In what might be seen as a tribute to the Berenstain Bears' ubiquity, critics for years have commented on the ursine clan's adherence to gender stereotypes, including Mama Bear's ever-so-brief fling at working outside the home, only to retreat to the cubs.
Papa Bear's bumbling incompetence, compared with Mama Bear's warm, wise effectiveness, has spawned particular ire.
"He is often wrong but never in doubt," as the Berenstains' Web site says.
Charles Krauthammer, in a 1989 column in The Washington Post, referred to "the postfeminist Papa Bear" as "the Alan Alda of Grizzlies, a wimp so passive and fumbling he makes Dagwood Bumstead look like Batman."
In 1998, Mary Jo Kochakian, a columnist for The Hartford Courant, wrote, "You have to wonder, doesn't Stan Berenstain have any self-respect?" 
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Krauthammer's picking on the Berenstain Bears?That ain't right.
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I vaguely remember the Berenstain Bears' old books from the library, and an Easter special. I also used to have a scratch and sniff book where they make a pizza.
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This is her fucking son's father. Who is this?
This is her fucking son.
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I actually had all the books when I was a kid. They were really fun.
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