![]() ![]() ![]() On creating the bear characters, "Stan also observed that female bears are "terrifyingly good mothers" while the males are "lousy fathers."" Huh! So maybe this dynamic between Mama and Papa is totally baked in. ![]() I also went down the rabbit hole and read some history. I also noted that Miranda looks a bit androgynous, a nice change from the "female-presenting bears are known by their house dresses and pink ruffles" aesthetic in the books I've read. Still, I appreciated that new "bad influence" friend Miranda wasn't written off as "bad" in the end, and she and Sister got to clarify that they each had a role in making some bad choices. Though Bear Country has always felt to me like a place out of time (or perhaps just a place permanently in the 1980s), in this book there is a strange mix of cell phones + landlines with handset receivers. The text feels especially long, full of painful bear puns like "Bearbies" (Barbies). The illustrations look like the bears, but lack a certain polish. ![]() This title is from 2008, after Stan died and Mike Berenstain was working with his mother on writing and illustrating the books. ![]()
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