The Berenstain Bears Save Christmas - Softcover

Jan Berenstain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060526726 ISBN 13: 9780060526726

Publisher: HarperFestival, 2005

Synopsis

When Santa decides to cancel Christmas due to the lack of holiday cheer and goodwill in Bear Country, the Berenstain Bears must find a way to change his mind, in a delightful picture book that captures the true meaning of Christmas. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Stan and Jan Berenstain were already successful cartoonists for magazines and adult humor books when they began writing children's books. The first story starring the bear family, The Big Honey Hunt, appeared in 1962. Since then, more than 250 Berenstain Bears books have been published, and more than 260 million copies have been sold. What began as an idea sparked by their young sons' interest in children's books has become over the years arguably the best-selling children's book series ever.

Since their inception, the Berenstain Bears stories have expanded to include picture books, beginning readers, and chapter books—even a hit TV show on PBS. Writing and illustrating the books has become a Berenstain family affair. Mike joined with his parents as a creative team in the late 1980s. The Bear family has expanded over the years as well. Sister Bear arrived in 1974, and baby Honey joined the family in 2000.

Since Stan's death at age eighty-two in 2005, Jan and Mike have continued to write and illustrate wonderful new adventures for Mama, Papa, Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear. They live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which looks a lot like Bear Country.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-3-From e-mails he receives from cubs, and by observing on his scanner machine, Santa Bear concludes that Christmas has been ruined: families are rude and competitive and the "-Christmas greedies were spreading through the land." He sets out, incognito, to search for the true spirit of the season. Luckily, Mama Bear has already put the brakes on, and the Bear family has reformed when disguised Santa arrives. Once again, a moral imperative is pounded home in the Berenstains' familiar, formulaic way. Problems of the overlong text, the meter that doesn't scan, and the canned illustrations will hardly matter to the Bears' many fans.-S. P.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperFestival
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060526726
• ISBN 13: 9780060526726
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Mike Berenstain