BEARS ON WHEELS : A Bright and Early Counting Book (Bright & Early Books for Beginning Beginners)

Stan and Jane Berenstain (Authors & Illustrators)

ISBN 10: 039480967X / ISBN 13: 9780394809670

Published by Random House, 1969

About this Item

Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/small speck to front cover verso & first title page. Illustrated boards/Fine. Authored & illustrated by husband & wife team, Stanley Melvin Berenstain (1923 ? 2005) and Janice Marian Berenstain (1923 ? 2012) best known for their children's series The Berenstain Bears. Published in the Dr. Seuss Bright & Early Books series, this is a most delightful counting book. Little ones learn to count unknowingly with antics of acrobatic bears --- beginning w/one bear on a unicycle and ending with 21 bears and 16 wheels flying through the air!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BEARS ON WHEELS : A Bright and Early Counting Book (Bright & Early Books for Beginning Beginners)
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039480967X
• ISBN 13: 9780394809670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Stan and Jane Berenstain (Authors & Illustrators)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

As the gradually increasing number of bears on wheels adds up through all kinds of combinations and permutations, beginning readers are offered a unique counting book, courtesy of the Berenstains.

About the Author

Stan and Jan Berenstain were both born in 1923 in Philadelphia.  They didn't know each other as children, but met later at school, at the Philadelphia College of Art.  They liked each other right away, and found out that the both enjoyed the same kinds of books, plays, music and art.  During World War II, Stan was a medical assistant in the Army, and Jan worked in an airplane factory.  When the war was over, they got married and began to work together as artists and writers, primarily drawing cartoons for popular magazines.  After having their two sons Leo and Michael, the Berenstains decided to write some funny children's books that their children and other children could read and enjoy.  Their first published children's book was called The Big Honey Hunt .  It was about a family of bears, who later became known as the "Berenstain Bears".  

Over 50 children's books later, Stan and Jan still plan all of their books together -- both write the stories, and both write the pictures.  They live outside of Philadelphia in the country.