European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 03, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Berenstain bears became Success by being human Bill Stieg associated press a a it was Ted of incl who suggested that Stan icy and Janice Berenstain shorten their names on their children a books. Geisel knows All about pen names a his a. V. A is or. Seuss. A a a a a. A a a a a a a a a a Quot it wa.vl962, and cartoonists Stan and Jan Berenstain had written a children Book for random House about a family of boars. Geisel their editor asked what they planned to do next. They said they were considering a notifier car Book. A Sohi done to do Geisel said. Quot there a million bears out there.�?T�?T1 lie Beien Stams followed his advice aban i loved the beats did a Book about penguins and submitted it to Geisel who was changing his mind. A listen Quot Geisel told them a the salesmen Are. Telling me that just Bear Hook is Sejong Well How about doing another Bear Book a. 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A a a i papa brother and sister Bear. I he bears .1 Al Oles and live in a treehouse that has All comforts of Home. Papa has the bumbling per a. Ability of a sitcom dad mama is All Homey and the cubs arc like kids cd Crew Here in the course of the stones the bears encounter a wide variety of problems trips to the dentist doctor school and baby Sitter plus the terrors of. Bad dreams cleaning your room eating healthy food watching too much to and going to Camp. All prob jeans. No matter How great Are solved before the Book ends in a Way that a helps kids understand their problems a including ones they May be getting into for the first time Jan said. The Beien Stams both 67, met m Art school in Philadelphia and had a successful career As car to omits with 20 Colliery a Magazine covers and a regular cartoon a a it Sah in the family in Mccall a and Good housekeeping that ran for 35 years. They gave that up last year because the bears occupy most of their time. The Berenstain work out of their spacious Home much larger than the treehouse but in a Rural setting not unlike Bear country outside new Hope a. They started doing children books because their two boys liked or. Seuss but they found no Tunny children books about families. A the Berenstain say their ideas come from everyday experience. A a we have grandchildren we re out in the Community going to the supermarket a Stan said. woman at the Post office tells me what happened to her kid the waitress in the the bears predictable amiability seems to be just what Young readers want. A they Tell us 111 letters they like them because they re funny a Jan said. A and there a always something that reminds them of something that happened to them in exactly the same a i he mail became a guidance for us. Kids a would Tell you what they like a Stan said. And suggestions come in the mail. Even their grow 11 kids help. A the Berenstain bears go to i As \ Egas and lot of Money that the Stan said. Instead they will continue to do the simple family stories about three a year nothing too outlandish no mutant turtles or _ Supei genres Stan said real kids a he said a live m a Charles Johnson tale of slaves sea is capturing honors Charles Johnson author philosopher and scholar wanted to write a sea Story. He thought of Quot moby Dick and Quot treasure Island a of men sailing like Fate across the Atlantic of transit Over the widest watery spaces. He brushed up on religion and 19th Century history. Johnson also has a Friend who builds scale Model ships one of the few still doing it in t his Roun a try. When the author told him about a ship called the Republic to be featured in his novel his Friend building him a Model. Johnson stressed one detail the ship is a slave ship. He called the Novus Middle it won the National Book award Only the fourth time in 40 years a Black author has received the prize and is among the nominees for the National Book critics Circle awards. A a every culture has sea stories but it Hasni to been worked into african american literature a said Johnson an English teacher at the University of Washington. A there Are a couple of slave narratives that Are about the seas but there Isnit any fiction. I look upon the slave Trade As pretty much in travelled a a Quot Middle passage piles myths upon myths a Rich mix of Folk tales and adventures at sea the Wise observations of an african tribe and the Salty talk of ancient mariners. A the politics of the Rich and poor wealth and the american electorate in the Reagan aftermath and Shelby Steele the Content of our character a new vision of race in Arneri Ca. The critics Circle awards Are Given in five categories for books published last year. Winners will be announced feb. 16. The nominees Are. A fiction Johnson Middle passage John Updike Rabbit at rest sue Millers a family pictures Tim of Briens a the things they carried and Wallace Stegner collected _ a non fiction Mike Davis a City of Quartz excavating the future in los Angeles Alma Guil Lermo Prietos a Samba the Lale . Hardison disappearing through the culture and technology in the 20th cent rvs of Kevin Phillip a a biographies and autobiographies Robert carols a Means of ascent John Espey a strop drink Strong language Patricia of Toole the five of hearts an intimate portrait of Henry Adams and his friends 1880-1918�?� Rii Ard Rhodes a a Hole in the world and . Watkins a righteous Pilgrim the life and tin of Harold Ickes a a criticism Stapley Crouch for a notes of a hanging judge essays and reviews 1979-198s Arthur Danton encounters and reflections i in the historical present Irvine Howe selected writings 1950-1990�?� Camille Paglia a sexual personae Art and decadence from n Fertitia to Emily Dickinson and Wilfrid Sheedy a essays in a poetry Frank Bidart in the Western night Amy Gerstler bitter Angels John Haines a new poems 1980-1988�?� Anthony a ech a a he transparent Many and Charles Simic the Book of gods and associated Pra Spage 8 c sunday february 3, 1.991
