A Posthumous Love Letter To Jan Berenstain


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Jan Berenstain, who created The Berenstain Bears with her husband Stan, suffered a stroke and passed away on Friday. She was 88 years old. I bet I don’t know one human adult or child who wouldn’t instantly recognize the smile on Big Brown Bear’s face, or the upward swoop of Beautiful Baboon’s nose in the [...]

Dear Hollywood, Back Off of My Berenstain Bears. Please?


Berenstain-bears-movie It seems many of Hollywood’s recent movie hits are remakes and/or ripped from our childhoods, which I know is nothing new, but I kinda want them to back off my beloved memories a wee bit, yanno?
Confession: I wish Where The Wild Things Are had remained a classic book. (Which yes, it still is, but the movie is so scary I won’t take my 5 year old to see it. It really should have remained a book where a child could fill in the blanks with her imagination. I never imagined any chicken’s arm getting ripped off, did you?)
Now I’m hearing rumblings about bring the beloved Berenstain Bears to the big screen. My Berenstain Bears. *sob*
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