Jan Berenstain dead at 88

Jan Berenstain, the co-creator of the Berenstain Bears children’s books had died. She was 88.

I love the Berenstain Bears. RIP.

From WP:

Jan Berenstain, the children’s author who with her husband created the Berenstain Bears, whose winsome antics filled more than 300 picture books and helped guide millions of young readers through the vicissitudes of childhood, died Feb. 24 at a hospital near her home in Bucks County, Pa. She was 88.

She had suffered a stroke last week, her son Michael Berenstain said. Her husband, Stan Berenstain, died in 2005 at 82.

Few American youngsters finish elementary school without taking a walk “down a sunny dirt road deep in Bear Country” and getting to know Mrs. Berenstain’s treehouse-dwelling ursine family — hapless Papa in his overalls, wise Mama in her polka-dot dress and kerchief, and their three archetypal children.