With deep sadness we read this week of the death of Jan Berenstain. 50 years ago Jan and her late husband, Stan, gave us their first book, The Big Honey Hunt, and from that book forward, many of us have often turned to the Bear family with whom our children love to share fun and mischief, to relate strange and scary “new” things like the arrival of a new sibling, going to school, visiting the dentist and more. My own children who are seven years apart both loved The Berenstain Bears Go to School, and each wore out a copy of that title. I will always envision the bears headed up the hill to school with parents waving when I hear of the Berenstain bears. Reading Is Fundamental is honored the Berenstain family has designated RIF to accept memorials to Jan Berenstain. You may access the memorial site at www.rif.org/berenstain.
Carol Hampton Rasco