Sen. Toomey memorializes the Berenstain Bears

by Alicia M. Cohn - 02/27/12 9:42 PM ET

{mosads}Berenstain died last Friday as the result of a stroke that happened Thursday, according to The Associated Press. She was 88.

Berenstain and her husband, Stan, co-created and wrote the Berenstain Bears, a series of children’s books based on a family of bears, starting with the first book, “The Big Honey Hunt,” in 1962. The Berenstain Bears characters were inspired by Berenstain’s own children and, later, grandchildren. The books later produced a TV series.

Stan Berenstain died in 2005. Mike Berenstain, one of the couple’s two sons, told the AP that he plans to continue writing and illustrating books based on the characters.

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