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		THE BEAR MUSEUM The Berenstains Before the Bears: Sister This is a regular series of features at the Bear Museum which focus on the early career of Stan and Jan, before they created the Bear family in 1962. These works are part of a traveling exhibition, Child’s Play on the Crabgrass Frontier, organized by The Strong Museum of Play. Accompanying the exhibition is a lavishly illustrated book, Child's Play: The Berenstain Baby Boom, 1946-1964: Cartoon Art by Stan and Jan Berenstain. Once Stan and Jan discovered family as their signature subject, they explored the richness of a recurring character they simply named “Sister,” “a tomboyish, wise-cracking little girl,” writes Mike Berenstain, “…a cartoon Every Girl everyone could connect with.” Her antics were based in part on Mike’s brother, Leo, whose gender was changed to protect the not-so-innocent. Stan and Jan even adapted Sister into a daily comic strip in 1953 and 1954. A daily comic strip was considered the “ultimate success story” in cartooning. But “after about 700 drawings, Stan and Jan decided the newspaper business was not for them,” according to Mike, and the duo returned to gag cartoons and humor books. Top: Sister Published in Colliers, April 29, 1950 See other exhibitions in the Bear Museum: See The History of the Berenstain Bears' Tree House. See The Big Honey Hunt. See Inside Outside Upside Down. See The Bike Lesson. See Down A Sunny Dirt Road. See First First Time Books. See The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers. See The Berenstain Bears Big Book of Science and Nature See He Bear, She Bear See Baby Makes Five See The Berenstains Before the Bears See The Berenstains Gag Cartoons See The Berenstain's Apotheosis of Childhood See The Berenstains Before the Bears: It's All in the Family

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The Berenstains Before the Bears: Sister