Berenstain Bears' Valentine Party

Join the Berenstain Bears on their latest lift-the-flap adventure!

It is Valentine's Day at the Bear Country School, and Teacher Jane's class is having a party! Join Sister Bear and her friends as they share lots of special messages. Who will get the most valentines?

Join the Berenstain Bears on their latest lift-the-flap adventure!

It is Valentine's Day at the Bear Country School, and Teacher Jane's class is having a party! Join Sister Bear and her friends as they share lots of special messages. Who will get the most valentines?

Children's Literature

Everyone's favorite family of bears is back in a Valentine's Day themed installment of the "Berenstain Bears" series. Sister Bear's class is celebrating Valentine's Day, and her teacher places surprise Valentine's messages around the room before the children exchange Valentines with each other, some of them nicer than others. Each Valentine is hidden behind a flap for readers to lift in order to reveal the message, an interactive touch to a very simple story. Though many of the "Berenstain Bears" books are focused upon a moral or specific topic for children to learn about or reflect upon, the point of this particular story is merely to share the fun messages inside each Valentine card and to please readers with the lift-the-flap novelty. A simple but limited story that is good for reading on Valentine's Day in the classroom or to give as a Valentine's gift as an creative alternative to cards and candy. Reviewer: Carly Reagan

Stan and Jan Berenstain were already successful cartoonists for magazines and adult humor books when they began writing children's books. The first story starring the bear family, The Big Honey Hunt, appeared in 1962. Since then, more than 250 Berenstain Bears books have been published, and more than 260 million copies have been sold. What began as an idea sparked by their young sons' interest in children's books has become over the years arguably the best-selling children's book series ever.

Since their inception, the Berenstain Bears stories have expanded to include picture books, beginning readers, and chapter books—even a hit TV show on PBS. Writing and illustrating the books has become a Berenstain family affair. Mike joined with his parents as a creative team in the late 1980s. The Bear family has expanded over the years as well. Sister Bear arrived in 1974, and baby Honey joined the family in 2000.

Since Stan's death at age eighty-two in 2005, Jan and Mike have continued to write and illustrate wonderful new adventures for Mama, Papa, Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear. They live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which looks a lot like Bear Country.