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    The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book: The Great Ant Attack
    The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book: The Great Ant Attack
    The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book: The Great Ant Attack
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    The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book: The Great Ant Attack

    By Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain

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    The Bear Family thinks they're going out for a lovely afternoon picnic…but little do they know that they're in for a sharp surprise, including some bites to the behind! After a science experiment gone wrong unleashes a horde of stinging, breeding ants into Bear County, the Bears are frantic. Can the ants be stopped?

    The Berenstain Bears Chapter Books are the perfect next step for increasingly independent young readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 19, 2013
    ISBN9780062188915
    The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book: The Great Ant Attack
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    Stan Berenstain

    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.

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      The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book - Stan Berenstain

      Chapter One

      The Balance of Nature

      How about if we go to a movie tonight? There’s a terrific film playing at the Beartown multiplex, said Brother Bear one evening as the Bear family was having supper.

      We might just do that, said Papa. What’s this terrific film called?

      "It’s called Giant Insects from Outer Space," said Brother.

      Well, you can count me out, said Sister, who had a problem with insects.

      That’s okay, said Brother. You can take in another film. They always have a G-rated film for scaredy-bears.

      "All right, then, Mr. Smart-face. You can count me in!" said Sister.

      So the Bear family cleaned up the supper things and went to see Giant Insects from Outer Space. It was about these giant insects who came in spaceships to attack Earth. They were as big as school buses and looked like a cross between a cockroach and an ant, with a little rhinoceros beetle thrown in.

      It was a very scary movie!

      Sister was proud of getting through it (she did so by covering her eyes during the scariest parts). And she was proud of getting through the night without having a movie nightmare.

      But just outside of town, not more than a mile away from the Bear family’s tree house, a certain professor and his genius nephew were in their laboratory working on a secret experiment that just might turn into a real living nightmare.

      The next afternoon, the Bear family was sitting around the tree house living room relaxing. Brother was playing a hand-held monster game. Papa was reading the newspaper. Mama was looking through a garden magazine. And Sister was thinking about Giant Insects from Outer Space. As she sat there thinking about one of the scarier parts, a small spider let itself down on a strand of silk right in front of her face.

      YIPE! screamed Sister, sending the frightened spider scurrying back up the strand of silk.

      My goodness, said Papa. There’s no need to be afraid of spiders. Spiders have more reason to be afraid of you than you have to be afraid of them.

      I’m not afraid of them, said Sister. I just don’t like them.

      Papa went back to reading his newspaper and Sister went back to thinking about Giant Insects from Outer Space. After thinking awhile, she said, Papa?

      Yes, dear, said Papa.

      Why do there have to be insects?

      I’m not sure I understand your question, my dear, said Papa.

      Well, I just mean why do there have to be insects? They’re so buggy and icky. I mean like creepy spiders and itchy mosquitoes and those nasty green flies that bite. I mean, what good are they? Why do we have to have them?

      That’s a very interesting question, said Papa. And I suppose the best answer is that they’re all part of nature’s great scheme. All those icky, buggy creatures, all creatures and plants, in fact, and even the Earth itself, make up what’s called the balance of nature.

      That’s right, said Brother. "That’s

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