The Berenstain Bears Chapter Book: The Perfect Crime (Almost)
By Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain
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Bear Country School is celebrating its 200th birthday, and Brother and Sister Bear can't wait to have a good time. But before the parties start, the cubs stumble upon an antique document that may have been faked! Can the cubs get to the bottom of this historic whodunit?
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 1
Bear Country’s Two-Hundredth
Every spring, Bear Country’s citizens celebrated Bear Country Independence Day with a host of festivities. In Beartown, for instance, the day’s events would start in the town square, where Mayor Horace J. Honeypot would give a long, boring speech about freedom, democracy, and the Bear Country way. Then came the fun. Bears dressed as soldiers from the Revolutionary Bear War would march down Main Street, led by Mr. Honeycomb, Bear Country School’s principal, dressed as the nation’s first president, George Grizzington. Behind Mr. Honeycomb would be Mervyn Bullhorn
Grizzmeyer, Bear Country School’s vice principal, dressed as Bearjamin Franklin, Bear Country’s first secretary of state. And directly behind Mr. Grizzmeyer would come the Bear Country School Marching Band, playing patriotic songs from long ago. In the evening, folks would gather in the fields near Birder’s Woods to watch a spectacular fireworks show.
But one year everyone knew well ahead of time that things were going to be different on Independence Day. That’s because it wasn’t just any Independence Day that was coming up. It was extra special.
So what’s going to be so different about this Independence Day?
Sister Bear asked her brother as they walked down the main hall of Bear Country School on their way to class. It was just a few mornings before the big day.
Everything’ll be twice as big as usual,
said Brother. Mayor Honeypot’s speech will be twice as long and twice as boring. The parade will go down Elm Street as well as Main Street. And the fireworks display will be twice as spectacular.
"Just because it’s the whaddya-call-it? Centennial?"
No,
said Cousin Fred, who often read the dictionary for fun. "The centennial happened a hundred years ago, on Bear Country’s hundredth birthday. This Independence Day will be Bear Country’s two-hundredth birthday. That’s called a bicentennial."
Whatever,
said Sister. Anyway, it’ll be fun. I wish the celebration started today.
In a way, it does,
said Brother. Remember Mr. Dweebish, the history professor from Big Bear University?
Sure,
said Sister. I was in his class on Foundations of Democracy last year. He was great.
Well, he’s coming back to Bear Country School for three days of lectures about George Grizzington, in honor of the bicentennial,
said Brother. He’ll be here sometime this morning.
Cool!
said Sister. It’ll be great to see him again.
But Mr. Dweebish wasn’t the only one returning to Bear Country School that morning. Hurrying down the hall came Mr. Honeycomb, just back from a week-long principals’ conference.
Uh-oh,
said Fred. Honeycomb’s back. He always gets back from those conferences with some kind of a bee in his bonnet.
I wonder what’s buzzing this time,
said Sister.
Depends on what kind of conference it was,
said Brother. But we’ll know that soon enough.
Mr. Grizzmeyer had just emerged from his office and was heading down the hall toward the cubs. He and Mr. Honeycomb were within earshot of the cubs when their paths met. Well, Mr. H,
said Grizzmeyer, how was the efficiency conference?
Excellent,
said Mr. Honeycomb. "It made me resolve to honor the bicentennial by improving Bear Country School’s efficiency. We’ll start by eliminating all