第一次接觸 Stan Berenstain 和
Jan Berenstain 的作品就是 Berenstain 小熊系列,原先並沒有太注意這套系列書的作者,只覺得這套小熊書的有趣。這套小熊書算是相當美式的繪本,文字不難,很生活化,內容也很有趣。畫風談不上精緻,就是一般系列書的水準。單單是這樣,似乎引不起人太多的興趣。系列書吧!就是這樣囉!
可是深刻認識Berenstain這對作家,會讓人對他們的作品產生更深入的興趣。好比說,這兩個人究竟是什麼關係呢?Stan和Jan都是費城人,可是之前並不認識,一直到他們在1941 年成為Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art 的同學時才相識,五年後,他們結為夫妻。他們育有二子,Leo和Mike。
即使是這樣似乎也沒啥希奇,夫妻檔的繪本作家比比皆是,單是如此,也引不起特別的眼光。可是如果我們仔細檢視Berenstain夫妻的作品,他們除了創作了詼諧有趣的Berenstain Bears以外,還創作了許多其他不同質素的作品。翻開他們的作品清單,我們可以發現,Berenstain 夫婦對於家庭以及兒童的關懷層面,除了幽默和詼諧以外,更想呈現的是那些屬於「家庭」和「教養」的深層問題。透過這樣的認識,再重新看Berenstain小熊,會有不同的認識和體會。
Berenstain小熊系列總共有超過兩百本,簡直就是一本期刊雜誌的規模了。
繪本館內待售之Berenstain系列書
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Berenstain夫婦創作列表:
- The Berenstains’ Baby Book (1951, MacMillan)
- Sister (1952, Schuman cartoons)
- Tax-Wise (1952, Schuman)
- Marital Blitz (1954, Dutton)
- Baby Makes Four (1956, MacMillan)
- It’s All in the Family (1958, Dutton)
- Lover Boy (1958, MacMillan)
- And Beat Him When He Sneezes (1960, McGraw Hill)
- Have a Baby, My Wife Just Had a Cigar (1960, Dell, retitled reprint)
- Bedside Lover Boy (1960, Dell)
- Call Me Mrs. (1961, MacMillan)
- It’s Still in the Family (1961, Dutton)
- Office Lover Boy (1962, Dell)
- The Facts of Life for Grown-ups (1963, Dell)
- Flipsville-Squareville (1965, Delacorte)
- Mr. Dirty vs. Mrs. Clean (1967, Dell)
- You Could Diet Laughing (1969, Dell)
- Be Good or I’ll Belt You (1970, Dell)
- Education Impossible (1970, Dell)
- How to Teach Your Children about Sex without Making a Complete Fool of Yourself (1970, Dutton)
- Never Trust Anyone over 13 (1970, Bantam)
- How to Teach Your Children about God without Actually Scaring Them out of Their Wits (1971, Dutton)
- Are Parents for Real? (1972, Bantam)
- The Day of the Dinosaur (1987, Random House, First Time Readers)
- After the Dinosaurs (1988, Random House, First Time Readers)
- What Your Parents Never Told You about Being a Mom or Dad (1995) parenting advice
- Down A Sunny Dirt Road (2002) autobiography
- The Berenstain Bears and The Bear Essentials (2005) parenting advice
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