Jan Berenstain

Their friends would as bored hearing the story as I was reading it. Their friends wouldn't care.

How big is Bear Country, anyway? They took a fricking road trip around it in another book, complete with their own version of Mount Rushmore and Niagara Falls, and now they've got the Official Skate Park in somebody's cow pasture.

If you did find that kind of thing, you certainly wouldn't let an entire family traipse through the middle of your dig!

Papa Bear, to his credit, realizes that he's done something wrong before it's pointed out to him by Sister Bear, so he's able to take her criticism well.

If it had some better illustrations, this one might actually be good.

No. You can't leave it like that. You can't let readers think that she actually did get the wish.

Basically just the first day of dog ownership, and you know those kids are going to start slacking off and avoiding their dog-related chores the same way they avoid all their other chores.

This is another book where nothing really gets resolved on a permanent basis. That's the kind of thing that will build into a cycle.

The best part: “'What is booty, Papa?' Asked Sister.”

I was really expecting it to be about Mama and Papa bear realizing that sometimes pushing everybody to do too many things on a long car trip is a bad idea, but no.