Jan Berenstain

Although she is a very good soccer player, Sister Bear isn't allowed to try out for the team until she is bigger, and so she signs up to be the team manager in hopes of proving herself to the coach.

The Berenstain Bear cubs have an adventure on Halloween night that proves Mother's adage, "Appearances can be deceiving."

The new cub in Sister Bear's second grade class looks and acts so strange that Sister avoids him when he tries to make friends.

The three Bear Detectives search for a dinosaur bone that is missing from the Bear Museum.

Brother gets in trouble when he allows television, his boom box, the telephone, and other distractions to keep him from doing his homework.

Amidst their playtime pretending to be superheroes, Brother, Sister, and Honey Bear get to be real life heroes when a young neighbor falls off his bike.

When Brother Bear brings a spooky book from the library, bedtime and the dark become ominous and threatening to Sister Bear.

In alternating chapters Stan and Jan Berenstain, creators of the Berenstain Bears, tell their own stories from early childhood until their marriage, then continue the tale together to the present day.