MEMORY AVENUE: 25 Life Lessons I Learned from the Berenstain Bears

My sisters and I must have been some pretty moralistic children, because every night of our upbringings, when it

Only Papa got the sad, sad memo…

came to be read-us-a-book-before-bed time, we always demanded that our parents give us aBerenstain Bearsfix. Yeah,Mercer Mayer, you were cool, and okay, Eric Carle, nice paper-tearing, and aight,The Bad Babies Counting Book, you were pretty gangsta.

But for my money, those other books could only beat The Berenstain Bearsin a sucking contest. And I thi...