The Berenstain Bears' Media Madness

Berenstain Bears Big Chapter Books #14

by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain

Illustrated in black-and-white. It looks as if the video age is taking over at Bear Country School when Teacher Bob helps the cubs set up a school TV station. Will the cubs still have time for the three R's? Or are they doomed to be vid-kids forever?  

Genres: Childrens

112 pages, Paperback

First published March 21, 1995

About the author

Stan and Jan Berenstain (often called The Berenstains) were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children's book series the Berenstain Bears. Their son Mike Berenstain joined them as a creative team in the late 1980s.

Reviews

[Trevor Bouma]

Bear Country TV was a lot of fun for the Berenstain Bears. They ran a television station. The station was so popular. It went public, but the bears weren't studying very much. They learned that there can be too much of a good thing and that there's more to life than television. It was a good story.

[Christy Tisnawijaya]

"[T]here's more to life than television" 102.

[Becky Mcginn]

"I think it's an awesome book, that's perfect for kids. The writers are really smart." Cullen age 9

[Annarino K]

This is another one that I personally found kind of dry and getting outdated, but the 6-year old kiddie really liked it. The Berenstains are very careful to build in positive lessons about the moral high ground, which is a nice touch. The bears themselves are cute and the kids always manage to get into some kind of mildly challenging situation that they have to think their way out of. Would happily pick up another in the series.

[Jerome Otte]

The kids set up a school TV station. The story is dry and quite dated at this point. The moral of the story seems to be the superiority of schoolwork to TV sensationalism, but the cover seems to suggest the moral to be about the dangers of running an amateur circus with schoolkids. Seriously, what kind of school TV station is this?

[Johnny Bennett]

Prereading this for my kids. Man is it dated.

[Laura]

Early chapter book