![]() ![]() But where would the title take us? Ted wanted something completely different, huh? A whole new feel? A whole new look? We’d give him a look that would knock his socks off. But what was it? What did it mean? It would make an interesting title. The phrase “inside, outside, upside down” was such an idea. ![]() Most of our story ideas are consciously thought up. We had, in our innocence, thought we coulddo bears forever. Ted’s excitement was electrifying, but the effect was short-circuited by his “don’t do bears” edict. “And, oh yes,” he added in an aside that sent our hearts down into our shoes. So put the scout thing aside and see what you can come up with for the new line.” “We’re very excited about it,” he continued. He was starting a whole new line called “Bright and Early Books.” It would be much younger than Beginner Books – a reading-readiness line. We were working on the text of The Bear Scouts, which would be our fourth bear book, when Ted called from La Jolla. Adapted and excerpted from Stan and Jan Berenstain’s Down a Sunny Dirt Road: an Autobiography, published by Random House in 2002. ![]()
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