Jan Berenstain

A reading-skill bolstering story featuring the Berenstain Bears finds the family visiting an aquarium where the cubs look forward to learning about their favorite sea creatures, from penguins and seals to whales and dolphins.

Make your way to the ballot box --- Mama is running for mayor! There are lots of improvements to be made in Bear Country, and Mama has a plan. She's going to fix the roads, pick up the trash, and replace the broken streetlights. But will she promise too much?

Brother and Sister offer to help care for Oscar the pony in exchange for riding lessons from Farmer Ben.

The Good Deed Scouts--Brother and Sister Bear, Cousin Fred, and Lizzie--decide that their good deed for the day will be helping Mama Bear around the house.

When tired Mama Bear requires a night off from cooking and cleaning, Papa and the cubs take her out for dinner to the Bear Country Grill to show their appreciation.

When Brother and Sister visit the Bearsonian Museum, they luck out. A real dinosaur dig is taking place. What sort of fossils will they find? A Stegosaurus? A Spinosaurus? The mighty Tyrannosaurus rex? Dig in with the Berenstain Bears and find out!

"The Berenstain Bears live in a wonderful place filled with green grass, blue skies, and lots of furry friends. But on a fishing trip at the creek, the Bear family discovers that the town dump is overflowing. It's spilling garbage and oil into the water! Can the Berenstain Bears find a pollution solution before their beloved county is filled with garbage?"--Page 4 of cover.

When the Good Deed Scouts find a cub who has lost his mother, they try to help him find her again.

The Bear Scouts fix up an old house for Widow McBear to turn into a homeless shelter.

Brother and Sister Bear learn how important it is to tell the truth after they accidentally break Mama Bear's most favorite lamp.