It's All in the Family (unrelated to the similarly named TV series) depicted the antics of a suburban family with mother, father, eldest and youngest sons, and middle daughter. It's All in the Family was not a conventional comic strip in the sense of a sequential progression of panels. Each issue featured a single situation, often seasonally appropriate, such as the daughter preparing, cooking, and serving a family meal for the first time or the costume preparations, rehearsal, and performance of the youngest child's Christmas pageant. Within a given issue, each It's All in the Family drawing was a stand-alone panel with a caption gag, rather than one panel of a sequential strip, but individual panels in order depicted the complete arc (preparation, completion, aftermath) of that issue's family experience. In the early 1960s, inspired by their children's enthusiasm for Dr. Seuss books, the Berenstains decided to attempt a series with animal protagonists themselves, settling on bears — not because of their surname as was commonly believed, but because "bears are furry and appealing." They published their first book featuring the Berenstain Bears, The Big Honey Hunt, in 1962. At the time, their inspiration, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), was working as an editor in the children's division of Random House Publishing and eagerly approved the concept. He edited several books in the Berenstain Bears series and created a lasting franchise including many more books, television series, toys, and stage productions. Over 300 books were published in 23 languages. Jan was inducted into Radnor High School's Hall of Fame on October 20, 2006. Personal lives The Berenstains were married for 59 years until Stan's death from cancer on November 26, 2005. They had two sons, Leo (born 1948) and Mike (born 1951). Mike Berenstain is a writer/illustrator who has been a published author since 1976. He worked with his parents on several Berenstain Bears books, and has continued to create new books in the franchise on his own. Jan Berenstain died of a stroke on February 24, 2012. Selected works The Berenstains' Baby Book (1951, MacMillan) Sister (1952, Schuman cartoons) Tax-Wise (1952, Schuman) Marital Blitz (1954, Dutton) Baby Makes Four (1956, MacMillan) It’s All in the Family (1958, Dutton) Lover Boy (1958, MacMillan) And Beat Him When He Sneezes (1960, McGraw Hill) Have a Baby, My Wife Just Had a Cigar (1960, Dell, retitled reprint) Bedside Lover Boy (1960, Dell) Call