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The Bear Scouts

Design Category
Book design, 1970
Illustrators
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Collection
(1971) Fifty Books of the Year
Description

The original edition of The Bear Scouts was published in 1967 by Random House. This new edition, produced by Howe Memorial press with permission of Random House, Inc., is the first of a series of books to be produced in this format. The braille is embossed on clear acetate, allowing colorful pictures and printed story to show through. Thus the sighted parent or teacher and blind child can read the book together. “Braille-Vision” will be the trade name for childrens’ books that contain braille embossed on clear acetate. The Herber “Curastat” Static Eliminator is essential for handling Kodacel “acetate paper.” The Hallenbeck Embossing Machine, used on the book, was designed for hot stamping braille book spines and embossing braille titles.

Credits
Authors: Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Size: 6.25 x 9 inches
Pages: 68
Quantity printed: edition of 100
Price: $8.50
Typefaces: Fotosetter Century Schoolbook, 18/30, with display handlettered by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain, Standard English Braille: converted letterpress by Howe Memorial Press of Perkins School for the Blind
Typesetter: Westcott & Thomson, Inc.
Printer: Copifyer Lithographic Corporation
Printing method: Text offset
Papers: Clear Kodacel, 5 gauge, Williamsburg Offset, 70 lb.
Paper supplies: Arthur Blank Company, Richard Bauer and Company, Inc.
Binder: Howe Memorial Press
Binding materials: bound in Linear Polyethylene 078 Yellow supplied by Crawford Industries, Inc., G.B.C. Cercia Metal
Publishers: Random House, Inc. (New York, New York), Howe Memorial Press of Perkins School for the Blind (Watertown, Massachusetts)