BearManor Media News — peggy adler

Q & A with author/illustrator Peggy Adler about Peggy’s Puzzles – Volume Two   Q.  How did you come to write Peggy’s Puzzles – Volume Two? A.  Volume Two is actually comprised of two puzzle books that I wrote and illustrated in the mid-1970s for a New York publishing company. Metric Puzzles and Math Puzzles.   Q.  What is the story behind them? A.  In 1976, an editor at New York’s Franklin Watts Publishing Company contacted me to say that the United States was going to be “metricized” in 1981. Thus, Watts wanted me to write and illustrate a book that...

, by Peggy Adler and Dibirma Jean Burnham, is the true story of Emil Pallenberg (1888-1963),  considered to have been the greatest bear trainer of his time. In 1908, he became the first person to teach a bear to ride a bicycle. He also taught his bears to roller skate, dance, walk on stilts, play musical instruments and walk the tight rope. The Pallenberg’s bears appeared in major motion pictures -- and one was on Broadway for over a year. Laura was in the 1932 Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein Musical, Music in the Air, while Mischka (aka Carmichael) was featured in a movie with Jack Benny.  Yet when the Pallenbergs and their Wonder Bears weren’t performing, they all lived in our little shoreline town of Clinton, Connecticut.