I always wondered why the bear family did not have real names, but everybody else did. And that Sister Bear was called Sister, even though she was also a daughter. Why wasn't that her name? In relation to the parents, who presumably named her, wouldn't Daughter have made more sense? And Brother was older, so are we just to accept that he was an only child named BROTHER for a couple of years? And what if they decided not to have more kids? Then his name would have been even weirder.

Aside from that complete failure of literary foresight or creativity, I really loved those books. RIP Jan.

Ah, just clicked that link. He started out as SMALL BEAR. Still bogus.