ISBN: | 978-5-5132-8158-0 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Care Bears are a group of characters created by the U.S. greeting card company, American Greetings, in 1981. The title characters originally appeared in card artwork by Elena Kucharik, before branching out into various media and merchandise. The franchise launched in 1982 with ten title characters, and in 1984 added several more characters known as the Care Bear Cousins.:52