[bksvol-discuss] Re: Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, etc.
- From: "Paula and James Muysenberg" <outofsightlife@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:21:37 -0500
Hi Cindy,
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew is available on Bookshare, and I
think they did get it from Gutenberg. I'm reading it to our kids, and trying
to do a little clean-upp as I go. It's in pretty good shape, but has a few
amusing errors (such as howl for bowl, and Potty for Polly). I hope to
submit a cleaned-up version at some point. I would love to find some of the
other books in that series.
Regards,
Paula
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 10:11 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, etc.
> When I was trying to find the book Merrill was talking
> about (the marooned children on the disappearing
> island), I tried Bobbsey Twins, and learned what Jake
> said -- the Stratemeyer syndicate not only wrote the
> Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books but also the Bobbsey
> Twins, Tom Swift and Rover Boys series. That came as a
> shock to me. I knew that later books in the series had
> been written by other people and, as Jake said, the
> older ones were re-published in more modern terms, but
> I didn't know that the original supposed-authors
> didn't exist. I also learned that Stratemeyer's
> daughters took over after he died.
>
> Is anyone here old enough to remember the Five Little
> Peppers series? I think they might be available from
> Project Gutenberg (that tells you how old the books
> must be, though I enjoyed them in the '40s).
> Presumably, since they were wriiten by the Stratemeyer
> syndicate they were by the ostensible author.
>
> Cindy
>
> P.S. A long time ago there was a news story --
> true--about a girl had been kidnapped and locked in a
> trunk and was able to escape from the trunk because of
> what she remembered from reading a Nancy Drew mystery.
>
>
>
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