Review
“This impressive work chronicles the 90-year history of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, responsible for the authorship of more than 1300 popular children's books and magazine stories including the Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series. Johnson's excellent bibliography of these publications is organized by the many authors' pseudonyms. The various appendixes and indexes direct the user to the main checklist from a variety of access points including illustrator, publication date, series name, and series publisher. There appears to be no important information about this material which the editor has failed to compile or discuss in one way or another. For libraries with historical children's literature collections, and those with a clientele of collectors of children's literature, this source should prove very useful indeed.”–Library Journal
From the Publisher
This impressive work chronicles the 90-year history of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, responsible for the authorship of more than 1300 popular children's books and magazine stories including the Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series. Johnson's excellent bibliography of these publications is organized by the many authors' pseudonyms. The various appendixes and indexes direct the user to the main checklist from a variety of access points including illustrator, publication date, series name, and series publisher. There appears to be no important information about this material which the editor has failed to compile or discuss in one way or another. For libraries with historical children's literature collections, and those with a clientele of collectors of children's literature, this source should prove very useful indeed.
