But even if I had known this at the time, it wouldn’t have bothered me. I learned that Laura Lee Hope and Carolyn Keene weren’t real writers, just pseudonyms, that the characters in the books and the plots were created by the syndicate who then hired free-lance writers to actually compose the stories. The Bobbseys and Honey Bunch were my introduction to series books.Īs my reading skills developed, I moved up to ‘Nancy Drew’ and ‘The Dana Girls.’ It wasn’t until many years later, in library school, that I learned about the Stratemeyer Syndicate which had created some of the series that I loved. And there were the ‘Honey Bunch’ books, about a little girl with curly blonde hair who got into adventures with her friend Norman. At least, unlike Dick and Jane, they spoke in sentences of more than three words. Nan, Bert, Flossie, and Freddie may not have been the most finely developed characters, but at that point in time I didn’t have high expectations or demands. There were several volumes of ‘The Bobbsey Twins’, which I devoured. I’m not sure where they came from-looking back, I think they might have been my mother’s since they were published in the 1930s. Fortunately, there were children’s books at home.
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