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Pre-1990's kids' books...

To oldfags of /lit/, I was just wondering what kids' books you were into before there was such as thing as Harry Potter, Twilight, Goosebumps etc. Personally I was a fan of The Three Investigators and The Famous Five and I was just wondering if you were into The Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew or any of that?

>> No.2013646

I grew up in the 90s, but I still loved the Three Investigators. Everything else I read was more contemporary, though.

>> No.2013647

Grew up in the Nineties but loved Three Investigators and Hardy Boys, as well as stuff like John Bellairs, Lloyd Alexander, and Susan Cooper. Also Boxcar Kids.

>> No.2013662

*deep breath*
Three Investigators, Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Tarzan/Barsoom/Anything Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard, E.E. 'Doc' Smith, Heinlein's juveniles, Alexander Key, H. Beam Piper, Andre Norton, Fritz Leiber, and many more....

>> No.2013677

I'm 90s, but I liked Nancy Drew, The Boxcar Children, The Bobbsey Twins, and Little House on the Prairie.

My library had all the chapter book series in their own section, and I pretty much read all of them except the ones about horses or sports.

>> No.2013680

Dude. Those were the ones where the kids had a secret base in the junkyard and shit right? I loved those.

>> No.2013685

>>2013680
Yeah, their uncle gave them a caravan and they piled junk on it till everyone forgot it was there and they had a whole forensics lab in there.

>> No.2013695

>>2013685

Jupiter Jones was a former child star known as "Baby Fatso", and he lives with his Uncle Titus and Aunt Matilda in a junkyard. His best friends are Bob (who has asthma) and Pete (who is a handsome athlete, and the three of them start a private detective agency, and enjoy the patronage of Alfred Hitchcock.

>> No.2013702

>>2013695
I remember being disappointed when I found out Alfred Hitchcock hadn't written those books.

>> No.2013703

Nancy Drew made me into the effeminate manchild I am today

>> No.2013709

>>2013680
>>2013685
I never read them but my kids *love* those books

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2013722

I came across "The 3 Investigators - Crimebusters - Hot Wheels" in a bookshop in the mid nineties and they'd all grown up a bit and were about 18 I think. Jupe was still fat, Pete was still a jock but Bob had ditched his glasses, got contact lenses, and become very handsome and all the girls loved him.