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More mysteries solved by Nancy Drew.

• Nancy Drew Mystery Stories is a book series that is often named the ‘original’ or ‘classic’ Nancy Drew series.
• Stratemeyer Syndicate, producers of other mystery series such as the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift, produced the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories.
• Grosset & Dunlap first published the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories in 1930 and continued publishing the series until 1979, when Simon & Schuster took over, until the series concluded in 2003.
• Twenty-eight people, all ghost writers for the series, have written Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, most notably Mildred Bensen under the pen name Carolyn Keene, under the orders of Edward Stratemeyer and descendants, who thought of the idea and founded the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
• Nancy Drew Mystery Stories is a series of 175 books, the first 56 published by Grosset & Dunlap, and the rest by Simon & Schuster.

• Nancy Drew Mystery Stories were originally published as hardbacks, but in 1979 they began to be produced as paperbacks.
• Nancy Drew is the main character in the series of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, who is a female teenager and the mystery solver.
• Nancy Drew Mystery Stories were written after the success of the Hardy Boys, also produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, to give a sense of mystery to young female readers, and the series made a very significant impact on female culture and society, and continues to be popular to this day.
• Nancy Drew Mystery Stories have been turned into six films, all produced by Warner Bros, the most recent film having been released on 15 June, 2007.
• The first Nancy Drew Mystery Stories book was ‘The Secret of the Old Clock’ and the last being ‘Werewolf in a Winter Wonderland’.

Bibliography:
Nancy Drew, 2013, Wikipedia, < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Drew>

Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, 2013, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Drew_Mystery_Stories>

Amazon:   
Nancy Drew Book Series – Multiple Selections

Enter the wardrobe to the magical world of…

• The Chronicles of Narnia is a collection of seven high fantasy novels.
• The Chronicles of Narnia are written by C.S.Lewis.
• The Chronicles of Narnia have sold over 100 million books, in 47 languages.
• The full set of the Chronicles of Narnia was written from 1949 – 1954.
• The Chronicles of Narnia were first published by Harper Collins.

• The name ‘Narnia’ was based on the name of  the ancient Italian town, ‘Narni’.
• The books that make up the Chronicles of Narnia, in order of publication are ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)’,  ‘Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (1951)’, ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)’, ‘The Silver Chair (1953)’, ‘The Horse and His Boy (1954)’, ‘The Magician’s Nephew (1955)’ and ‘The Last Battle (1956)’.
• The main characters of The Chronicles of Narnia are Aslan, the Pevensie family, Prince Caspian and The White Witch.
• The Chronicles of Narnia series is based on Christian beliefs and the life of C.S.Lewis.
• The official reading order of the Chronicles of Narnia is ‘The Magician’s Nephew’, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, ”The Horse and His Boy ‘, ‘Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia’, ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’, ‘The Silver Chair’, and lastly, ‘The Last Battle’.

Bibliography:
The Chronicles of Narnia 18 November 2012, Wikipedia, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia>