Old Books Become New

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Old Books Become New
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Tue, 07-12-2005 - 7:23am

Browsing through the book sections you spy a cover or a title that jumps out at you. So you pick it up to investigatge and find that not only have you read it; but you read it quite some time ago. Have you noticed some of your old favorites being re-released with a new look and sometimes addded bonuses? Anyone have a story to tell about an old favorite becoming new?

Here's my story:

I was at the book store browsing through young adult- still some of my favorite reads. And then I saw it- a new cover of a series I read back in my younger days. Let me tell you I was excited. Some of my books are in bad shape from all the reading and re-reading. So who was the girl detective that came after Nancy Drew? I sure hope someone out there remebers Trixie Belden..... because she's back

Trixie Belden mysteries were written between the years 1948 and 1986. The series was originated by Julie Campbell who wrote the first six books. After that, the series was written under the pseudonym Kathryn Kenny by several in house writers at Western Publishing. Random House Publishing now owns the rights to Trixie Belden and the first four books in the series are back in print.

Trixie Belden is a teenage girl who lives at Crabapple Farm just outside Sleepyside-on-the-Hudson, New York with her parents and three brothers. In the first book she meets Honey Wheeler of the Manor House, they become best friends and Trixie embarks on her first mystery. Someday, she and Honey hope to start the Belden-Wheeler Detective agency. They sure get lots of training in the thirty-nine books in the series.

http://barbln.org/trixie/main.htm


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Tue, 07-12-2005 - 9:05am

I have some of those Trixie Belden books. I've been saving them for my daughter. I don't think I ever read the first books but I liked the ones I did read quite a bit...more than the Nancy Drew books.

I keep seeing the S.E. Hinton books (The Outsiders, Rumblefish, etc...) coming out every 5-10 years with new covers, looking like new books. Of course, with up-to-date covers, they seem more likely to catch the attention of today's reader.

Tracy

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Tue, 07-12-2005 - 10:13am

Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys are on the 99 Cents Store bookshelf in paperback.