num_pages: 452
description: Examining the contents, themes and publishing histories of juvenile literature in late-20th-century America, this text covers Louisa May Alcott to Nancy Drew's home town, including Tom Swift, Dave Fearless, the Bobbsey Twins, Howard R. Garis, Leo Edwards, the Rover Boys and Percy Keese Fitzhugh. The book has a factual as well as humorous approach and includes many illustrations to detail the publishing histories of these individual books and series.
language: English
title: Tom Swift, the Bobbsey Twins and Other Heroes of American Juvenile Literature
titlecomplete: Tom Swift, the Bobbsey Twins and Other Heroes of American Juvenile Literature
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Edwin Mellen Press