The Bobbsey Twins or Merry Days Indoors and Out

Description

The Bobbsey Twins are the main heroes of what was, for a number of years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate’s endless series of tales for kids, written using the pen name Laura Lee Hope. The first of 72 volumes were produced in 1904, the final ones in 1979. The volumes about the excitements of the kids of the middleclass Bobbsey family, having two sets of fraternal twins: Bert and Nan at 12 years old and Flossie and Freddie at 6 years old.

The story comprises: The Bobbsey Twins at Home; Rope Jumping, and What Followed; The First Snow Storm; The Broken Window; Bert’s Ghost; Coasting, and What Came of It; Freddie and Flossie’s Snow House; Fun on the Ice; Freddie Loses Himself; Lost and Found; The Cruise of the “Ice Bird”; Tige–Playing Theater; Nan’s First Cake-Baking; Christmas; The Children’s Party; A Grand Sleigh Ride; The Race and the Runaway; A Quarrel in the Schoolyard; Nan’s Plea; St. Valentine’s Day; The Rescue of Snoop, the Kitten; and The Last of the Ghost–Good-Night.

Laura Lee Hope is an assumed name made use by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and many other series of stories for kids. Real authors using the pseudonym of Laura Lee Hope were Edward Stratemeyer, Howard and Lilian Garis, Elizabeth Ward, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, Andrew E. Svenson, June M. Dunn, Grace Grote and Nancy Axelrad.

Other books under the Stratemeyer Syndicate are: The Bobbsey Twins in 1904-present; The Outdoor Girls in 23 volumes from 1913-1933; The Moving Picture Girls in 7 volumes from 1914-1916; Bunny Brown in 20 volumes from 1916-1931; Six Little Bunkers in 14 volumes 1918-1930; Make Believe Stories in 12 volumes.from c. 1920-1923; and Blythe Girls in 12 volumes from 1925-1932.
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