![]() I only know about this series because my mother still has most of the books from when she was a kid. These range from finding lost treasures to dealing with bullies who really ought to be sent to reform school. After moving to the town of Shoreham, where John has acquired a hardware/toy store, the kids have all kinds of adventures. It follows a relentlessly optimistic family of seven: children Pete, Pam, Ricky, Holly, and Sue parents John and Elaine plus their dog, six cats, and later a donkey. The Happy Hollisters series ran from 1953 to 1969. But do these ‘dorable detectives deserve such an ignoble fate? Let’s find out! Meet the Happy Hollisters ![]() One series that has fallen through many readers’ mental cracks is the Happy Hollisters. ![]() ![]() Kid detective books are so popular and so numerous that it’s almost impossible to keep track of them all. ![]()
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![]() In Green's Jungles is Wolfe's major new fiction, The Book of the Short Sun, building toward a strange and seductive climax. And people mistake him for Silk, to whom he now bears a remarkable resemblance. ![]() His personality now seemingly inhabits a different body, so that even his sons do not recognize him. He has also encountered the mysterious aliens, the Neighbors, who once inhabited both Blue and Green. There, he led a band of mercenary soldiers, answered to the name of Rajan, and later became the ruler of a city state. Horn recalls visiting the Whorl, the enormous spacecraft in orbit that brought the settlers from Urth, and going thence to the planet Green, home of the blood-drinking alien inhumi. Now Horn's identity has become ambiguous, a complex question embedded in the story, whose telling is itself complex, shifting from place to place, present to past. It is again narrated by Horn, who has embarked on a quest from his home on the planet Blue in search of the heroic leader Patera Silk. ![]() Gene Wolfe's In Green's Jungles is the second volume, after On Blue's Waters, of his ambitious SF trilogy, The Book of the Short Sun. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Harvard graduate even suggested running for the office herself: "a skinny Black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother, who can dream of being president one day, only to find herself reciting for one." With her opening lines alluding to the siege of the Capitol by a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, just days prior to Biden's inauguration, her poem ended on a note of promise and hope. Today, Amanda Gorman is best remembered for her stirring recitation of her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb." 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