Thread: Trixie Belden in ebook? Yes!
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Old 03-14-2012, 01:52 PM   #11
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by abookreader View Post
One thing that always strikes me whenever I re-read Trixie Belden is how absolutely un-Helicopterish the parenting is in that series. It is a real eye opener when you compare it to middle class America today.

I mean, the pack of them are cruising around New York City with only the Governess who checks in on them nightly even pretending to chaperone. And they go spelunking in the Ozarks.
Yeah, that was true of most books like that - Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew - they seemed to have almost unlimited autonomy.
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