Trixie Belden in ebook? Yes!

[khalleron]

Eight of the Trixie Belden Mysteries have been released in ebook - I've found them both on Amazon and Kobo. Random House, so agency pricing (yuk!), but my library has seven of them, so check there if your library has ebooks.

Yay!

[melmac]

Ok that's a little freaky yesterday I was reading the reading Rec thread and
this was posted

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Apache, I know you like mysteries. If you'd like to hear them served up with equal parts noir and humor, I'd recommend Decoder Ring Theater's Black Jack Justice podcasts, starring Christopher Mott as Jack and Andrea Lyons as Trixie Dixon, Girl Detective; modern day whodunnits done in the style of old-time radio.

I misread Trixie Dixon, Girl Detective as Trixie Beldon which is something I haven't thought about since I was a girl I had completely forgotten they existed even though they were one of my absolute favourites back then. Then today I drop in and this thread greats me freaky man I'm definitely going to check these out

[Sweetpea]

The name sounds familiar, I might have a book of that series...

[abookreader]

OMG - that is great news and the price isn't terrible. Jim Frayne after all was my very first secret boyfriend.

[elemenoP]

Would these be good to read to my 7 year old?

eP

Edited to add: she is a chicken about anything scary.

[khalleron]

Originally Posted by elemenoP

Would these be good to read to my 7 year old?

eP

Edited to add: she is a chicken about anything scary.

It depends on what she's afraid of. There's nothing supernatural about these. Trixie and her friends are 'typical' teens and pre-teens (I say 'typical' with quotes because the books were written in the '50s and '60s) who encounter mysteries wherever they go. There are no murders or violence, however, although the denouements are usually 'thrilling'.

I read them when I was a kid and much preferred them to Nancy Drew myself, finding both the characters and the situations more realistic.

[RDaneel54]

Originally Posted by khalleron

I read them when I was a kid and much preferred them to Nancy Drew myself, finding both the characters and the situations more realistic.

Well Nancy is over eighty now.

[5thWiggle]

Originally Posted by elemenoP

Would these be good to read to my 7 year old?

eP

Edited to add: she is a chicken about anything scary.

I'm thinking about getting a few for my daughters and trying them out (read them aaagggggeeess ago myself and don't remember anything too scary).

Also try the Magic Treehouse series, and the Little House on the Prairie books.

(Father of seven year old twins who have yet to watch an entire Disney movie because there are "scary" bits. They'll even run from the room if the music gets a little intense)

[pendragginp]

Originally Posted by khalleron

It depends on what she's afraid of. There's nothing supernatural about these. Trixie and her friends are 'typical' teens and pre-teens (I say 'typical' with quotes because the books were written in the '50s and '60s) who encounter mysteries wherever they go. There are no murders or violence, however, although the denouements are usually 'thrilling'.

I read them when I was a kid and much preferred them to Nancy Drew myself, finding both the characters and the situations more realistic.

Yes, exactly. The first five books were my favorites, all written by Julie Campbell Tatham. After she stopped writing them the series was shopped out to different writers, and I thought the quality really suffered. Maybe that's just me though.

Good to know some are ebooks!

[abookreader]

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.

[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by abookreader

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.

[khalleron]

Originally Posted by Andrew H.

Yeah, that was true of most books like that - Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew - they seemed to have almost unlimited autonomy.

Remember being six years old and spending all day running around the neighborhood in the summer, without an adult in sight?

That's the real generational divide, sadly enough.

[RDaneel54]

Originally Posted by khalleron

Remember being six years old and spending all day running around the neighborhood in the summer, without an adult in sight?

That's the real generational divide, sadly enough.

Yes. "Be home before dark," Mom said. But then, neighbors looked out for each other then. You did anything wrong in the neighborhood and Mom and Dad knew it before you got home.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Andrew H.

Yeah, that was true of most books like that - Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew - they seemed to have almost unlimited autonomy.

Well, that was the appeal. A lot of them were even missing mothers entirely, so they had a lot of freedom.

[LuvReadin]

I had the entire set - each one would appear in our local shop every 2 weeks, and coincidentally, cost 2 weeks' pocket money! No idea where they are now, sadly.