![]() ![]() The first volume in his own original series, The Happy Hollisters, was published in 1953 by Doubleday & Company, and he was made a partner in the Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1961. Dixon (The Hardy Boys) and as Laura Lee Hope (The Bobbsey Twins). He joined the Stratemeyer Syndicate as a writer in 1948, where he contributed to established series as Franklin W. Andrew Svenson was encouraged by his friend Howard Garis (author of Uncle Wiggily) to try his hand at juvenile fiction. He also taught creative writing courses at Rutgers University and Upsala College. After his graduation in 1932, he worked as a reporter and editor for the Newark Star Eagle and the Newark Evening News. He was editor of his high school newspaper and yearbook at Barringer High School in Newark, and then went on to study Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Andrew Svenson was born in Belleville, NJ, in 1910, and his interest in writing started early. The Happy Hollisters, however, were all written by Andrew Svenson, whose identity as Jerry West was kept secret until several years after his death in 1975. Many of these series were intended to have long publishing lives, and were written by multiple authors using the same pseudonym. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was a book packager, well-known for its development of children's book series including Tom Swift, The Bobbsey Twins, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew. Jerry West was the pen name Svenson used when he started writing The Happy Hollisters for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Svenson, a prolific yet somewhat anonymous, writer of books for children. The Happy Hollisters by Jerry West was actually written by Andrew E. ![]() Hardcover (8.5¿ x 5.5¿) 195 pages with over 70 illustrations and 8 bonus pages ![]() Here is another exciting adventure with this family of happy people whose unity and warmth is felt throughout their unusual experiences. They learn to ski, drive a dog sled and solve a mystery in the land of deep snow and long cold winters. The children have much fun preparing for their trip and enjoy themselves as much as ever in their new and interesting surroundings. A mystery involving the children's schoolteacher, her missing brother (a fine trainer of Eskimo dogs) and some valuable Eskimo puppies that appear then disappear from an abandoned barn near the Camp. No one had any idea, while waiting for the invitation to arrive, that Snowflake Camp would turn out to be the trail's end of a mystery which started in Shoreham. Hollister run a winter resort called Snowflake Camp in Canada, the children thought it would be a wonderful idea to ask their grandparents if they could visit them over the Thanksgiving vacation when the next Carnival would be starting. The show was featuring dog sled races during a yearly Canadian Trappers' Carnival. One day the Hollister children saw their grandparents on television. ![]()
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