The View From Drew

Talking about The Magic Tree House series and Eddie's love for it, got me nostalgic for the series I followed as a kid.  I loved reading, of course, The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.  I was also very much into Encyclopedia Brown, The Great Brain, and Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators.  Does anyone remember the latter one?  I read just about every one of the original series, I think.  By the time they had dropped Hitchcock as they couldn't afford to pay his estate, I had moved on to Star Trek novels.  With all the series that are out there, it's a shame they don't have a new series of Three Investigators books out as they tried to do in the 80's.  It was a great series.

What I liked about it was that the boys weren't that old (something that was changed in the later series as they could drive).  They had a clubhouse and Jupiter Jones, the leader of the three was meticulous about maintaining his notes on the case for Hitchcock's approval.  I also liked the fact that Jones, an overweight kid, was the leader and didn't let his weight stop him from doing things.  At the time I was reading them, I was a little chunky, so I could relate to Jupiter.

I'll have to do some research soon into tracking down some copies of the books as Eddie gets a little older.  He might enjoy them as I did.