The Happy Hollisters

The Happy Hollisters on the Big Screen?

The Happy Hollisters on the big screen? We think The Happy Hollisters would make a swell movie, and over the years a number of screenwriters and producers have thought …

The Happy Hollisters

What Other Books Did “Jerry West” Write?

If you’re a baseball fan as well as a fan of the Happy Hollisters, you’ll be interested to know that “Jerry West” was writing baseball stories before he started …

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Meet the Tollivers

In 1967, Happy Hollisters’ author Andrew Svenson (also known as “Jerry West”) introduced The Tolliver Adventure Series using a new pseudonym, Alan Stone. This series of three books, published …

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Hear an Interview with the Real “Jerry West”!

The last week of September is Banned Books Week, which always reminds us how The Happy Hollisters and other Stratemeyer Syndicate children’s mystery series (like the Hardy Boys, Nancy …

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Happy 60th Anniversary, Happy Hollisters!

Please join us in celebrating a very special event in publishing history! Sixty years ago today, on August 3, 1953, the first four volumes of an exciting new children’s …