NANCY DREW A SPRY 74-YEAR-OLD REGION Edition

According to Publisher's Weekly, the original Drew book, "The Secret of the Old Clock," sold a respectable 150,000 copies in 2002, while the four subsequent volumes sold more than 100,000 copies each. (First introduced in 1930, there are 174 volumes in the original series, penned by v...

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Published inPittsburgh post-gazette (Pittsburgh, Pa. 1978)
Main Author RACHEL LEIBROCK SACRAMENTO BEE
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Pittsburgh, Pa Pittsburgh Post - Gazette 14.03.2004
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Axt, Katherine
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Summary:According to Publisher's Weekly, the original Drew book, "The Secret of the Old Clock," sold a respectable 150,000 copies in 2002, while the four subsequent volumes sold more than 100,000 copies each. (First introduced in 1930, there are 174 volumes in the original series, penned by various authors -- all under the Carolyn Keene pseudonym.) "You have to attract the kids -- they're not [voluntarily] picking up Nancy Drew in the store," says Katherine Axt, who used to read the detective series faithfully when she was in elementary school. Instead, says Axt, while kids are still introduced to [Nancy] through parents and older relatives, she faces stiff competition from the slick, media-savvy Mary-Kates and Ashleys of the world. Nancy's makeover gives her a fighting chance, says Axt, 24, of Dallas. Whereas other age-old children's figures might seem stuck in a time warp, Drew "can remain a literary icon as long as she's updated."
ISSN:1068-624X