In this remix of the classic tale, Detective Doggedly is trying to catch the huffing, puffing, house-blowing wolf before he eats the three little pigs for dinner. Then disaster strikes amidst the festivities: someone has eaten the lavish birthday feast! Horace must figure out who the culprit is in the eleventh hour-which of his friends has dunnit?! Where’s the Big Bad Wolf ? by Eileen Christelow In this beautifully illustrated picture book-seriously, the detail in these drawings is stunning-Horace the elephant throws himself an extravagant costume party to celebrate his eleventh birthday. The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by Graeme Base This one is for the really little humans so it’s sort of in a league of its own! The books in the Babylit Sounds Primer series all use simple word pairings to introduce young minds to classic works of literature, like this one about the famed quirky detective of London’s Baker Street. So, funny story-a lot of mystery books for kids like to riff off the Sherlock thing. Picture Mystery Books For Kids (infants, toddlers, preschool, Kindergarten) Sherlock Holmes in the Hound of the Baskervilles (A Babylit Sounds Primer) by Jennifer Adams, Illustrated by Allison Oliver The list spans everything from cake theft capers in picture books to art heist novels for middle grade readers. I’ve compiled a list of 50 mystery books for kids, both new and tried & true. There are so many fantastic mystery series and standalone works out there by a diverse mix of authors and illustrators. They’re also just plain fun.Ĭlassics like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys still have a healthy readership, but the genre has come a long way. Mystery books for kids are great because they foster logical thinking and deductive reasoning. But long before Agatha Christie and Alan Bradley filled my bookshelves, I was a kid enraptured by spies named Harriet and kids living in boxcars. I want to be Miss Marple when I grow up and Flavia de Luce is absolutely my best friend in my head. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library. Vanessa’s penchant for books, travel and tea is rivaled only by her serious addictions to milk, avocado and floral lattes. If loving Agatha Christie is wrong, she doesn't want to be right. What I wouldn't give for a time machine.Vanessa is a writer, reader and generally bookish Latina from San Diego. I hate to think about what might have happened to them. I wish I could get my hands on some of those grade school books now. In the later sixties and early seventies I was reading Doc Savage, the Shadow and others. Yeah, they were dated, but I didn't and still don't care. For years prior to reading them I had been reading the Tom Swift Junior stories, so I was all set up to read the older stuff when I found some. My personal favorites were Tom Swift stories. The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, the Edison Boys, Tom Swift (the original) and others. In addition to the school library, most classrooms in my grade school had book shelves loaded with books, many published in the first three or four decades of the 20th century. I never heard of the Three Investigators, but I did manage to get my hands on original editions of some Hardy Boys (and several similar serial-type stories from the same era) when I was in grade school in the early sixties. It has continued on successfully in Germany, however, where there are currently over 100 books in the series.įrom 1998 - 2000, Random House began to slowly reissue the original 43 Three Investigators titles yet again, but it may come as no surprise that this effort has stalled and plans for continuation are unclear. Jenny Fanelli retired from Random House soon after and any new work on The Three Investigators series was effectively terminated in North America. Both were discontinued after runs of eleven and twelve books, respectively. This was perhaps the final blow of the original series and it soon faded away in 1987 after an impressive 23 year, 43 book run.įrom 1989 - 1992, Random House attempted to revive The Three Investigators with the new, young adult targeted, Crimebusters series and an erratic reissue of the original 43 books. In 19, Random House made what most fans consider to be the worst decision of the series when it published the Revised Edition of the original 30 Hitchcock books, in which all references to Alfred Hitchcock were removed and replaced with Hector Sebastian.
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