I love detective stories. When I was a girl, I read the entire Nancy Drew series. Several of the most popular detective series have been translated into Hebrew. This includes ננסי דרו / Nancy Drew, בני הרדי/ The Hardy Boys, and השבעייה הסודית/ The Secret Seven.
יונתן בלש ממש/ Jonathan The Effective Detective by דויד גרוסמן / David Grossman will be your child's first detective story. Jonathan's slippers are missing. His green cup is missing and his father's glasses. What's going on? Is there a thief in the house? Little Jonathan decides to be the house detective and find the missing items. In the end, Jonathan not only finds out who took the items but why.
Ages 3-6.
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Ariel Berkowitz has a mystery to solve. But his mother thinks other things are more important than detective work. Ariel promises to clean his room so his mother allows him to solve one more mystery. Who keeps stealing the pizza delivery boy's skates? Find the answer in ברקוביץ חוקר פרטי: תעלומת הגלגליות האבודות / Berkovitz Private Detective: The Mystery of the Lost Skates by יורגן בנשרוס / Jurgen Banscherus. This book and the other two books in the series are translated from the German. Ages 7-9.
Emil's mother gives him money to bring to his grandmother in Berlin. It's a large sum of money and he pins it to the lining of his jacket. He falls asleep during the train trip and when he wakes up, the money is gone! In Berlin, Emil meets a boy named Gustav. Gustav and his gang of "detective" friends help Emil find the cash. Ages 9-11.
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A new edition was published in 1996. This edition was quite unusual. Fifty years after the book was first published, Avidar-Chernavitz and her daughter updated the vocabulary and writing style in the book to make it more accessible to today's children. Ages 10-12.
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I can't believe they used a fake name for the author of the Nancy Drew books!
ReplyDeleteAs a kid I loved having a book about a girl detective and later on I also appreciated that it had a female author.
Sad but true!
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