1. 'Encyclopedia Brown' author dies at age 87 →

    “The Encyclopedia Brown concept — in which the solutions to the mysteries are shown after the story — came to Sobol while he was researching an article at the New York Public Library, and a clerk mistakenly handed him a game book, with puzzles on one side and the solutions on the other…

    His family has asked that donations in his memory be made to The New York Public Library.” 

    He will live in our childhood memories forever.

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  10. rufiousreader said: A lot of these children writers were after my time but its amazing how many of these great ones are now passing.
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    I still reference facts I learned in...books (ex: squirrels cannot walk backwards)-...
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    Brown! A great children’s series.
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    I recommend Encyclopedia Brown to every little boy, about yea big, who walks up to my desk and asks for a “mythtery...
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