Nancy Drew! My role model when I was little. These were my first addiction starting in grade 5 to about grade 8. I am still in love with the names of the books. I think I'd pretty much read all those that were in the library. We only had one class per week when we could go exhange our books but during the course of the week I'd have exchanged books at least 6 times and I used to read one book per night! Me and my sister. The reason we were so rushed was because once the books changed hands it we would have to track the next person who had it. I miss those days and I love Nancy Drew!!!
Information on the following book cover series: Nancy in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s
Ruth Sanderson and Paul Frame provided cover art and interior illustrations for the first Nancy Drew paperbacks, published under the Wanderer imprint. Other artists, including Aleta Jenks and others whose names are unknown, provided cover art, but no interior illustrations, for later paperbacks. Nancy is portrayed as "a wealthy, privileged sleuth who looks pretty and alert.... The colors, and Nancy's facial features, are often so vivid that some of the covers look more like glossy photographs than paintings."
Nancy is frequently portrayed pursuing a suspect, examining a clue, or observing action. She is often also shown in peril: being chased, falling off a boat, or hanging by a rope from rafters. These covers are
characterized by frenetic energy on Nancy's part; whether she is falling, limbs flailing, an alarmed look on her face, or whether she is running, hair flying, body bent, face breathless. Nancy does not have any control over the events that are happening in these covers. She is shown to be a victim, being hunted and attacked by unseen foes.[99]
Nancy is also sometimes pursued by a visibly threatening foe, as on the cover of The Case of the Vanishing Veil (1988).
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