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The Rover was a British boys' story paper which started in 1922. It absorbed Adventure becoming Rover And Adventure in 1961 and The Wizard becoming Rover And Wizard in 1963, and eventually folded in 1973. [1] It included characters such as Alf Tupper and Matt Braddock, early examples of the "working class hero".
The Adventure series is a collection of children's adventure novels by Willard Price. The original series, comprising 14 novels, was published between 1949 and 1980, and chronicles the adventures of teenagers Hal and Roger Hunt as they travel the world collecting exotic and dangerous animals.
A story paper is a periodical publication similar to a literary magazine, but featuring illustrations and text stories, and aimed towards children and teenagers. Also known in Britain as "boys' weeklies", story papers were phenomenally popular before the outbreak of the Second World War. Among the most well-known British story papers was Boy's ...
These books were published between 1984 and 1987 and were aimed at very young readers. Each book contains one central choice for the reader to make. Little Owl Leaves the Nest by Marcia Leonard; Little Pig’s Birthday by Marcia Leonard; Little Rabbit’s Baby Sister by Marcia Leonard; Little Duck Finds a Friend by Marcia Leonard
An adventure is an event or series of events that happens outside the course of the protagonist's ordinary life, usually accompanied by danger, often by physical action. Adventure stories almost always move quickly, and the pace of the plot is at least as important as characterization, setting, and other elements of creative work. [2]
Collins Magazine For Boys And Girls: 39 Biggles Goes to School: 1951 Pre-WWI Biggles's childhood, 2nd chronological, Boy’s Own Paper: 40 Biggles Works It Out: 1952 Post-WWII Boy’s Own Paper: 41 Biggles Takes the Case: 1952 Post-WWII, one from WWII 9 stories, some of them published in magazines 42 Biggles Follows On: 1952 Post-WWII Boy’s ...
The Boy's Own Paper, front page, 11 April 1891. Magazines intended for boys fall into one of three classifications. These are comics which tell the story by means of strip cartoons; story papers which have several short stories; and pulp magazines which have a single, but complete, novella in them.
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