I remember a series of children’s mystery books from when I was in 1st grade, which would’ve been 1987-1988. Each book in the series had the same color hard cover. The hard cover was thin and maybe glossy. I remember a series having an orange cover, but there was a different series from the same author or publisher that had a different color hard cover.
From my memory, I seem to remember there being a British-ness to the books. Some took place in a city, others in the country.
I remember liking the books and now that I have children, I’d like to read these books to them.
Thanks!
Augustus
Possibly one of Enid Blyton’s series – pre-1980s, but would have been still around at that time, including the ‘Famous Five’ books (‘Five Fall Into Adventure’; etc.); the ‘Secret Seven’ books; or the ‘Mystery’ books (‘The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat’); etc.
Could it be the Secret Seven?
I’m looking for a book similar to what was described here. “From my memory, I seem to remember there being a British-ness to the books. Some took place in a city, others in the country.”
But I’d like to add that this was around my childhood so sometime before 95.
Also in the book was magic, unicorns fairies and such. But also around the time electricity started becoming widely used (ie the beginning of street lamps)
I also remember what the books looked like (yes plural!)
It was a set of a minimum of 5 books, but my heart says there were 7.
The books themselves were all brown with gold leaf. The cover had a small crest or was plain, the side had authors name, book title and some goldleaf design.
Also attached to the binding was one of the ribbon bookmarks, of a slightly darker shade of brown then the book itself.