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~ Below, you will find comments from readers regarding the Happy Hollisters books and comments about Happy-Hollisters.com as well as questions I have yet to answer. If you would like to view questions answered by Rachel, view here. If you would like to view comments specifically about the series, please visit the Memories of the Happy Hollisters books page.

p.s. - This page is currently being worked on. Eventually, it will contain nearly all of the valid entries that were in the original guestbook. Thank you for your patience as I work on it.



Name:Bitsy
Email:
Where are
you from:
Comments:I love the Happy Hollisters i've read my books 4 times even though i only have about 8
April 8, 2005 20:26:52 (GMT Time)



Name:Patrick
Email:pschmid@clunet.edunospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Thousand Oaks, CA
Comments:I read the series as a child many years ago and loved the mysteries. I recently found three at a yard sale, purchased them and began to read them to my 6 year old son. He loves them...
April 4, 2005 23:12:30 (GMT Time)



Name:Nancy Callister
Email:CallisterR@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Pleasanton, California
Comments:My dad paid for my "Happy Hollisters" book club at the start of my second grade. I have almost all of the books (except the Midnight Troll)with their dust jackets. These books were a wonderful, adventurous comfort. My daughter went on to read them all as well.
March 29, 2005 23:07:39 (GMT Time)



Name:Brendon
Email:brendon@isbin.orgnospam
Where are
you from:
Austin, Texas
Comments:Good site, worth visiting! ;)



Name:kokedesigns.nospam
Email:scottlarsen2@gmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
florida
Comments:thanks! great site
March 22, 2005 07:11:04 (GMT Time)



Name:Lynn Ketelsen
Email:scottlynnk@comcast.netnospamspam
Where are
you from:
Falcon Heights, MN
Comments:Great website! I read all the HH books as a child and LOVED them! Now, my girls read them and enjoy them just as much. I have had great luck finding HH books at Half-Price Books and have about 15 in my collection. I don't collect to resell, just for the personal satisfaction! Keep up the good work! Lynn
March 20, 2005 21:50:51 (GMT Time)



Name:Daniel
Email:d_honzik@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
Wisconsin
Comments:What State is Shoreham in? I am thinking New York. Any ideas?
March 19, 2005 21:12:26 (GMT Time)



Name:Anthony Mingus
Email:amingus@sbcglobal.netnospamspam
Where are
you from:
Oregon
Comments:Grew up in Oregon, now in California. Loved reading the Happy Hollisters growing up in the 60's. I am collecting a whole set for my daughter and future grandchildren. We already have The Hardy Boys and Nacy Drew.
March 17, 2005 05:54:19 (GMT Time)



Name:Roman
Email:roman@wingb.nospam
Where are
you from:
Santa Monica
Comments:Cool guestbook ;)
March 5, 2005 00:31:14 (GMT Time)



Name:Donna Mooney
Email:ddcbmoon@optonline.netnospam
Where are
you from:
New Jersey
Comments:Would like to buy Happy Hollisters books. Are they still in print? I had a few copies from my childhood and my son really likes them.
December 20, 2004 20:51:36 (GMT Time)



Name:Rick Kendall
Email:rickkendall@att.netnospam
Where are
you from:
Westlake, OH
Comments:I remember the books fondly -- my sister's name is Pam and mine is Rick, so it was cool to have our names in the stories. Thanks for the site!
December 16, 2004 15:14:22 (GMT Time)



Name:Brad Hopper
Email:bhopper@mybroadripple.nospam
Where are
you from:
Indianapolis, IN
Comments:I learned to read with The Happy Hollisters while staying with my great-grandparents. I'm now expecting my first child and would love to give him a complete set. If anyone knows of one for sale, please e-mail me.
December 6, 2004 02:30:50 (GMT Time)



Name:Judy Uppman
Email:snickerdoodle958@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
Philadelphia
Comments:The Happy Hollisters were my childhood friends. I spent many hours lost in their adventures. I'd love to share them with my grandchildren. Unfortunately, my books were loaned out and never returned.
December 1, 2004 19:59:22 (GMT Time)



Name:Kathy Quental
Email:kathyq713@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
Yorba Linda, California
Comments:WOW I HAD NOW IDEA THIS SITE EXISTED. I ENJOYED MANY OF THE HAPPY HOLLISTERS AS A CHILD TOO! ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A PART OF THE FAMILY (I WAS AN ONLY CHILD FOR NINE AND A HALF YEARS) NOW THAT I AM ALMOST SIXTY, IT GIVES ME GREAT PLEASURE TO SEE SUCH A SITE. THANKS
November 28, 2004 16:59:45 (GMT Time)



Name:Sandra Havriluk
Email:shavriluk@wesleyanschool.orgnospam
Where are
you from:
Norcross, Georgia
Comments:I stumbled upon this site when looking for Hollisters, the teen clothing store that both my daughters, now 15 and 17, love. I was amazed to find that others experienced the joy of the Happy Hollisters book! Both my daughters read my copy from my childhood and did book reports on it when they were in elementary schools. They asked me often if there were any more books by this author, but I must admit that I never researched to find out. I am definitely going to tell them about this site. Now that this book is part of their nostalgia, I am sure that they will look it up!
November 27, 2004 00:42:29 (GMT Time)



Name:Kelly
Email:kcanizzo@optonline.netnospam
Where are
you from:
New Jersey
Comments:When my grandparents moved from their house to an apartment in the mid 1970's they gave us a trunk full of my aunts'old books. My sister and I read the Happy Hollisters over and over. We don't know what happened to the book collection and we miss it now.
November 24, 2004 01:01:58 (GMT Time)



Name:Jack & Brooke Downer
Email:jdowner@ster-ling.nospam
Where are
you from:
Denver Colorado
Comments:I enjoyed these books very much as a child and now have the pleasure of revisiting them with my daughter in a new light as we enjoy them together.
November 9, 2004 17:18:39 (GMT Time)



Name:Deborah Gabsy
Email:Deborah_Rose@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
New Jersey
Comments:This site is great fun! Having two little girls myself now, I've been thinking about books from my own childhood. I suddenly remembered "The Happy Hollisters" with a smile and as a lark typed it on Google. As I can see, I'm not the only one who loved these books. I devoured every book in the series from about age 8 to 10. I couldn't get enough! It's great that these pages exist for all of us that remember special books to see that there are others who still remember as well. I will definitely encourage my girls to read these books when they're old enough.
October 22, 2004 18:31:59 (GMT Time)



Name:Jon H. Astle
Email:astle2002@msn.nospam
Where are
you from:
Westport, ma.
Comments:I have a childrens fiction screenplay that I would like to get publish as a childrens book. Would you please advise me on a producer name to make contact. Thank you, JON
October 15, 2004 04:26:16 (GMT Time)



Name:Gretchen Blassingame
Email:gretchensb@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
Lyndonville, VT
Comments:I'm glad someone is keeping the H.H.s alive. I loved reading them as a child and hope to get my hands on few editions for my daughter. Thanks!
October 9, 2004 23:54:30 (GMT Time)



Name:Sharon Coats
Email:coats_s@bellsouth.netnospam
Where are
you from:
Louisiana
Comments:I'm 50 years old and when I was about 9 years old my mother signed me up for the Happy Hollisters bookclub. I had to pay the $1.25 or $1.50 per month for the book out of my allowance. This was a pretty big deal as I think I got 75 cents a week for polishing the furniture and such. I loved them then and now I have an 11 year old son who thinks that they're really "keen"! The books are such a cool microcosym of life back then. When my older daughter read them, 10 years ago , she would say the things the kids did were unrealistic and I would tell her, "Not back then!" I remember the world the Hollisters still inhabit.
October 5, 2004 01:44:44 (GMT Time)



Name:Susan Hollister
Email:s.hollister1@comcast.netnospam
Where are
you from:
Lebanon, PA
Comments:When I was a kid it was thrilling to see my own name in print within these books. I don't remember too much about the stories, but I do remember the day in 7th grade when someone stacked my locker with Happy Hollisters books. They all came crashing to the ground as I stood there next to my boyfriend and I wanted the ground to open and swallow me up!
October 4, 2004 23:52:45 (GMT Time)



Name:Laurie
Email:LaurieM@attglobal.netnospam
Where are
you from:
Ossining, New York
Comments:When I went to sign the guestbook, I read an entry written by my brother!("Bix" from Honeye Falls)He covered most of what I was going to say, but I have one thing he doesn't a faithful collie named Zip! For the record ,he still to this day walks around quoting from the books "Yikes and we expected Trolls" holding his head like the caption of Ricky is a favorite.
September 30, 2004 21:16:22 (GMT Time)



Name:Jean Pina
Email:shangenie@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
Maine currently living in Florida
Comments:I love the Happy Holisters. They are life as it should be. In order to get my daughter more interested in reading my Dad (who lives in Maine) and I have been searching for HH books. I have been reading them to my 9 year old and she has been reading them herself. She is starting to see "mysteries" everywhere now. I reember going to this little one room library as a child, where there was very rarely anyone but mom and my sisters and I and reading them. Forget the Hardy Boys, no Nancy Drew... never big on the Bobsey twins... but I read every single HH book at least once. Now I am re-discovering them as my daughter and I read them together on the couch at night. When I read through some of the books that were available for her age group and pushed by the Scholastic Book Club (Captain Underwear?) I realized how much the HH not only provided a good story, but a great sense of values as well...ever notice how nice Pam and Pete are to each other?
September 29, 2004 13:59:22 (GMT Time)



Name:Kathy
Email:itsjustkathy@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
Eau Claire, WI
Comments:Wow!!! I can't belaive this. I guess its been a while since I searched for this. Got to talking about old series and made me think. Haven't had a chance to browse the whole site but this is cool. Only have about 20. Have to find. Thank You
September 28, 2004 22:54:32 (GMT Time)



Name:Tracy
Email:Denverhead@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
Colorado
Comments:What fun to find this site! I loved the Happy Hollisters and am delighted to see so many others who did, as well...thanks for the walk down memory lane
September 28, 2004 17:14:27 (GMT Time)



Name:Lesley Pascucci Wojcik
Email:lesleywojcik@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
Arlington, MA but originally from Nashua, NH
Comments:My third grade teacher, Mrs. Perrault read the Happy Hollisters series to us and we loved it so much. Something reminded me of it in recent years, maybe my love of Mysteries. I thought I'd take a chance and google The Happy Hollisters and lo and behold, there are other people out there who think back on them with warm memories. I'm not crazy afterall. I hope to find some copies of the Happy Hollisters and read them to my daughter some day. Thinking of them reminds me of a kind gentler time and I think we all could use a little of that. Thank you for carrying on the memories. Lesley
September 17, 2004 00:48:38 (GMT Time)



Name:Cheryl Schaumburg
Email:cheryl@richard-cheryl.nospam
Where are
you from:
Butte, Montana
Comments:Just found a bunch of my Happy Hollister books at my mothers house & brought back many happy reading memories!
September 11, 2004 17:36:02 (GMT Time)



Name:Jolean
Email:
Where are
you from:
New York
Comments:I am 27. When my siblings and I were younger, between 10 and 13, our father unboxed his Happy Hollister collection. Perhaps he just wanted us out of his hair, or wanted to pass on something that he enjoyed as a kid, but immediately, I was hooked. I could not wait to finish one to get on to the next. Somewhere, years later, I found out that he got rid of his collection, to our dismay. I am slowly trying to get each one of the set. Your site is awsome!
September 9, 2004 05:14:13 (GMT Time)



Name:Shelli Fergis
Email:johnandshelli@comcast.netnospam
Where are
you from:
Maryland
Comments:You may want to look at this site it has other foreign copies shown. http://treasureoasis.fws1.com/happyhollisters.htm do you know any place other than ebay that sells these books?
August 31, 2004 23:38:40 (GMT Time)



Name:Kathy Harrison
Email:kathy@parrotlover.nospam
Where are
you from:
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Comments:I read these books as a young girl and LOVED them. Much better than Nancy Drew. I'm so glad there others that loved them too!
August 29, 2004 03:16:01 (GMT Time)



Name:Colleen Ann Smith Hossler
Email:colleenann00@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
Madison, IN
Comments:I'm so "happy" to find a site for lovers of the Happy Hollister series. I received my first books as Christmas gifts back in the 50's. Quite a few years ago now, I began searching for other titles. I am up to 29 and, it seems, close to finding all of them. Since my married name "Hossler" is similar to "Hollister" it has crossed my mind that perhaps the similarity of the two subconsciously helped to attract me to my husband since I was so fond of the Happy Hollisters & their happy home life :) Thank you, Rachel, for creating this site!
July 19, 2004 20:44:34 (GMT Time)



Name:SUSAN LEARY
Email:tleary1@san.rr.nospam
Where are
you from:
San Diego, CA
Comments:Had all the books. Read all the books. Am sorry my kids did not get a chance to read them!
July 8, 2004 20:14:02 (GMT Time)



Name:Lynne Amos
Email:clocks0@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
Wray, Colorado
Comments:My mother bought the whole series for me and my 3 siblings in about 1967 or there about. She started out reading them to us...and by the end we were reading them to her. One of my best childhood memories.
June 29, 2004 14:05:55 (GMT Time)



Name:Logan Taulbee
Email:d2taulbee@juno.nospam
Where are
you from:
Gainesville, FL
Comments:My mom read the Happy Hollisters as a kid and I have started to read the ones that she still has. We visited your site to see the list of books in the series and which ones we need to get. Thank you for your information.
June 22, 2004 01:32:15 (GMT Time)



Name:Meganekko
Email:undyingbride@verizon.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Comments:Hello! Lovely site! I was typing something up on a forum adn suddenly The Happy Holisters popped into my mind. I loved these books! I think that they belonged to my mother when I stumbled upon them one day when I was about nine or ten years old. I reread them over and over again. Wonderful books. Lovely website! Keep up the good work =D
June 18, 2004 02:00:37 (GMT Time)



Name:Rosanna Kingsley
Email:rosannak@comcast.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Brockton, MA
Comments:I read the Happy Hollister books when I was growing up in Maine. I recently found some while on vacation in Maryland. I teach 6th grade and one of my students loved the one I brought to school. I would like to be able to purchase more of the series for my class library.
June 8, 2004 22:33:24 (GMT Time)



Name:Lisa
Email:beaubo28@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
Springfield,Il
Comments:I was the 4th of 4 children and began reading at a very early age. I began reading the Happy Hollister series in the 1st grade (we had most of the books since my siblings were all older than I). I found several of the books in a used bookstore here in Springfield and have since introduced the Hollisters to my 9 year old daughter. She has a reading problem, however she has waded through 2 of the books on her own. It has taken her longer than it took me to read the 1st two, but I'm thrilled that she's so captivated!! I also gave Happy Hollister books to all 3 of my siblings and they were thrilled to see their old friends again!I'm excited to have found this site!
June 6, 2004 01:39:19 (GMT Time)



Name:Dennis Knox
Email:dknox@unitedauto.nospam
Where are
you from:
Michigan
Comments:I too read the Hollister backs as a near teenager. Recently on a trip back to our family cottage I cam across a couple of the books and read them. Now in my 40's I am determined to get the complete set. @ more to go.
May 27, 2004 13:58:21 (GMT Time)



Name:Chris Carpenter
Email:chris_carpenter451@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
IOWA
Comments:I was fortunate enough to be a member of the Happy Hollisters Book Club for a time in the early 1970s and I dearly loved these books. Thanks for the wonderful trip down memory lane. Now I want to read the books all over again.
May 26, 2004 20:56:38 (GMT Time)



Name:Dawn
Email:Nyedrummer@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Kokomo, Indiana
Comments:Thanks for your site. It's given me so info I've been looking for. I have about 8 of the Happy Hollisters books. I've enjoyed them & now my young nieces & nephews are too.
May 21, 2004 05:18:33 (GMT Time)



Name:Mary
Email:
Where are
you from:
Burleson, TX
Comments:Rachel, you have done an *excellent* job on this Site! I've so enjoyed my time here reading the wonderful info you have put together. Thank you!
May 20, 2004 06:45:45 (GMT Time)



Name:George
Email:LawryRoad@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Whittier, CA - Searsmont, ME
Comments:I always felt that it took place in Maine. Is Maine the setting for most of the books? Because the area sounds like where I summered and eventually moved to.
May 19, 2004 06:39:00 (GMT Time)



Name:Chee Chee
Email:slowhandgroupie@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
S Georgia, USA
Comments:I am so excited to come across the HH websites that I have found. I have about 15 HH books that I read 40 years ago. They were my fave and I could not read them fast enough. I read them over and over.
May 19, 2004 00:31:16 (GMT Time)



Name:Corinne Mc Kee
Email:cmc818@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
Montreal
Comments:These books were my favourite books growing up. I can remembeer waiting quite impatiently for the mailman to bring me the next edition. My daughter has now discovered these books and is now hooked on them as well.
May 17, 2004 04:32:26 (GMT Time)



Name:Oriole Adams
Email:orioleadams@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Birmingham, Michigan
Comments:I was a voracious reader as a child, and when I discovered the Happy Hollisters series at the library, I was hooked! I loved mysteries, and also read Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys and the Bobbsey Twins, but the Hollisters were my favorite. I can remember many a rainy day during summer vacation (in the early 1970s) when there was nothing else to do, so I'd curl up with a Hollister mystery or two. The dark skies and thunder outside only added to the eerieness of the mystery I was reading!
May 17, 2004 00:59:11 (GMT Time)



Name:Sharon Noland
Email:aniproh@wtrt.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Hereford, TX
Comments:I loved the Happy Hollisters books growing up! I ran across one at a garage sale a few summers ago, but didn't buy it. I am kicking myself for not getting it. I know I will buy them if I ever run across any again! They are a priceless memory from my childhood!
May 10, 2004 19:33:16 (GMT Time)



Name:MiKi LeHew
Email:mikileh@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Belleview Florida
Comments:I am 36 and I grew up reading these books. We had the whole set at one time, but with the many moves they were lost. I have been recently given a set and I now own 25 different Happy Hollister books. I still love to read them.
May 9, 2004 14:15:06 (GMT Time)



Name:Katie Morgan
Email:
Where are
you from:
Woodbridge, VA
Comments:I believe it was my grandfather that got us the subscription to H.H. I must have been 8 or 9 when the first one arrived. I LOVED those books!!! Funny that every time someone's talked about their love of Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys, I'd pipe in with a comment about the Hollisters. All I'd get were puzzled stares... I'm just now starting to put a set together. Have no idea whatever happened to the ones my brothers and I read all those years ago.
May 3, 2004 19:34:28 (GMT Time)



Name:Richard C. Petryk
Email:richpet@earthlink.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Florida
Comments:I grew up with these books and recently found my collection packed by my mother in a closet in my house. Boy does that bring back many happy memories.
April 14, 2004 01:40:14 (GMT Time)



Name:Sheri Lee
Email:sherilee59@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
St Cloud, Florida
Comments:In 1965-66 my mother joined me in a Happy Hollister book club. I had a reading disability and she thought a book club would help. I learned to read and LOVE IT! I have 26 of the Happy Hollister books and can remember reading them over and over. I kept them, thinking maybe someday my children or grandchildren would read them. That never happened, however, I am grateful that I hung on to the books. Memories!
April 11, 2004 21:11:35 (GMT Time)



Name:Shanna Osborne
Email:slo0105@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Alexandria, KY
Comments:I was (and still am) an avid reader. My babysitter had the entire collection of Happy Hollister books as well as Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries series. It took me several summers, but I read every one of those books. To this day, I love a good mystery!
April 7, 2004 19:31:35 (GMT Time)



Name:Randy
Email:istle@geusnet.nospam
Where are
you from:
Northeast Texas
Comments:I am trying to figure out just what is the distingushing factor that tells whether or not any of the H.H. books is a "First Edition". Is there any way to tell? I know some of them have it marked inside the one first few pages. I have heard that if there is a list of books published so far on one of the first few pages that that means it is a first edition. Is that true? I would like to collect a complete set of first editions but I'm not certian how to tell if they are, indeed, first editions. So far I have read 22 books in the series and am currently reading # 23. I wish I could have known about these books when I was a kid. I am 50 years old and only learned about them a few months ago.
April 3, 2004 16:29:29 (GMT Time)



Name:TERRI
Email:TMPCOUGAR@AOL.nospam
Where are
you from:
BAYSIDE, NY
Comments:I remember hating to read, but I read the whole series as a kid. They were the best mystery books.
March 29, 2004 18:42:40 (GMT Time)



Name:Laura
Email:
Where are
you from:
Pennsylvania
Comments:I'm the librarian at my church, and we have 13 of the Happy Hollisters books in our collection. I had never heard of them, but thanks to your website, I know that there's quite a following for them! It's really neat that you have produced this website as a labor of love for these books. I'm going to see if any of the titles we have are on your wish list -- you may be hearing from me!
March 19, 2004 13:05:41 (GMT Time)



Name:Chloe Nakagawa
Email:simplyvintage@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
California
Comments:I loved reading the Happy Hollisters as as kid.
March 18, 2004 12:54:10 (GMT Time)



Name:Ann
Email:ADRN4KIDS@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Oklahoma
Comments:I had 2 of the HH books as a child--the first one, and the Haunted House Mystery. I read them over and over. I share the sentiments on these pages, these books are a big reason that I'm such an avid reader now. The sad (and embarrassing) thing is that I thought they were only the 2 HH books. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized there was an entire series! Poor me! Needless to say, I'm slowly but surely acquiring them all. Happy reading everyone! Read, read, read to your kids, you'll never regret it! Thanks for the fun website!
March 17, 2004 20:20:31 (GMT Time)



Name:Jill Pirk
Email:jillpirk@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
Milwauke, WI/Eagle River, WI
Comments:My grandma read this series to my mom who saved them for me and my 4 siblings. My dad would read us all a chapter a night. I love these books. I am currently trying to complete our collection. ebay is a great resource!
March 11, 2004 21:01:54 (GMT Time)



Name:BILL HOLLISTER (YES THAT IS MY REAL NAME)
Email:SUPERPARTS1@HOTMAIL.nospam
Where are
you from:
FREEPORT, IL
Comments:THIS IS THE BEST SERIES OF BOOKS. I READ THE WHOLE SERIES WHEN I WAS A KID AND LOVED IT. IF ANYONE KNOWS OF ANY OF THE BOOKS FOR SALE, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN PURCHASING THEM.
March 10, 2004 15:57:08 (GMT Time)



Name:Cyndy Storm
Email:stormgeer@earthlink.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Columbia, South Carolina
Comments:I grew up reading the Happy Hollister books in Antigo, Wisconsin and I bought several of the books for $1.50 each. About 15 years ago, I started collecting the books and this was pre-Internet so I advertised in some antiques newsletters and soon had responses from around the country. A local used book seller helped me complete my collection and I have two copies of most of the books. I still like to sit down and relax with the books and of course, I am Pam,, although I could never get my "fluffy golden hair" to look as good as hers. The HH books got me interested in traveling to some of the same places that the HH's visited.
March 7, 2004 03:57:20 (GMT Time)



Name:The Slachter Family
Email:amyscraps@juno.nospam
Where are
you from:
Grand Rapids, MI
Comments:We bought a set of 18 volumes (including the Midnight Trolls) at a garage sale for $9. We love reading them with our 7 year old twins. We can't wait to complete our collection! Crickets! The Hollisters are great!!
Febuary 19, 2004 00:51:05 (GMT Time)



Name:Lisa
Email:
Where are
you from:
Chesterfield, Virginia
Comments:I loved the Happy Hollisters as a kid and read as many of the books as I could get my hands on. I finally was able to complete my set this past year with a copy of Midnight Trolls. I was thrilled to find this site and others that loved the Hollisters as much as I did. My friends around here had never heard of The Happy Hollisters. What a sad childhood not to have had that experience!
Febuary 16, 2004 16:16:38 (GMT Time)



Name:Mark
Email:
Where are
you from:
Leeds, England
Comments:I was amazed to find your site after a bout of nostalgia reminded me, in a recent conversation, of the hours of enjoyment the Happy Hollister books gave me as a child. Over the years, in discussions with friends about books which have influenced our lives, I have often amused others by rating this series higher than everything else I read - even Tolkein and Tolstoy are forced lower down the scale! I exhausted the stock of books in our local library, which I'm sure ran to far fewer than the 33 books I now learn are in the series. They not only encouraged me to read, but introduced me to a wholly different world and culture. As others have commented, these books also introduced me to travel and other countries. I can still vividly remember their trip to Copenhagen and the "Little Mermaid". I have yet to visit America, but suspect that the image I have long held of your country would not now be recognisable.
Febuary 8, 2004 20:38:38 (GMT Time)



Name:Inky
Email:
Where are
you from:
7 Church St. in Bloomfield, originally
Comments:Eileen (#5) and I (#6) are Sue. All the Hollister kids now live in the East or South (02/04/04). Many family members/grandchildren are involved in the arts, music and media. We all love the water; boating, swimming. Pam became a housewife, involved with family. Pete and Rick each went into the book business - marketing, advertising or sales. Rick owned The Intimate Bookshops. Holly grew up to become a Nurse. 1/2 of Sue is a fabulous teacher; 1/2 of Sue is an administrative assistant. From time to time we visit the Hollister websites. Our Dad and Mom were the best!! The bits and pieces of story plots we collectively know would tickle your fancy... Dad was notarious for injecting rye humor into the pages by "immortalizing" those who deserved it. Roy Tinker worked as a handyman in my Grandfather's plummers store in Newark, NJ when Andrew Svenson was just a kid. Roy was a little slow (a bit challenged) but Andrew thought he was a really nice guy. Look for Roy in the books...
Rachel's response - Part of the reason I don't have an email attached to this particular website, is the amount of spam I've recieved in my WedFrugal and GetFrugal mailboxes due to email harvesting bots. Despite that, I found one way to help cut down on a lot of it and if anyone (family of Andrew Svenson or otherwise) would like to email me, you can now reach me here, as the address is hidden from most harvesters. I'll be adding it to the pages soon.



Name:Demetrius
Email:ae7641@wayne.edunospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Michigan
Comments:I remember getting the Happy Hollister books through the mail as a kid. For parents and the book company to help with children's reading is a really great, Nobel prize worthy thing. Funny how I liked stories that were more realistic or ones we could relate to (all kids are curious like the Hollister children) than others.
Febuary 4, 2004 21:18:52 (GMT Time)



Name:Janice Cook
Email:janiceecook@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
Louisville, KY via Portland, OR
Comments:Oh! How I love the Hollisters! Thanks so much, Rachel, for this fun site! Janice
January 28, 2004 01:46:01 (GMT Time)



Name:Joseph S. Cebula
Email:sequoiahiker@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
California
Comments:Simply: There is not room here--or perhaps I lack the capacity--to express the hours of pleasure and escape those books provided me growing up. I had always hope to find Pam someday and marry her ...alas, I did not (but I do have three cats :) How wonderful to stumble upon this sight dedicated to those wonderful times. Thank you.
January 21, 2004 23:44:13 (GMT Time)



Name:Lisa W.
Email:hellolisa66@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
California
Comments:Wow, this is great! I thought I was the only one who knew (or liked) the Happy Hollisters. Long live Joey Brill!
January 8, 2004 18:38:06 (GMT Time)



Name:Mara
Email:mbaer@t6wireless.nospam
Where are
you from:
Belvidere,Illinois
Comments:As my husband and I travel around we stop at many antique malls. I am buying back my baby boomer childhood, which consists of Tiny Tears, Ginny dolls and Happy Hollister books. I don't remember how I got them as I was growing up, but I remembered the red bindings. I pick most up at these antique malls from $8-$12 a book. I only buy the red ones with dust jackets. That is the reason I passed on 'Midnight Trolls" last month and because I had not yet checked out this page to find that it is a special edition. It had the picture as a part of the hard cover, not a dust jacket. And so I passed it up...Yikes!! (as Ricky would say). I saw it at the Hen's Nest Antique Mall off I75 in Ocala Florida. If anyone is in that area, and you want to investigate, maybe it is still there. Good Travels.
January 1, 2004 17:16:56 (GMT Time)



Name:Bobbe Granmoe
Email:bobbeg48@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Duluth, MN
Comments:When I was a young girl, every time we went downtown to shop (no malls) my mom would let me purchase a new Happy Hollister books as my reward for being good. Trips downtown with her were a huge deal..shopping with mom at the big department stores. I read and re-read my books (I believe I have 8) and were read and loved by my 21 year old when she was young...can no pass down to grandchildren..but would love to purchase the rest of the set.
December 25, 2003 13:18:28 (GMT Time)



Name:Susan Roebuck
Email:sroe0906@comcast.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Germantown, MD
Comments:I read and reread my Happy Hollister books over and over again! Unfortunately, due to flooding at my parents house years ago, I lost all my books. I would love to find these books to have again!
December 21, 2003 22:09:33 (GMT Time)



Name:Bill Simpson
Email:prwlwolf@rochester.rr.nospam
Where are
you from:
Rochester, NY
Comments:I read and reread all the happy hollister books we had as a kid. I loved them. I think I even reread then until 5th or 6th grade. I wish they would be reprinted for another generation. The family could follow Disney's pattern and only release so many every 5 to 10 years.
December 13, 2003 07:08:54 (GMT Time)



Name:Kim R.
Email:kimr@usinternet.nospam
Where are
you from:
San Francisco, CA
Comments:I found my box of Happy Hollister books. I have 28 of them including 2 first editions. And all have dust jackets except one (which I loaned to my little sister...I remember :-)... I believe that the Merry-Go-Round book is number 10 and Pony Hill Farm is number 11, both from the comment you mention in your listing and Merry Go Round was published in 1955 and Pony Hill Farm 1956. So, that is cleared up. Know a good place to find the remaining books that I'm missing? Thanks again, Kim
December 13, 2003 07:06:16 (GMT Time)



Name:Kim R.
Email:kimr@usinternet.nospam
Where are
you from:
San Francisco, California
Comments:I grew up on these books and loved them. Now my niece is 11 and I'm having a tough time just giving them to her. Didn't know I'd be that attached to the books, but I've managed to keep them all these years, even though my mom and sisters gave away all their childhood books a long time ago. That's how I found your website, looking for a way to buy a couple for my niece to read. Now I've been reading everyone's comments from several websites and reliving the stories one more time. Thanks for all your efforts in putting up this website. It's truly amazing! I can't wait to go open my box of books to see how many of them I have.
December 13, 2003 04:10:46 (GMT Time)



Name:Veronica Martinez
Email:Vmedinamartinez@Hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
Hammond, Indiana
Comments:I feel as though my life has made a full circle with my discovery of this web site. I have cared for my Happy Hollister books for the past 35 years. I knew there had to be other Happy Hollister fans out there. The purchase of these books at the age of 9 began my love for books and my love for reading.
December 10, 2003 01:17:00 (GMT Time)



Name:faye kimbell
Email:alicefayekimbell@aol.nospam.
Where are
you from:
pueblo,colorado
Comments:the happy hollisters made my life quite happy as a child. I would very much love to have a copy of my own. I read mine at a public library but it started me on my way to becoming a reader and a learner.
December 9, 2003 00:08:21 (GMT Time)



Name:Cheryl
Email:N/A
Where are
you from:
Westland,MI
Comments:Ever since I was little, I used to read my brother Bob's Happy Holister books (which he never read), but my mother told me not to read them because they were "his books".I have introduced them to my daughter & she loves them.She always begs me to buy more (as I did when I was her age, but never got any).
November 26, 2003 03:56:03 (GMT Time)



Name:Elizabeth G. Martin-Greist
Email:degreist@juno.nospam
Where are
you from:
Georgia
Comments:I've loved Happy Hollisters since I was little. I have collected 2 sets of books for my children and am trying for 5 more for nieces & nephew. I like knowing that there are more out there that still enjoy them.
November 24, 2003 22:20:16 (GMT Time)



Name:Todd
Email:tblackwell@concretefence.nospam
Where are
you from:
Louisiana
Comments:I discovered the Happy Hollisters when I was about 8 years old in our school library. That was close to 30 years ago and I had not thought of those books until recently when I decided to look for the books for my children. Great memories and the beginning of a love of reading. Thanks for putting such a great effort into your site.
November 17, 2003 05:56:11 (GMT Time)



Name:Peter Gilbertson
Email:mbag@integrity.nospam
Where are
you from:
Wilmette, Il
Comments:Our family likes the Hollisters but doesn't like the brillish Joey Brill.
November 10, 2003 22:38:04 (GMT Time)



Name:Rick Ricky
Email:micros50@computer.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
New York
Comments:Hey, like this site grooves. I used to dig the Hollisters as a kid and yep, all grown up I still dig em today. Yeah, in many ways the Hollister were square but at the same time they were a happening bunch with good attitudes and a keen sense for fun and adventure. That definately made up for and squareness. Now dig this, In one of the books all the Hollisters toys and stuff gets ripped off when they move to their new pad and they find that this real wigged out cat with a funny red hat named Bo Stenkel is like ransacking their pad and snooping around and stuff like that. Funny thing is a good friend and business partner of mine is named "Bo Stenkel" but he scribes his name "Beau Stenkle". One day as a goof I showed him that Hollister book and asked him why he heisted the hollisters toys. Of course he flipped out over it in a good sort of way. he read the book during his lunch break and now he wants to find them so his kids could read them. The reason I dug the hollisters so much i
November 6, 2003 03:42:49 (GMT Time)



Name:Carolyn
Email:rccapps@knology.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Evans
Comments:My mother's brother read The Happy Hollisters when he was a boy and he past them on to my mother.Then she past them on to me. I am 7 and I have only read the second one and I liked it.
November 3, 2003 00:36:39 (GMT Time)



Name:jennifer bridges
Email:mobydick55105@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
minneapolis Minnesota
Comments:My mother read The Happy Hollister books when she was a girl, and my grandparents still have the books on their shelves, so I read them too when I was young. I'm thirty now and am starting a collection of my own.
October 22, 2003 20:20:56 (GMT Time)



Name:Steve Curry
Email:sdc2037@bigpond.netnospamnospam.au
Where are
you from:
Sydney, Australia
Comments:My family were definitely not big on books when I was young, so it's a mystery how I found a copy of "The Happy Hollisters" at home in 1963.I think it was the only book I read until high school, but it made such an impression on me that from the age of 30 on, whenever I passed a bookshop in Sydney I always tried to find the ellusive book. Even when I was in the US with my kids in 1999 I was not able to procure a copy. Through the Net in 2000 I did manage to track down a book seller in Arizona with a near mint copy. It cost me A$75 to get it sent to Australia but my quest is now over. It holds centre stage in my bookshelf.
October 19, 2003 02:46:43 (GMT Time)



Name:Rick
Email:
Where are
you from:
Spain
Comments:I like this books, are very nice. I had read them when I was a children, but I like yet. I had ten books at least in spanish language, but today I only have two. Saludos a toda la familia Hollister.
October 19, 2003 00:57:07 (GMT Time)



Name:Jack Patterson
Email:jack@jackpatterson.nospam
Where are
you from:
Denver, CO
Comments:Read Happy Hollister books when I was 12 years old (38 years ago). They still remain some of my fondest memories of growing up. I received a book a month (through some club I suppose) and couldn't wait for the next one to come. Ususally read the whole book the day I got it. Thanks for the site! Jack
October 16, 2003 19:04:23 (GMT Time)



Name:Robert Bell
Email:roebell@charter.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
San Bernardino, Ca
Comments:My parents signed me up for the Happy Hollister Book Club through Double Day Books when I was a child. I still have the first 28( all that I received). The series sparked a life long love of reading and imagining.
October 13, 2003 01:03:07 (GMT Time)



Name:Barbara Pendleton
Email:PKUJayhawk@msn.nospam
Where are
you from:
Ft. Meade, MD
Comments:Just had to visit your site because my six-year-old daughter is now reading Happy Hollisters. She and my husband of them have a great time scouting out Happy Hollister books at used books stores! Thanks for the additional info--I know my family will enjoy it!
October 9, 2003 01:29:48 (GMT Time)



Name:Analía
Email:turrita2@hotmail.nospam
Where are
you from:
Argentina
Comments:Hello from Argentina!! I'm a realy fan of The Happy Hollister and you come me back to my childhood whit your website. sorry for my English. And thank's Whith love Analía (all my friends call me Ann like Ann Hunter:)) )
October 1, 2003 18:34:05 (GMT Time)



Name:Kate Duty
Email:shestandsalone@msn.nospam
Where are
you from:
Ada, OK
Comments:Hi, I AM ONLY 12!!! I first picked up a Happy Holister book at my grandmas house and I loved them ever since! I asked my g-ma if I could borrow them, and I read them all. I check them out at the local libray! Love, Kate
September 30, 2003 02:35:38 (GMT Time)



Name:John Pocchiari
Email:
Where are
you from:
Butler, PA
Comments:I grew up reading The Happy Hollisters along with my brother and sisters. Since finding your web site we have a renewed interest in collecting every title. I teach third grade and read at least two Happy Hollister books to my students per year. The books are just full of fun and adventure as well as teaching values such as kindness, honesty, and family togetherness. I'm on my way after school today to the local public library which is discarding some Happy Hollister books. The tip came from our school librarian. Thanks for your web site.
September 2, 2003 15:00:46 (GMT Time)



Name:Elizabeth Pocchiari
Email:pocchiari@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
Butler Pennsylvania
Comments:When my brothers and sister were young our Grandmother used to read the Hollisters with us during Summer vacation. I think she loved them as much as we did! She was always worried about what Joey Brill was going to do. I am glad that you fullfilled your childhood dreams by creating this web site.
August 26, 2003 18:26:14 (GMT Time)



Name:liz
Email:
Where are
you from:
nowhere
Comments:nice site
August 19, 2003 19:39:04 (GMT Time)



Name:Lori
Email:proulla@nu.nospam
Where are
you from:
New Hampshire
Comments:These books made me the reader I am today and I hope to pass this on to my daughter, Anna. I still have most of them and I am always looking out for the ones missing from the collection.
August 18, 2003 18:02:54 (GMT Time)



Name:Leah Holman
Email:MsLeah2U@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Lakeland, FL by way of Tiffin, Ohio
Comments:I loved the Happy Hollisters as a child. My neighbor had a set of them & I spent one summer reading every one of them (that she had). I'm now introducing them to my grand daughter in hopes that these books will help her love reading.
August 18, 2003 03:09:58 (GMT Time)



Name:Donna Belden
Email:classicloma@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Missouri
Comments:I began collecting The Happy Hollisters thru a monthly book club. For several years, I have considered just dumping my books in a garage sale. I'm so glad I discoved E-Bay and this site!! I am missing 6 books, 4 of which will be inexpensive to obtain. It's the last 2 in the series that is tough!! I nearly read the words off the pages, and I plan to start rereading them again! I think I began getting the books about 1967, and I was surprised to see they are in decent shape!!
August 6, 2003 03:05:46 (GMT Time)



Name:Rick
Email:
Where are
you from:
Toronto Canada
Comments:I too like many of the other writers grew up with the Hollisters.As a seven year old the books were exciting and you just didn't want to put them down.By chance a year ago while at a flea market I happened along twenty three of the series books in mint condition.I now have great fun rereading these great books with my daughter.In this day and age of technology the simple things like these books still bring a smile to your face and a retreat to our younger years and simplier times.
July 24, 2003 05:31:55 (GMT Time)



Name:Davey
Email:daveym4964@wmconnect.nospam
Where are
you from:
Alabama
Comments:Hi All, Just wanted to say that i love these wonderful books. Its a shame they havent did a reprint of the entire series because the originals can be very hard to find or very expensive. I have 32 books and i need Mystery of the Midnight Trolls to complete my collection. The prices on E-bay are high for this one! I'm not really a collector so things like mint condition and dust jackets are not really that important, i just love having these books to read and enjoy and pass on to my kids someday. Keep up the great work on this site!
July 22, 2003 19:50:38 (GMT Time)



Name:Jennifer and Will Bost
Email:jennybost@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Cornelius, N.C.
Comments:My son Will and I were so excited to find your web page. We are on our fourth Happy Hollister's book, and I just found our fifth book, which your site let me know is the first book in the series! Thank you for creating this wonderful site! The four books I have are from my childhood, and it has been so much fun re-reading them to my son. It has truly given us a common interest since I have a hard time relating to power rangers! In fact we are presently at Kiawah Island, and it is pouring rain, so when we finish "the mystery at missile town" we are headed into Charleston to search for the other 28 titles we don't have! We learned from your web site today how many titles we were missing. We want to collect the whole series! Thank you for your help! HH fans, Jennifer & Will Bost
July 14, 2003 15:57:18 (GMT Time)



Name:Hannah Woolf
Email:
Where are
you from:
Sudbury, MA
Comments:These books are ecxiting. Unexpected things happen. They have good endings.
July 13, 2003 20:46:46 (GMT Time)



Name:Billy McDaniel
Email:wcm618@bellsouth.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
Mascot, Tennessee
Comments:When I was 7, I got something in the mail to join a Happy Hollister book club where I would get a new book (I think) every other month for $2.00. I joined without my mom and dad knowing. It was my job to get the mail and so when I would get a book, I would hide it in the bushes beside the porch and later retrieve it. I had a collection of 10 books before they knew it. I wasn't paying for them but they kept sending them. Eventually, my mom found the books. She and my dad then realized why they were getting a billing statement from a book publisher. This is when they realized that I liked to read and they bought me my own set of World Book encyclopedia. Only today do I realize the investment that they made in me. The Happy Hollister books helped stir my creative mind and the locations and scenes that I created for each chapter have always been ideallic places to live. As I travel today, in some of the back roads and small towns I expect to see Pete, Pam, Ricky, Holly, or Sue pl
June 26, 2003 17:50:59 (GMT Time)



Name:Julie
Email:
Where are
you from:
Tucson, AZ
Comments:Reading the Happy Hollisters books are one of my favorite memories growing up. We moved from air base to air base and the one thing that would make me feel at home in our new place would be putting my HH books on the bookshelf in my room and that brought a comforting feeling and sense of "home" to me.
June 24, 2003 20:02:35 (GMT Time)



Name:Janelle Barham
Email:barhamfam@gbronline.nospam
Where are
you from:
Joplin, MO
Comments:I loved these books when I was young. I introduced them to my daughter but I sure wish they were easier to find. We have some in the Public Library but not near all of them.
June 5, 2003 02:39:00 (GMT Time)



Name:Melissa
Email:tryingmypatience@yahoo.nospam
Where are
you from:
Mount Airy MD
Comments:I used to sign these out of the Ballston Spa NY library - I knew just where they were on the shelf and would head there and stay there until my mom got me - usually an hours later. When my kids started reading I started thinking about the series again and was sad not to see it on the library shelves here in MD.
May 28, 2003 17:49:34 (GMT Time)



Name:j. underwood
Email:d.underwood@snet.netnospamnospam
Where are
you from:
connecticut
Comments:This is a wonderful websit. I have been looking for these books. Thank you.
May 24, 2003 15:57:40 (GMT Time)



Name:Betsy Trask
Email:Traske@worc.k12.ma.us
Where are
you from:
Sutton,MA.
Comments:Came across my books in the attic while I was trying to unclutter my life. They brought back many happy memories and when I retire from teaching this Fall , I hope to have time to reread them again.
May 2, 2003 16:26:51 (GMT Time)



Name:Coleen Wilsdon
Email:mswcdw@shianet.orgnospam
Where are
you from:
Durand ,MI
Comments:hi, i guess we are cousins. my grandma was marge svenson mungle, andrew's sister. my mom happened to have a copy of the happy hollisters when i was growing up and of course i remember him being mentioned in a tv guide article back when hardy boys/nancy drew was on. just did a search and was happy to find this. thought i'd say hi!
April 30, 2003 01:48:34 (GMT Time)



Name:Tim O'Herin
Email:booksleuth@aol.nospam
Where are
you from:
Oklahoma City, OK
Comments:Great site to visit and reminisce about the Happy Hollisters! Looking forward to future updates.
March 2, 2003 15:54:21 (GMT Time)

Rachel's comment (April 2005) - Please visit Tim at http://hometown.aol.com/booksleuth/myhomepage/. He's a great guy, who I spoke with years ago and he has some information on The Happy Hollisters as well as Stratemyer Syndicate. Please be sure to check out his correspondance with Mr. Svenson, which can be found at http://hometown.aol.com/booksleuth/index.html.

Name:Rachel Sanfordlyn Shreckengast
Email:
Where are
you from:
Poconos, PA
Comments:Welcome to Happy-Hollisters.com. I hope you enjoy your stay!
Febuary 28, 2003 11:16:23 (GMT Time)



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