Series
Among the many books of the Lucile Clarke Memorial Children's Library are a large number of series books. As the name implies, series books take a single set of characters through a variety of adventures published in many volumes. Series books are often written for a particular audience of young readers. Boys and girls, pre-teens and adolescents, children interested in specific topics, are all targets of particular series books.
Series books often play an important role in the development of reading skills among children. Fascinated by the characters and the stories, children devour book after book, incidentally increasing overall reading proficiency.
A large number of series books are found in the library. The series range from the Bobbsey Twins to Chery Ames, as well as forgotten volumes from series where one book has become famous. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, for example, is justly famed, but few today remember that The Wizard spawned thirty-nine sequels. Baum wrote thirteen personally. After his death, Ruth Plumly Thompson wrote the vast majority of the Oz books that followed, eventually publishing nineteen additional titles. Until the 1940s, a new Oz book appeared most years. The last sequel was published in 1963.