{"product_id":"2940157499402","title":"The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island (Illustrated Edition)","description":"The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans was a popular children's book series of the early 20th century credited to \"Arthur M. Winfield\", a pseudonym for Edward Stratemeyer. A total of 30 titles were published between 1899 and 1926 and the books remained in print for years forward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe original Rover Boys were brothers Tom, Sam, and Dick Rover. Their children (Fred, son of Sam Rover; Jack, son of Dick; Andy and Randy, twin sons of Tom) took over in the \"Second Series\" which began with Volume 21 The Rover Boys at Colby Hall, published in 1917. The elder Rovers continued making appearances in the second series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition, there was a related Putnam Hall series of six books that featured other characters from the first Rovers series although the Rovers themselves do not appear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Rovers were students at a military boarding school: adventurous, prank-playing, flirtatious, and often unchaperoned adolescents who were constantly getting into mischief and running afoul of authority figures as well as criminals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe series often incorporated emerging technology of the era, such as the automobile, airplanes (The Rover Boys in the Air) and news events, such as World War I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike other juvenile fiction of the era, the books often utilized exaggerated ethnic stereotypes and dialect humor. Blacks, Germans, Italians, Chinese, and Irishmen were often portrayed with unflattering dialects, which was common at the time. The books also had many heroic characters of these nationalities as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of the book contains the original four illustrations, rejuvenated, and six additional, full-color illustrations of the wilderness that are unique to this edition of the book.","brand":"New York: Grosset \u0026 Dunlap, Publishers, 1918","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083953488112,"sku":"2940157499402","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157499402_p0.jpg?v=1764109256","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157499402","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}