Today we tell about Charles M.Schulz who wrote and drew the newspaper comic strip "Peanuts" for half a century.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

The strong,clear images he drew and painted matched the wild, developing and proud United States of the late eighteen hundreds.

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On the large paper surfaces he pieced together, he drew pictures using colors he made from crushed pencils and crayons.

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Susan Larson reads a scene from Nancy Drew's first adventure, "The Secret of the Old Clock": "Nancy struggled to get away.

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These include more recent ones such as "Nancy Drew on Campus" in which Nancy is a college student.

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Our subject this week is the teenage investigator in one of the most successful children's book series of all time Nancy Drew.

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She was twenty-four when she wrote "The Secret of the Old Clock" and other early Nancy Drew books.

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But that did not mean all the women involved with Nancy Drew agreed on how she should act.

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Publisher Simon and Schuster says it has sold two hundred million copies of Nancy Drew books in twenty-five languages around the world.

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Over the years, Nancy Drew has appeared in movies and television shows, but without very much success.

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A few years later, he drew pictures for the first "Little Bear" books, written by Else Minarik.

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Who is Nancy Drew? She is a teenager whose mother died when she was very young.

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Susan was about ten years old, growing up in the Midwest, when she discovered Nancy Drew.

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Another engineer, Drew Heckathorn, did not go to Africa but worked on parts of the project.

VOA: special.2009.02.16