Margot Pardoe supervision; as in Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons series", these often take place in a rural setting. However, there are some differences which set Pardoe's books, and the "Bunkle" series in particular, apart. The children do not live in a vacuum; unlike Blyton's St Clare's series, World War II is mentioned (with the associated inconveniences of rationing and black-out), and the children also age. Bunkle is ten when the first book starts and ages gradually until the last but one volume, before returning to his original age in the last adventure which is hard to find owing to a short
George S. Elrick Glenview. They had 2 children, Michael and Bruce. In the mid 50's, he was employed by the Jacoby Advertising Agency as a Writer. In the 60's, he was employed by Wilding Studios, and wrote television scrips for the Wild Kingdom series. In the mid 60's, he wrote storybooks and maps for the "General Whitman's Adventure" series. He was also the author of dozens of children's books from the Whitman "Big Little Books" series from the mid 60's until the early 80's. Towards the end of his career, he even wrote a science fiction handbook that was a tutorial used in