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The Bobbsey Twins
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A long-running series ghostwritten under the pen name of Laura Lee Hope by the Stratemeyer Syndicate which follows the Bobbsey Family, composed of two sets of fraternal twins and their parents. Bert and Nan are the older dark-haired set of twins and Freddie and Flossie are the younger blonde twins. When the first book was written and set in 1903, Bert and Nan were eight years old and Freddie and Flossie four. Seventy-two volumes later, the last book was written and set in 1979 with Bert and Nan having aged to 12 and Freddie and Flossie aged to 6.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Primary characters: Mr. Richard Bobbsey - owner of a lumber yard in Lakeport. Mrs. Mary Bobbsey - his wife. Nan Bobbsey - their elder daughter, Bert's twin. Bert Bobbsey - their elder son, Nan's twin. Freddie Bobbsey - their younger son, Flossie's twin. Flossie Bobbsey - their younger daughter, Freddie's twin.Secondary characters: Dinah Johnson - the Bobbseys' black cook, Sam's wife. Sam Johnson - the Bobbseys' man of all work, Dinah's husband. Snoop - the Bobbseys' cat, originally a stray kitten befriended and adopted by Freddie. Snap - the Bobbseys' first and oldest dog, a retired circus dog. Waggo - The Bobbseys' second dog, a highly energetic foxterrier. Danny Rugg - a "bad boy." | |
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Ambiguous Gender: Snoop the cat. One of the more curious parts of the Continuity Drift/Continuity Snarl mentioned below, possibly a case of Writer Gender Confusion, is that Snoop tends to change genders between books. The cat is definitely a male in the first four books, but has suddenly and without explanation become female in the fifth book. In subsequent books the cat switches between being male and female; at one point even switching from male to female within the course of one book, without anyone except the readers noticing. | |
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Flossie and Freddie, especially in earlier books, tend to refer to Snoop as "our cat Snoop" or even "our black cat Snoop" when referring to him to the other members of the family, who should very well know that Snoop is a cat and that he's black. Might be justified in this instance, though, as Flossie and Freddie are small children — it may very well make sense to them to talk like this. | |
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As You Know: A peculiar version, as the narrator text sometimes repeats information that the audience already knows, providing recaps of information that happened earlier in the same book. It's especially blatant in the cases of Snoop and Snap — whenever they appear on-page and haven't been mentioned for a while, the narrator almost always makes sure to inform the audiences that they are, in fact, a cat and a dog. Flossie and Freddie, especially in earlier books, tend to refer to Snoop as "our cat Snoop" or even "our black cat Snoop" when referring to him to the other members of the family, who should very well know that Snoop is a cat and that he's black. Might be justified in this instance, though, as Flossie and Freddie are small children — it may very well make sense to them to talk like this. | |
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