Talk:Meg Duncan

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This is my first new article. I re-read all 6 books and took notes so I could reference which book told what about the characters.

A couple of web sites seemed to indicate that Gladys Baker Bond wrote all 6 Meg books, but when I found her in a 1981 author's reference book only the first Meg book, The Disappearing Diamonds, was credited to her. I hope I'm not considered to be putting in my opinion or slanting the article when I list minor discrepancies and say it's probable more than one author wrote the last 5 Megs.

If anyone knows who wrote the other Megs, or has any additonal information, please add on to the article. I came upon this series as an adult, and became a fan of Meg's adventures. Since the books have been printed in three different formats I figured she was notable enough to rate her own Wikipedia article. --Karenthewriter (talk) 17:59, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

More Research

I was able to obtain a copy of Schoolgirl, Shamuses, Inc., a small press book on the Whitman book series Trixie Belden, Ginny Gordon, Robin Kane, and Meg Duncan.

Schoolgirl Shamuses, Inc. states that James D. Keeline believes Gladys Baker Bond wrote all of the Meg books, based on entries in the Library of Congress, & the CD-ROM database Children's Reference Plus. I don't have access to those resources, so I can't say if they contain valid information.

The reference book author received a letter from Whitman editor William Larson, who proofread most of the Robin Kane and Meg Duncan books. He stated that Dee Haas a/k/a/ Dorothy Haas developed the Meg books. Larson also said that generally, if more than one book in a series was published in the same year different people wrote them. There were likely exceptions to that rule, but that adds to the likelihood that more than one person worked on the series.

The book had information on book illustrators, but there was no information on Cliff Schule or Olindo Giacomini. Karenthewriter (talk) 18:58, 26 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]