![]() ![]() ![]() The latest (and last Sobol-written) installment, Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Soccer Scheme, will be released in October. ![]() Sobol also wrote a series called Two-Minute Mysteries. It was adapted as a newspaper comic strip and a TV series. The Encyclopedia Brown series was translated into 12 languages, and has sold millions of copies worldwide, according to Penguin. One that came to mind is the wonderful Great Brain series, about a mischievous older brother named "The Great Brain," who exploits in small Utah town at the turn of the century are told by his younger brother. Hearing about Sobol's death, I was reminded of other books about boy or girl protagonists solving mysteries and scheming to do cool things. ![]() That was a novel premise, to give that role of "the muscle" to a girl. She also could stand up to Bugs, and was Encyclopedia's bodyguard. Credit his best pal (and girl Friday) Sally Kimball: older, stronger and sometimes smarter. And I came up with a hundred schemes a summer to make money, trick the bully, or otherwise engineer a scenario to be the smart one who would sweep in to save the day.īut Encyclopedia's success wasn't only due to his problem-solving prowess. I lived vicariously through Encyclopedia Brown. I wasn't actually all that great at solving the mysteries. ![]()
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