This month, the convertible-driving, clue-deciphering, boundary-pushing sleuth lands on the small screen in the CW’s new Nancy Drew series. But she was always a YA badass.
. “I was delighted when I found Nancy Drew. There’s so much to love: her bright mind, her adventurous spirit. And, of course,” she adds, “her affinity for wearing sensible trousers on the job.”ILLUSTRATIONS REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM GROSSET & DUNLAP, AN IMPRINT OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC.
I was delighted when I found Nancy Drew. There’s so much to love: her bright mind, her adventurous spirit. And, of course, her affinity for wearing sensible trousers on the job. —Like treasured recipes, the books have been passed down through generations of countless families. Nancy’s shrewdness, kindness, resilience, and unfailing moral compass are qualities readers have aspired to.
As for the 21st-century updates, showrunner Melinda Hsu Taylor says, “We’ve modernized all the characters in their own ways, and we want to make them characters that anybody in the audience, including the queer audience, can relate to. Back in the day, she was an inspiration to so many girls who were being told you can’t be such and such. ... We want it to be inclusive, and we want to put that on screen.
In 1984, Simon & Schuster acquired the copyright and spun off several new series, still written by ghostwriters as “Carolyn Keene”—an attempt to modernize her for the older teen market. These new books, whose covers all tend to look like advertisements for acne treatments, reduced Nancy to a crime-solving Carrie Bradshaw more interested in a suspect’s abs than his crimes.
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