Editing Stratemeyer Syndicate (section)

==Foreign publications==

Some syndicate series were also reprinted in foreign countries. An early foreign version was a [[Ted Scott Flying Stories]] book, published in Germany in 1930 as ''Ted Scott Der Ozeanflieger.'' The artwork was generally changed when reprinted in other countries, and sometimes character names and other details were as well. For example, in Norway, translations of the Nancy Drew books were first published in 1941, the first European market to introduce the girl detective. “The translators changed the color of Nancy's car, shortened the text, and made the language easier to read; but they made no substantive changes” to the stories.<ref>Skjønsberg, Kari. "Nancy, a.k.a. Kitty, Susanne, Alice—in Norway and Other European Countries." ''The Lion and the Unicorn'', Volume 18, Number 1, June 1994, pp. 70-77.</ref> By the 1970s, Nancy Drew stories had “been translated into Spanish, Swedish, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Icelandic.<ref>Wertheimer, Barbara S. and Carol Sands. "'Nancy Drew' Revisited." ''Language Arts'', Vol. 52, No. 8 (NOV/DEC 1975), pp. 1131-1161.</ref>

Other series reprinted outside the States include ''The Dana Girls'', ''The Hardy Boys'' and the ''Bobbsey Twins'' (in Australia, France, Sweden, and the UK). These other series first appeared around the 1950s outside the United States.

The second Stratemeyer Syndicate series to be reprinted outside the United States appears to have been the first two books in the [[Don Sturdy]] series, although exact dates of printing are unknown.  Those were ''The Desert of Mystery'' and ''The Big Snake Hunters''. There are two British versions known of the latter book; both were printed by The Children's Press, one in the 1930s and the second, with different cover art, in the 1950s.