Editing August Derleth (section)

===Youth and children's fiction===
Derleth wrote many and varied children's works, including biographies meant to introduce younger readers to explorer [[Jacques Marquette]], as well as [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] and [[Henry David Thoreau]]. Arguably most important among his works for younger readers, however, is the Steve and Sim Mystery Series, also known as the Mill Creek Irregulars series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://series-books.com/millcreek/stevesim.html|title=The Mill Creek Irregulars Series|website=series-books.com|access-date=February 16, 2016|archive-date=February 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216005408/http://www.series-books.com/millcreek/stevesim.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The ten-volume series, published between 1958 and 1970, is set in Sac Prairie of the 1920s and can thus be considered in its own right a part of the ''Sac Prairie Saga'', as well as an extension of Derleth's body of mystery fiction. Robert Hood, writing in the ''New York Times'' said: "Steve and Sim, the major characters, are twentieth-century cousins of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer; Derleth's minor characters, little gems of comic drawing." The first novel in the series, ''The Moon Tenders'', does, in fact, involve a rafting adventure down the [[Wisconsin River]], which led regional writer [[Jesse Stuart]] to suggest the novel was one that "older people might read to recapture the spirit and dream of youth." The connection to the ''Sac Prairie Saga'' was noted by the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'': "Once again a small midwest community in 1920s is depicted with perception, skill, and dry humor."