
Hollister owns The Trading Post, a hardware store and toy shop in fictional Shoreham, and is often assisted at the store by his tight-knit family. The Hollister family – Pete, Pam, Ricky, Holly, and Sue – were modeled on Svenson’s own children and their family life in Bloomfield, NJ.

The Happy Hollisters books were all written by Andrew Svenson. Unlike those books, however, Jerry West was not a shared pen name. It was customary practice for the Stratemeyer Syndicate to assign pen names to series books, so that more than one author could contribute to the series for example, The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series books were written by multiple authors, all of whom used the pseudonym Franklin W.


The Happy Hollisters series is a children’s mystery/adventure series of books started in 1953 by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and author/partner Andrew E.
