The Bobbsey Twins’ Big Adventure at Home

The Bobbsey Twins’ Big Adventure at Home was published in 1959 and is one of the later original-series volumes, set entirely in the family’s Lakeport house and surrounding neighborhood rather than at one of the travel destinations the series typically visited. The book is one of the more domestic entries, with the adventure being relatively small-scale by Bobbsey standards.

The plot involves a strange series of disturbances around the Bobbsey property: missing tools from the garage, a flowerpot moved from the back porch to the front, food disappearing from the picnic table. Bert and Nan eventually trace the disturbances to a young runaway hiding in the toolshed, and the family takes him in until his actual situation can be sorted out. The handling is gentle in the late-1950s Bobbsey style. Flossie and Freddie remain underfoot throughout. A pleasant if minor late entry in the original numbered series.