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The twenty-first volume in the series, The Most Marvelous Moose Call Contest, set in Indian Lake, NY, is scheduled for release this September 2024.To date, more than 180,000 copies of the series have been sold. What began as a fun family writing project has evolved into a small publishing company. For more information on The Adirondack Kids® visit the official website: www.adirondackkids.com of The Adirondack Kids on Facebook.
Gary and Justin VanRiper are a father-son writing team residing with their families in Camden, New York. They spend summer and autumn days at camp on Fourth Lake along the Fulton Chain of lakes in the west-central Adirondacks. The Adirondack Kids® began as a writing exercise for fun at home when Justin was in the third grade. Encouraged after a public reading from their manuscript at an event at school, the project grew into a chapter book. When 2000 print copies of their self-published print book sold out in three months, they began a second story and for twenty years released one new Adirondack Kids book per year.
Carol VanRiper, Gary’s wife and Justin’s mom, has been interior illustrator for the series since the fourth book, making The Adirondack Kids® even more of a family affair.