Numbers on children's/YA career fiction through 1979

Months ago I posted a list on Tumblr
https://www.tumblr.com/caddyxjellyby/754276286076272640/preliminary-numbers-on-childrensya-career-novels?source=share

But I have added pages for many more books or series since then. In fact there are 146 books with at least one sequel, 580 standalone books, 1 short story collection about diving, and 1 series of short stories about Kay Collins, Secretary which appeared in the Cherry Ames Girls Annual. You can see that the number of nurse protagonists has more than doubled, but it is no longer the most common job. The most common is ( Read more... )