Spin-offs
Between 1957 and 1964, the Cherry Ames Girls Annual was printed and distributed in the UK, usually before Christmas. Each annual had two original Cherry Ames short stories by Helen Wells, and additional stories by other authors.
In 1959, Cherry Ames' Book of First Aid and Home Nursing was published by Helen Wells for adolescents as a companion volume to the series.
Also in 1959, Cherry Ames' Nursing Game was published by American board game titan, Parker Brothers Inc.. Designed for 2 to 6 players, the game consists of a center-seamed, illustrated game board depicting various rooms in a hospital, 6 colored tokens, 36 colored rings, 20 directional cards, and a spinner. The object of the game is to travel about the board, gather six rings, and then leave the board at the space marked 'graduate.'
In the 1990s, Mabel Maney created a series of gay parodies of the girl-sleuth series books, bringing out their (almost certainly unintentional) lesbian subtext. Her first book, The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, had lesbian detectives “Cherry Aimless” and “Nancy Clue” doing more than just detective work with each other.
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