Paperback, 155 pages
English language
Published Jan. 9, 2000 by Scholastic, Scholastic Inc..
Henry Huggins feels that nothing very interesting ever happens to him. But from the moment a stray dog in the drugstore begs for a taste of his ice-cream cone and downs it in one gulp, everything is different. Henry names the dog Ribsy and decides to keep him. Before Henry even reaches home with Ribsy he spends all of his money, gets kicked off three buses, and enjoys a hair-raising ride in a police car. And that's only the beginning of Henry's exciting new life! --back cover
My oldest grandson (~8) found this novel immensely interesting. As hard as he found it to believe, he liked it even better than Ramona.
A grown ass woman can read Beverly Cleary any time she wants for a bit of nostalgia and escapism, and there's no better time to do it than the week Ms. Cleary turns 100 years old. Sometimes you can go home again and it doesn't suck. It's just as you remembered and it makes you happy on a cold rainy Monday. Now on to Henry and Beezus!
