What starts as a school exercise turns into a journaling exercise wherein Leigh discusses what is going on in his life. Henshaw were realistic about their correspondence. Henshaw (the author) writes back and it was delightful to hear how both Leigh (the boy) and Mr. As it turns out, it is a juvenile epistolary story about a young boy who writes letters to an author he idolizes. I had no clue what the plot was about so I just dove into it. Henshaw (1984):This book won the Newbery in 1984 and it was one of the biggest surprises of the week for me. I read nine of her books this time, and here's what I thought of them:ĭear Mr.
Konigsburg, Louis Sachar, and Lois Lowry, I've got my eyes on you!) And I will finish the rest of Cleary's books next year, when I try this challenge again. I am already daydreaming about the other children's authors to whom I am going to dedicate weeks to in the upcoming months. In the case of children's books, however, it is plausible that you could read the entire oeuvre of an author who writes for children in a week or two, even if you read a few other books simultaneously. The only other author I've devoted a week of reading to was Nora Roberts last year with another friend (Vinaya from Chasing The Unicorn) and we hope to do that again in the next few weeks. So it was with great excitement that I set out to read lots of Beverly Cleary books in one week and after doing it, I can say that I definitely recommend the week-long challenge for this author in particular, and I look forward to trying it with a few other authors. I loved the Mouse and the Motorcycle movie so much as a kid that I actually bought it on VHS with money I made from babysitting.
Mouse books and the Ramona books), what I did remember was based mostly on the television series or movies that our teachers used to show us when they didn't have something planned.
Despite reading tons of Beverly Cleary books when I was a child, I remembered very little about all of them and in some cases (The Ralph S. During the last week in April, I read a bunch of Beverly Cleary books with Wendy Darling from The Midnight Garden.
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