![]() ![]() The age for this book is a little interesting. Cleary is so extremely deft, coming across as an actual child interacting with actual adults and a big, changing world. Some of the characters are special, and others are funny. The scene, again is so few words, just jumps off the page. In the end, the story is less about the resolutions of any of these problems and more about: will Leigh adjust?Īll the characters in the book, with se few pages and so few words, are approachable, endearing, flawed, and fleshed out. Henshaw, about how his parents have just divorced, he has been moved to a new town and a new school, his dad has lost his dog, and someone keeps stealing all the best things out of his lunch bag. Henshaw, for years, but when his teacher makes her class send a list of questions to authors, Mr. Sixth-grader Leigh Botts has been writing to his favorite author, Mr. ![]()
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