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Country United States Series Henry Huggins Followed by Henry and Beezus | 4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1950 Originally published 1950 Illustrator Beverly Cleary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pages 155 pp, first edition paperback Publisher William Morrow and Company Characters Beezus Quimby, Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins Genres Fiction, Novel, Children's literature Similar Beverly Cleary books, Ramona books, Children's literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Henry Huggins is the first book in the Henry Huggins series of children's novels, written by Beverly Cleary. Henry is an ordinary boy who manages to get into funny scrapes with his dog, Ribsy. First published in 1950, it was originally illustrated by Louis Darling and later by Tracy Dockray. It has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish, and published as audiobooks read by Barbara Caruso and Neil Patrick Harris.
The book was a response to a letter from a child saying, "Where are the books about the kids like us?" One critic called the character of "Henry" the "modern Tom Sawyer."
The character of Henry Huggins returned in later books and also in a play which was written by Beverly Cleary and Cynthia J. McGean.