- Parents, Pets, Dogs, Chinook salmon
Henry and Ribsy is the third book in the Henry Huggins series of humorous children's novels written by Beverly Cleary. Henry's dad has promised to take him salmon fishing on one condition – he has to keep his dog Ribsy out of trouble for two months. That's not easy to do, especially when Ramona Quimby gets involved. First published in 1954, Henry and Ribsy was originally illustrated by Louis Darling.
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Classical in form, warm, effortless and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Beverly Cleary
- First published
- October 18, 1923
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, William Morrow & Company, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 45
- Language
- Dutch, Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9780061685040
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“ONE warm Saturday morning in August, Henry Huggins and his mother and father were eating breakfast in their square white house on Klickitat Street.”
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