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Dear Mr. Henshaw is a juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary and illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1984. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".
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Character
Earnest, spare, intimate and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Beverly Cleary
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 134
- Publisher
- Perfection Learning Prebound, Xin lei chu ban she, Editura Grupul Editorial Art
- Editions
- 65
- Language
- Chinese, French, und, heb
- ISBN
- 9780329033248
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“Dear Mr. Henshaw, My teacher read your book about the dog to our class.”
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