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Harriet the Spy is a children's novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh that was published in 1964. It has been called "a milestone in children's literature" and a "classic". In the U.S. it ranked number 12 in The 50 Best Books for Kids and number 17 in The Top 100 Children's Novels on two lists generated in 2012.
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Earnest, classical in form, spare and intimate.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Louise Fitzhugh
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 298
- Publisher
- Collins, Perfection Learning Prebound, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 63
- Language
- Italian, Chinese, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780807280683
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Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 33 have read it and 178 want to.
“Harriet was trying to explain to Sport how to play Town.”
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