#henry huggins

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Books of Beverly Cleary in order

Beverly Cleary was an American author of children’s books. Born in April 12th, 1916 she sadly passed on the 25th of March, 2021.

Henry Huggins

Henry Huggins (1950) — Buy on Amazon!

Henry and Beezus (1952) — Buy on Amazon!

Henry and Ribsy (1953) — Buy on Amazon!

Henry and the Paper Route (1957) — Buy on Amazon!

Henry and the Clubhouse (1962) — Buy on Amazon!

Ribsy (1964) — Buy on Amazon!

Ellen & Otis

Ellen Tebbits (1951) — Buy on Amazon!

Otis Spofford (1953) — Buy on Amazon!

Ramona Quimby

Beezus and Ramona (1955) — Buy on Amazon!

Ramona the Pest (1968) — Buy on Amazon!

Ramona the Brave (1975) — Buy on Amazon!

Ramona and Her Father (1977) — Buy on Amazon!

Ramona and Her Mother (1979) — Buy on Amazon!

Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) — Buy on Amazon!

Ramona Forever (1984) — Buy on Amazon!

Ramona's World (1999) — Buy on Amazon!

Ramona Quimby Non-Fiction

The Beezus and Ramona Diary (1986) — Buy on Amazon!

Just for Me (2013) — Buy on Amazon!

First Love

Fifteen (1956) — Buy on Amazon!

The Luckiest Girl (1958) — Buy on Amazon!

Jean and Johnny (1959) — Buy on Amazon!

Sister of the Bride (1963) — Buy on Amazon!

Ralph S. Mouse

The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965) — Buy on Amazon!

Runaway Ralph (1970) — Buy on Amazon!

Ralph S. Mouse (1982) — Buy on Amazon!

Leigh Botts

Dear Mr. Henshaw (1983) — Buy on Amazon!

Strider (1991) — Buy on Amazon!

Standalone Novels

Beaver and Wally (1961) — Buy on Amazon!

Emily's Runaway Imagination (1961) — Buy on Amazon!

Here's Beaver! (1961) — Buy on Amazon!

Ribsy and the P.T.A. (1963) — Buy on Amazon!

Mitch and Amy (1967) — Buy on Amazon!

Socks (1973) — Buy on Amazon!

Leave It to Beaver (1978) — Buy on Amazon!

Young Love (1982) — Buy on Amazon!

Lucky Chuck (1984) — Buy on Amazon!

Here Come The Twins (1989) — Buy on Amazon!

The Twins Again (1989) — Buy on Amazon!

Mouse House Trio (1989) — Buy on Amazon!

Muggie Maggie (1990) — Buy on Amazon!

Short Story Collections

Two Times the Fun (2005) — Buy on Amazon!

Picture

The Hullabaloo ABC (1960) — Buy on Amazon!

The Real Hole (1960) — Buy on Amazon!

Two Dog Biscuits (1986) — Buy on Amazon!

Janet's Thingamajigs (1987) — Buy on Amazon!

The Growing-Up Feet (1987) — Buy on Amazon!

Petey's Bedtime Story (1993) — Buy on Amazon!

Non-Fiction

A Girl from Yamhill (1988) — Buy on Amazon!

My Own Two Feet (1995) — Buy on Amazon!

Avon Camelot

Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner) (1952) — Buy on Amazon!

Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie) (1980) — Buy on Amazon!

A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler) (1981) — Buy on Amazon!

Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz) (1981) — Buy on Amazon!

The Trouble with Tuck (By: Theodore Taylor) (1981) — Buy on Amazon!

Irma and Jerry (By: George Selden) (1982) — Buy on Amazon!

Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich) (1982) — Buy on Amazon!

Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard) (1983) — Buy on Amazon!

Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.) (1983) — Buy on Amazon!

Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb) (1983) — Buy on Amazon!

Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) (1983) — Buy on Amazon!

Summerdog (By: Thom Roberts) (1983) — Buy on Amazon!

Bet You Can't! (By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb) (1983) — Buy on Amazon!

The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes (By: Laurence Pringle) (1983) — Buy on Amazon!

Behind the Attic Wall (By: Sylvia Cassedy) (1983) — Buy on Amazon!

Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater (By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young) (1984) — Buy on Amazon!

Gremlins (By: George Gipe) (1984) — Buy on Amazon!

Maura's Angel (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (1984) — Buy on Amazon!

The Jellyfish Season (By: Mary Downing Hahn) (1985) — Buy on Amazon!

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 (By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler) (1985) — Buy on Amazon!

Get Rich Mitch! (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) (1985) — Buy on Amazon!

Mystery of the Melted Diamonds (By: Carol Farley) (1986) — Buy on Amazon!

Ukrainian Egg Mystery (By: George E. Stanley) (1986) — Buy on Amazon!

Moroccan Mystery (By: Thomas McKean) (1986) — Buy on Amazon!

Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (By: Steve Senn) (1986) — Buy on Amazon!

Flash Fry, Private Eye (By: Tim Schoch) (1986) — Buy on Amazon!

The Anti-Peggy Plot (By: Thomas McKean) (1986) — Buy on Amazon!

Best Joke Book for Kids 2 (By: Joan Eckstein) (1987) — Buy on Amazon!

The Codebreaker Kids (By: George E. Stanley) (1987) — Buy on Amazon!

Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch) (1987) — Buy on Amazon!

The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley) (1988) — Buy on Amazon!

Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg) (1988) — Buy on Amazon!

Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts) (1988) — Buy on Amazon!

Anne Frank (By: Johanna Hurwitz) (1989) — Buy on Amazon!

The Case of the Vanishing Villain (By: Carol Farley) (1990) — Buy on Amazon!

Something Upstairs (By: C.S. Adler) (1990) — Buy on Amazon!

Ghost Brother (By: C.S. Adler) (1990) — Buy on Amazon!

A Haunting in Williamsburg (By: Lou Kassem) (1990) — Buy on Amazon!

The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen) (1991) — Buy on Amazon!

Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (By: Louis Phillips) (1992) — Buy on Amazon!

The Adventures of King Midas (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (1992) — Buy on Amazon!

Tons of Trash (By: Joan Rattner Heilman) (1992) — Buy on Amazon!

Maria, a Christmas Story (By: Theodore Taylor) (1992) — Buy on Amazon!

How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem) (1993) — Buy on Amazon!

Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy) (1993) — Buy on Amazon!

Beardance (By: Will Hobbs) (1993) — Buy on Amazon!

Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart) (1993) — Buy on Amazon!

Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler) (1994) — Buy on Amazon!

The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen) (1994) — Buy on Amazon!

Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux) (1994) — Buy on Amazon!

Main Street (By: Susan Kirby) (1994) — Buy on Amazon!

Comet Luck (By: Madge Harrah) (1994) — Buy on Amazon!

Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (By: Johanna Hurwitz) (1995) — Buy on Amazon!

Kwanzaa (By: Mildred Pitts Walter) (1995) — Buy on Amazon!

Vampire Mom (By: Don Whittington) (1995) — Buy on Amazon!

My Own Two Feet (1995) — Buy on Amazon!

Spookhouse (By: Don Whittington) (1995) — Buy on Amazon!

Harry the Poisonous Centipede (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (1996) — Buy on Amazon!

Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller (By: Septima Green) (1996) — Buy on Amazon!

Four Perfect Pebbles (By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan) (1996) — Buy on Amazon!

Zombie Queen (By: Don Whittington) (1996) — Buy on Amazon!

Freak Show (By: Don Whittington) (1996) — Buy on Amazon!

Going to Net (By: Various) (1996) — Buy on Amazon!

Tracks in the Snow (By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe) (1997) — Buy on Amazon!

Danger Along the Ohio (By: Patricia Willis) (1997) — Buy on Amazon!

Lasting Echoes (By: Joseph Bruchac) (1997) — Buy on Amazon!

Night of the Chupacabras (By: Marie G. Lee) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

As Ever, Gordy (By: Mary Downing Hahn) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (By: Anita Lobel) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

Becoming Felix (By: Nancy Hope Wilson) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

Breakaway (By: Kimberley Griffiths Little) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (By: Dawn Knight) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz (By: Jacqueline Shannon) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

Leaving Summer (By: Donal Harding) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

Flea Circus Summer (By: Cheryl Ware) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

Calling Me Home (By: Patricia Hermes) (1998) — Buy on Amazon!

The Pizza That Time Forgot (By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea) (1999) — Buy on Amazon!

Love Me, Love My Broccoli (By: Julie Anne Peters) (1999) — Buy on Amazon!

Get on the Net (By: Robert Pondiscio) (1999) — Buy on Amazon!

Don't Try This at Home! (By: Vicki Cobb) (1999) — Buy on Amazon!

Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (By: Bruce Coville) (1999) — Buy on Amazon!

A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights (By: Kathleen Krull) (1999) — Buy on Amazon!

Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (By: Bruce Coville) (1999) — Buy on Amazon!

Green Mango Magic (By: Sylvie Hossack) (1999) — Buy on Amazon!

All the Answers (By: Anne C. Lemieux) (2000) — Buy on Amazon!

Can of Worms (By: Kathy MacKel) (2000) — Buy on Amazon!

Orphan Journey Home (By: Liza Ketchum) (2000) — Buy on Amazon!

Bearstone (By: Will Hobbs) (2000) — Buy on Amazon!

Alice-by-Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (2000) — Buy on Amazon!

Death at Devil's Bridge (By: Cynthia C. DeFelice) (2000) — Buy on Amazon!

Alice By Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks) (2003) — Buy on Amazon!

Anthologies

It's Fine to Be Nine (2000) — Buy on Amazon!

It's Heaven to Be Seven (2000) — Buy on Amazon!

It's Great to Be Eight (2000) — Buy on Amazon!

[nameshowdown]

Henry Showdown (Henry Off) - Round 1

Who is the better Henry?

Henry George Edward James Hanover-Stuart-Fox - Red White and Royal Blue

Henry Huggins - Henry Huggins

Voting ended onOct 2, 2025

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Beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary has passed away, just a few weeks short of her 105th birthday.

Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; April 12, 1916 – March 25, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. One of America's most successful authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of Cleary's best known characters are Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, and Ralph S. Mouse.

The majority of Cleary's books are set where she grew up, in the Grant Park neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.  She has been credited as one of the first authors of children's books to figure emotional realism in the narratives of her characters, often children in middle-class families.

She won the 1981 National Book Award for Ramona and Her Mother and the 1984 Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw. For her lifetime contributions to American literature, Cleary received the National Medal of Arts, recognition as a Library of Congress Living Legend, and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the Association for Library Service to Children. The Beverly Cleary School, a public school in Portland, was named after her, and several statues of her most famous characters were erected in Grant Park in 1995.

Cleary was an only child and lived on a farm until she was six years old, when her family moved to Portland.  The adjustment from living in the country to the city was hard for her, and she found school challenging; in first grade, her teacher placed her in a group for struggling readers. Cleary said, "The first grade was separated into three reading groups—Bluebirds, Redbirds, and Blackbirds. I was a Blackbird. To be a Blackbird was to be disgraced. I wanted to read, but somehow could not." With the help of a school librarian who introduced her to books she enjoyed, Cleary caught up by third grade and started to spend a lot of time reading and at the library. By sixth grade, a teacher suggested that Cleary should become a children's writer based on essays she had written for class assignments.

After high school, Cleary went on to the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1938. She also met her future husband, Clarence Cleary, during her time at Cal. The couple eloped and were married in 1940.  During World War II, she got a job as a librarian at the U.S. Army Hospital in nearby Oakland.  Working with children, Cleary empathized with her young patrons, who had difficulty finding books with characters they could identify with. After a few years of making recommendations and performing live storytelling in her role as librarian, Cleary decided to start writing children's books herself, and in 1942, she became a full-time writer. 

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Klickitcast - A Beverly Cleary Podcast

This is a podcast that I accidentally stumbled upon recently. If you enjoyed any of Beverly Cleary’s books, whether it’s Henry Huggins or Beezus and Ramona or Ralph S. Mouse, then I would highly recommend this podcast. The hosts, Phil Gonzales and John McCoy, go through all of her books in chronological order and discuss how the characters and Clearly’s writing develop ed over the years. It’s such a fascinating listen and such a lovely way to reconnect with some childhood stories- I can’t recommend it enough!!

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Ramona paper dolls by Beverly Cleary and JoAn Lorraine Scribner.

Part 2 here:

https://fashioninpaper.tumblr.com/post/646770780353462272/ramona-paper-dolls-by-beverley-cleary

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The first reread I'm starting with is Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary. This actually isn't a book I'd generally reread. I've read it twice and while I generally love Beverly Cleary's books I seem to prefer the ones with girl protagonists. The only one in the Henry series that I remember really appealing to me was Henry and the Paper Route. However, when Beverly Cleary passed away in March I decided to (re)read all her books in chronological order (or, at the last, all those I can get access to)-after I finished the Animorphs series. In December I finished Animorphs so here I am with the first book she ever published. 

She specifically wrote it because she noticed as a librarian that kids didn't have many books about their lives and I think that that is one of the important this in her books. Many realistic fiction books are very dramatic, but in Beverly Cleary's books kids just experience day-to-day life with all its problems and excitements, and it's interesting.