Lain into this copy is a headshot of the author. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary tells the story of young Leigh Botts and his pen pal relationship with favorite author Boyd Henshaw. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author.
1984 Newbery Medal Winner! After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Henshaw answers Leighs questions with questions of his own. Henshaw, to whom he has written a series of small letters over the year.
Leigh Botts, a sixth grade student at a new school, is given a class assignment of writing to an author. Zelinsky, with a small, intricate drawing of a butterfly.įirst edition. Fantasy (fiction), Trade Book, Lexile 810. Mouse AND signed on the half-title by the artist, Caldecott Medalist Paul O. Inscribed on by the author, Newbery Medalist, Beverly Cleary, on an inserted bookplate created especially for her with images of Ramona, Henry Huggins, Ribsy, and Ralph S. A fine copy with slightest soiling to upper edge of rear cloth, in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). Blue endpapers b&w illustrations throughout. White quarter-cloth stamped in blue with blue boards.
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