Henry and Ribsy

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At last, Henry Huggins's father has promised to take him fishing, on one condition. Henry's dog, Ribsy, has been in all sorts of trouble lately, from running off with the neighbor's barbecue roast to stealing a policeman's lunch. To go on the fishing trip, Henry must keep Ribsy out of trouble — no chasing cats, no digging up lawns...and no getting anywhere near little Ramona Quimby, the pest of Klickitat Street.

Henry strikes an almost no-win deal with his ...

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Overview

At last, Henry Huggins's father has promised to take him fishing, on one condition. Henry's dog, Ribsy, has been in all sorts of trouble lately, from running off with the neighbor's barbecue roast to stealing a policeman's lunch. To go on the fishing trip, Henry must keep Ribsy out of trouble — no chasing cats, no digging up lawns...and no getting anywhere near little Ramona Quimby, the pest of Klickitat Street.

Henry strikes an almost no-win deal with his father--keep Ribsy out of trouble for one month in order to go salmon fishing. What can one boy do with a dog who steals the policeman's lunch and an ice cream cone from Beezus's little sister, Ramona?

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Editorial Reviews

New York Times
Ribsy complicates life as only a loyal, bumbling, well-intentioned mutt can. Few writers for children handle everyday comedy so briskly and realistically as Beverly Cleary.
New York Times
Ribsy complicates life as only a loyal, bumbling, well-intentioned mutt can. Few writers for children handle everyday comedy so briskly and realistically as Beverly Cleary.
Children's Literature
Back in the good old days when dogs ran loose and got into a lot of neighborhood mischief, Henry Huggins' dog Ribsy, a scruffy mongrel, had to be closely supervised by his master. In return for guaranteeing Ribsy's good behavior, Henry gets to go salmon fishing with his dad. Although Ribsy manages to steal a policeman's lunch, menaces the garbage men and appears to be threatening little children on the school playground, Henry keeps him under enough control to be awarded the fishing trip, which turns out to be rainy, cold, dangerous and almost fishless. Although he behaves disruptively in the fishing boat, Ribsy redeems himself by helping his master end up in glory as he captures a giant Chinook salmon with his bare hands. The setting is Portland, Oregon, in the 1950s. Beverly Cleary understands lovable but disreputable dogs, boastful boys and obstreperous little sisters, and writes of them with humor and understanding in her chapter books. 2001 (orig. 1954), HarperTrophy, $5.95. Ages 8 to 12. Reviewer: Patricia Dole
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780380709175
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 3/28/1990
  • Series: Henry Huggins Series
  • Edition description: 50th Anniversary Edition
  • Edition number: 50
  • Pages: 208
  • Sales rank: 65,873
  • Age range: 8 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 740L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.13 (w) x 7.46 (h) x 0.46 (d)

Meet the Author

Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary is one of America's most popular authors. Born in McMinnville, Oregon, she lived on a farm in Yamhill until she was six and then moved to Portland. After college, as the children's librarian in Yakima, Washington, she was challenged to find stories for non-readers. She wrote her first book, Henry Huggins, inresponse to a boy's question, "Where are the books about kids like us?"

Mrs. Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards, including the Amercan Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature.

Her Dear Mr. Henshaw was awarded the 1984 John Newbery Medal, and both Ramona Quimby, Age 8 and Ramona and Her Father have been named Newbery Honor Books. In addition, her books have won more than thirty-five statewide awards based on the votes of her young readers. Her characters, including Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Beezus and Ramona Quimby, as well as Ribsy, Socks, and Ralph S. Mouse, have delighted children for generations. Mrs. Cleary lives in coastal California.

Tracy Dockray is a fine artist and illustrator who has contributed to more than twenty illustrated books, including the bestselling Grimm's Grimmest, Delia at the Delano, and all of Beverly Cleary's highly popular children's books, most notably Ramona. A member of the Society of Illustrators, she holds an MFA from Pratt and lives in New York City.

Biography

Beverly Cleary was inadvertently doing market research for her books before she wrote them, as a young children’s librarian in Yakima, Washington. Cleary heard a lot about what kids were and weren’t responding to in literature, and she thought of her library patrons when she later sat down to write her first book.

Henry Huggins, published in 1950, was an effort to represent kids like the ones in Yakima and like the ones in her childhood neighborhood in Oregon. The bunch from Klickitat Street live in modest houses in a quiet neighborhood, but they’re busy: busy with rambunctious dogs (one Ribsy, to be precise), paper routes, robot building, school, bicycle acquisitions, and other projects. Cleary was particularly sensitive to the boys from her library days who complained that they could find nothing of interest to read – and Ralph and the Motorcycle was inspired by her son, who in fourth grade said he wanted to read about motorcycles. Fifteen years after her Henry books, Cleary would concoct the delightful story of a boy who teaches Ralph to ride his red toy motorcycle.

Cleary’s best known character, however, is a girl: Ramona Quimby, the sometimes difficult but always entertaining little sister whom Cleary follows from kindergarten to fourth grade in a series of books. Ramona is a Henry Huggins neighbor who, with her sister, got her first proper introduction in Beezus and Ramona, adding a dimension of sibling dynamics to the adventures on Klickitat Street. Cleary’s stories, so simple and so true, deftly portrayed the exasperation and exuberance of being a kid. Finally, an author seemed to understand perfectly about bossy/pesty siblings, unfair teachers, playmate politics, the joys of clubhouses and the perils of sub-mattress monsters.

Cleary is one of the rare children’s authors who has been able to engage both boys and girls on their own terms, mostly through either Henry Huggins or Ramona and Beezus. She has not limited herself to those characters, though. In 1983, she won the Newbery Medal with Dear Mr. Henshaw, the story of a boy coping with his parents’ divorce, as told through his journal entries and correspondence with his favorite author. She has also written a few books for older girls (Fifteen, The Luckiest Girl, Sister of the Bride, and Jean and Johnny) mostly focusing on first love and family relationships. A set of books for beginning readers stars four-year-old twins Jimmy and Janet.

Some of Cleary’s books – particularly her titles for young adults – may seem somewhat alien to kids whose daily lives don’t feature soda fountains, bottles of ink, or even learning cursive. Still, the author’s stories and characters stand the test of time; and she nails the basic concerns of childhood and adolescence. Her books (particularly the more modern Ramona series, which touches on the repercussions of a father’s job loss and a mother’s return to work) remain relevant classics.

Cleary has said in an essay that she wrote her two autobiographical books, A Girl from Yamhill and My Own Two Feet, "because I wanted to tell young readers what life was like in safer, simpler, less-prosperous times, so different from today." She has conveyed that safer, simpler era -- still fraught with its own timeless concerns -- to children in her fiction as well, more than half a century after her first books were released.

Good To Know

Word processing is not Cleary's style. She writes, "I write in longhand on yellow legal pads. Some pages turn out right the first time (hooray!), some pages I revise once or twice and some I revise half-a-dozen times. I then attack my enemy the typewriter and produce a badly typed manuscript which I take to a typist whose fingers somehow hit the right keys. No, I do not use a computer. Everybody asks."

Cleary usually starts her books on January 2.

Up until she was six, Cleary lived in Yamhill, Oregon -- a town so small it had no library. Cleary's mother took up the job of librarian, asking for books to be sent from the state branch and lending them out from a lodge room over a bank. It was, Clearly remembers, "a dingy room filled with shabby leather-covered chairs and smelling of stale cigar smoke. The books were shelved in a donated china cabinet. It was there I made the most magical discovery: There were books written especially for children!"

Cleary authored a series of tie-in books in the early 1960s for classic TV show Leave It to Beaver.

Cleary's books appear in over 20 countries in 14 languages.

Cleary's book The Luckiest Girl is based in part on her own young adulthood, when a cousin of her mother's offered to take Beverly for the summer and have her attend Chaffey Junior College in Ontario, California. Cleary went from there to the University of California at Berkeley.

The actress Sarah Polley got her start playing Ramona in the late ‘80s TV series. Says Cleary in a Q & A on her web site: “I won’t let go of the rights for television productions unless I have script approval. There have been companies that have wanted the movie rights to Ramona, but they won’t let me have script approval, and so I say no. I did have script approval for the television productions of the Ramona series…. I thought Sarah Polley was a good little actress, a real little professional.”

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    1. Also Known As:
      Beverly Atlee Bunn (birth name)
    2. Hometown:
      Carmel, California
    1. Date of Birth:
      April 12, 1916
    2. Place of Birth:
      McMinnville, Oregon
    1. Education:
      B.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1938; B.A. in librarianship, University of Washington (Seattle), 1939

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Chapter One



Ribsy and the Lube Job



One warm Saturday morning in August, Henry Huggins and his mother and father were eating breakfast in their square white house on Klickitat Street. Henry's dog Ribsy sat close to Henry's chair, hoping for a handout. While Mr. and Mrs. Huggins listened to the nine o'clock news on the radio, Henry tried to think of something interesting he could do that day. Of course he could play ball with Scooter or ride his bicycle over to Robert's house and work on the model railroad, but those were things he could do every day. Today he wanted to do something different, something he had never done before.

Before Henry thought of anything interesting to do, the radio announcer finished the news and four men began to sing. Henry, who heard this program every Saturday, sang with them.

"Woofies Dog Food is the best,
Contains more meat than all the rest.
So buy your dog a can today
And watch it chase his blues away.
Woof, woof, woof, Woofies!"
Then the sound of a dog barking came out of the radio.

"R-r-r-wuf!" said Ribsy, looking at the radio.

The announcer's voice cut in. "Is your dog a member of the family?" he asked.

"He sure is!" exclaimed Henry to the radio. "He's the best dog there is."

"Henry, for goodness' sake, turn that down," said Mrs. Huggins, as she poured herself a cup of coffee. "And by the way, Henry, speaking of good dogs reminds me that Mrs. Green said Ribsy ran across the new lawn she just planted. She said he left deep paw prints all the way across."

"Aw, he didn't mean to hurt her old lawn. He wasjust . . ." Henry remembered that Ribsy had run across the lawn because he was chasing the Grumbies' cat. "He was just in a hurry," he finished lamely. "You're a good dog, aren't you, Ribsy?"

Thump, thump, thump went Ribsy's tail on the rug.

"We think he's a good dog, but the neighbors won't if he runs across new lawns and chases cats," said Mr. Huggins.

Henry looked sharply at his father and wondered how he knew about Ribsy's chasing the Grumbies' cat. At the same time he couldn't see why Ribsy was to blame about the lawn. The cat ran across it first, didn't she? "Well, anyway, Ribsy doesn't keep everybody awake barking at night, like that collie in the next block," said Henry.

"Just the same, you better keep an eye on him. We don't want him to be a nuisance to the neighbors." Mr. Huggins laid his napkin beside his plate. "Well, I guess I'll take the car down to the service station for a lube job."

That gave Henry an idea. Here was his chance to do something he had never done before, something he had always wanted to do when his father had the car greased.

"Oh, boy, I . . ." Henry paused because it occurred to him that his mother might not like his idea. He had better wait and ask his father when they got to the service station. "Can I go?" he asked eagerly.

"Sure," answered Mr. Huggins. "Come along."

"Woofies Dog Food is the best," sang Henry, as he and Ribsy climbed into the front seat of the car. Henry sat in the middle beside his father, because Ribsy liked to lean out the window and sniff all the interesting smells. Henry was happy to be going someplace, even just to the service station, with his father. He always had a grownup, man-to-man feeling when they were alone together. He wished his father had time to take him places oftener.

As they drove toward the service station they passed the Rose City Sporting Goods Shop, where Henry noticed the windows filled with tennis rackets, golf clubs, and fishing tackle. Fishing tackle -- that gave Henry a second idea. "Say, Dad," he said, I was wondering if you plan to go fishing pretty soon."

"I expect I will." Mr. Huggins stopped at a red light. "Hector Grumbie and I thought we'd go salmon fishing sometime in September. Why?"

"How about taking me along this year?" Henry tried to sound grown-up and casual.

Mr. Huggins drove past the Supermarket and turned into Al's Thrifty Service Station. "We'll see, he said.

Boy, oh, boy, thought Henry, as he and Ribsy got out of the car near the grease rack. When his father said, "We'll see," he meant, "Yes, unless something unusual happens." If he had said, "Ask your mother," it would mean he didn't care whether Henry went fishing or not. But -- "We'll see!" Henry could see himself sitting in a boat reeling in a salmon -- a Chinook salmon. He could see himself having his picture taken beside his fish and could hear people saying, "Yes, this is Henry Huggins, the boy who caught the enormous Chinook salmon."

When Mr. Huggins had arranged with Al, the owner of the station, to have the car lubricated, he turned to Henry and said, I have to go to the bank and do a few errands. Are you coming with me or do you want to wait here?"

Henry had been so busy thinking about fishing that he had almost forgotten why he came to the filling station in the first place. He looked at the car beside the grease rack and hesitated. Maybe it was a silly idea. Still, it was something he had always wanted to do. "Say . . . uh, Dad, do you suppose I could stay in the car and ride up on the grease rack?"

Mr. Huggins and Al both laughed. "You know, I always wanted to do the same thing when I was a kid," said Mr. Huggins. "It's all right with me, but maybe Al won't think it's such a good idea."

Henry and Ribsy. Copyright © by Beverly Cleary. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 2, 2012

    Love it lots;-)

    I love henry and ribsy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;-)

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 2, 2010

    Henry and Ribsy

    Book title and author: Henry and Ribsy Beverly Clearly Title of review: Henry and Ribsy Number of stars (1 to 5): 3.5 Introduction Henry and Ribsy was a good book because Henry has to face a challenge by keeping his dog out of trouble so he can go on a fishing trip with his dad but Ribsy is always getting into trouble. Ribsy took a police man's lunch ran into the neighbor's barbecue and will do many other things. Description and summary of main points The main points of this book is that you have to work for what you want to do. And that's what Henry has to do with Ribsy. He always wanted to go fishing with his dad and he told him he can go when he is older and Henry wants to go this year and he tells his friend that when his dad takes him fishing he is going to catch a Chinook, a Chinook is a large salmon fish. But his friend Scooter says that its to big of a fish it weighs 20-30 pounds and he could never catch it. Evaluation I liked the book Henry and Ribsy because it achieves all the goals and purpose of what the book is really about. And it's a really good book for younger children because henry takes a lot of responsibility and shows his parents that they can trust him. Conclusion The conclusion of this book is that Henry was being responsible there are good things that can happen like what he wants to do and that what happens to him. Your final review I gave this book a 3.5 because it teaches kids how to be responsible and that there actions can make something good happen to them

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted December 7, 2009

    We just discovered the Beverly Cleary books

    My son likes these books (he is in 4th grade) as easy, fun books with s fun story.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2013

    Reader rachel

    Intersting!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 10, 2013

    Is it good

    I have not read this book ive read other books in the seris and ive seen romana and beezus the movie but thats it!!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 21, 2013

    Fabuilos

    I loves the way he caught the chnook!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2013

    Boob head

    Butt filled with poo

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 2, 2013

    Great book

    Part of the book was about Henry and Ribsy going fishing with Henry's dad. I really recommend Beverly Clearly. It is one of my favorites books.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 10, 2012

    Mia pppppppooooooooopppppppppppooooo dhcgdxdss

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    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 6, 2012

    Great Book

    I loved it if you like Beverly Cleary

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 9, 2012

    Sucks

    It sucks balls

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 6, 2012

    So far so good

    I am not done yet but I like it so far.

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 27, 2012

    Love it

    It is so cool

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2011

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 2011

    Hl22

    LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 11, 2011

    Henrey and Risbey

    I have not read it but soon I will.Thanks for the review.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted April 5, 2011

    Awesome

    the book is awesome it is a great. book

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted February 13, 2011

    most awesome book ever

    it,s about how a boy and a dog have to stop getting in trouble so the boy can go fishing because his dad promised him on one condition they stop getting in trouble! if you read this book enjoy it

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 3, 2008

    Henry and Ribsy

    ISBN 0380709171 ¿ Beverly Cleary is one tough author to dislike. She¿s got writing for children down pat, and her books appeal to boys as well as girls ¿ that¿s no small feat in world where everyone looks at Goosebumps as ¿boys¿ books¿ and the Babysitters Club as ¿girls¿ books¿. Cleary simply does ¿children¿s books¿ and does them well. Henry would like very much to go fishing with his father, at the very least so that he can catch a really big Chinook to show up Scooter. Mr. Huggins even agrees to take Henry along, on one condition: keep Ribsy out of trouble until then. Piece of cake! thinks Henry. Blindly loving his dog, he cannot imagine that keeping such a good dog out of trouble would require much effort at all. But Ribsy is Ribsy and, despite Henry¿s confidence, Ribsy just can¿t seem to help himself. Fantastically funny stuff! The trouble Ribsy can manage to get into never fails to make me laugh, even after all these years. While times have changed and your children probably don¿t wander the neighborhood quite as freely as these kids do, children and dogs stay pretty much the same and, man, are they fun. The series of suggestions for how Henry should pull out his loose teeth is, alone, worth the price of the book. Get it for your kid ¿ and be sure to read it, again, yourself. - AnnaLovesBooks, 2008

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 26, 2007

    outstanding

    Henry and Ribsy is a very good book and this is how it goes . Henry wanted to go fishing with his dad but he had to keep His dog out of trouble so he could go fishing with his dad . He caught a giant salmon fish at the end of the fishing trip. He had his dad take the pictures of him holding the fish In the air. After that he felt very wonderful after catching that fish. Because he had dreamed of catching that giant salmon fish. And his dream came true because he did not give upon catching that fish that day. The reason why you should read this book is because This book will keep inspiring you to try harder and not To give up on anything at all.

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