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Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
Harriet wants to be a writer, therefore she must practice. She writes down everything in her notebook, everything she sees and everything people say and do around her.I reread this book so many times as a kid. I had the movie tie-in cover which is now much loved as evidence by the very crinkled cover. I don’t remember a lot of the little details, but I have always had an affection for this book. This was probably reinforced by the movie, but to be honest, it was a great movie.
This book is a great example of what happens if you write down everything about everyone and then they find out about it. I remember the book being a lot more serious than the blurb makes it sound like. As a kid I guess these things are more dire and I just remember the feeling I experienced when the others find Harriet’s notebook. The second hand mortification I felt stays with me now. It was the most intense and climactic thing I had read since being stressed about Bastian in The Never Ending Story.
This is a timeless story because it has good lessons in it for kids, it's also highly entertaining.
A version of this review was published on my blog Lost in a Good Book
This book is a great example of what happens if you write down everything about everyone and then they find out about it. I remember the book being a lot more serious than the blurb makes it sound like. As a kid I guess these things are more dire and I just remember the feeling I experienced when the others find Harriet’s notebook. The second hand mortification I felt stays with me now. It was the most intense and climactic thing I had read since being stressed about Bastian in The Never Ending Story.
This is a timeless story because it has good lessons in it for kids, it's also highly entertaining.
A version of this review was published on my blog Lost in a Good Book