"When Beverly Cleary's fictional Henry Huggins made his debut in 1950, he was a third grader whose "hair looked like a scrubbing brush and most of his grown-up front teeth were in." He was also bored. Apart from having his tonsils out and falling out of a cherry tree, "nothing much happened to Henry." But pretty soon after we meet him, by page three in fact, Henry comes upon a scrawny mutt who stares at him eating an ice cream cone and the adventures begin."
""When Henry licked, he licked. When Henry swallowed, he swallowed," Cleary wrote of the dog. Henry adopts the hungry stray, calls him Ribsy and the two become fast, fun-loving friends prone to mishaps. "I thought he was the coolest little kid," said writer Joe Bonomo who started reading Henry Huggins books growing up in Wheaton, Md., in the 1970s. "And not in the conventional way of that word.""
When Henry Huggins debuted in 1950 he was a bored third grader with 'hair looked like a scrubbing brush and most of his grown-up front teeth were in.' Apart from minor incidents like having his tonsils out and falling out of a cherry tree, little happened to him until he found a scrawny mutt by page three. Henry adopts the hungry stray, names him Ribsy, and the pair become fast, fun-loving friends prone to mishaps. Readers like Joe Bonomo recalled relating to Henry's allowance walks, solitude, and imaginative play. Michael Dirda credited Henry Huggins with teaching him to read and noted a personal connection through a skinny dog.
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