![]() ![]() Not having many friends at school and the problems he is having with ![]() His parents' divorce and how much he misses his dad. Pretend Henshaw." This makes Dear Mr Henshaw aĪloud to your class when trying to inspire students in either ofĬleary covers a number of different personal and family issues that many The format is clever, told through a combination Pretend Henshaw", since Leigh feels better if he's writing to someone. Henshaw's advice, and the letters turn into a journal-with entries addressed to "Dear Mr. Leigh wants to be a writer too, so follows Mr. ![]() This one letter becomes the first of many over the next few years, until the busy author suggests to Leigh that he keep a journal. In the story, second-grader Leigh's favorite book is Ways to Amuse a Dog by Boyd Henshaw, so he writes to the author to let him know that he "licked" the book. Henshaw is a classic middle grades chapter book that kids love today just as much as they did two decades ago when it first came out and became that year's Newbery Medal winner. ![]()
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