Our favorite was Henry and the Clubhouse. Read Ramona first, and if you want to stay in that world, try Huggins. Cleary is nice, but she’s at her best with Ramona. I honestly don’t know if I have much more to say. Just a warning: you aren’t going to fall in love with Ramona laterally. His being a butthead is nothing compared to some more modern characters and situations my kids might read about.)Īlso, Ramona is not entirely consistent with her character in her namesake series. (Of course, this is all relative to the time period and place we are reading about. He wouldn’t act out, but he’d sure think some mean things. Yes, he is a little boy and little boys are often buttheads, but my kids were surprised by Henry’s internal dialogues and how annoyed he is by anyone who gets in his way. While we did enjoy the series, we found it did not quite live up to the Ramona series.Ī couple complaints: too many adverbs (those pesky, oft-unnecessary -ly words), and sometimes Huggins is a butthead. Beloved, award-winning children’s author Beverly Cleary, the self-described Girl from Yamhill, whose stories featuring such endearing and enduring characters as Ramona Quimby. We were once again lulled and charmed by the simple writing, the realistic characters, and the small things of suburban life.
We were once again drawn into life on Klickitat Street in 1950s Oregon. The first scene introduces Ribsy and he appears in all the books, more or less prominent. The Henry Huggins series contains the Ribsy series and meshes with the Ramona series.įor our second–and the second largest–character series by Cleary, we moved from Ramona to Henry and his beloved dog, Ribsy. They are, in chronological order, Henry Huggins (1950), Henry and Beezus (1952), Henry and Ribsy (1954), Henry and the Paper Route (1957), Henry and the Clubhouse (1962), and Ribsy. The Henry Huggins series of books by Beverly Cleary.
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