![]() There, the “Charlie Brown” or “Arthur”-like neighborhood is always bustling with cheery children and parents whose funny adventures around town entertain and inspire a young reader. Henshaw” is a thoroughly lonely book, perhaps more fitting for pandemic times than the more popular and numerous volumes of the Henry Huggins or Ramona Quimby series - both of which feature social, middle-class adolescence on Klickitat Street in Portland, Ore. ![]() That ‘try’ produced one of her more lasting additions to the children’s literary canon. “And I had never thought about it, but I said I’d - give it a try,” she said. Henshaw” at the behest of two letters from children asking for a book about a child of divorce. In fact, as she explained in a 2019 interview for WETA, Cleary wrote “Dear Mr. ![]() Henshaw” stands out as sad far sadder than any of her other works. Henshaw” takes on new meaning, as protagonist Leigh navigates an unromanticized and bittersweet childhood full of loneliness and struggles against an elusive father figure. After a year of isolation, Beverly Cleary’s 1983 Newbery-winning “Dear Mr. ![]()
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