He was portrayed by Hutch Dano in the movie Ramona and Beezus. But when Ribsy’s original owner appears, trying to reclaim his dog, Henry’s faced with the possibility of losing his new best friend. From that moment on, the two are inseparable. Henry appeared only rarely in the Ramona series, as a supporting character. Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens, a friendly dog sits down beside him and looks pleadingly at his ice-cream cone. The Ramona series ultimately surpassed the Henry Huggins series in popularity. He has a dog named Ribsy and a part-time job doing a paper route in North Portland.Ĭleary, a librarian, wrote the first Henry Huggins book in 1950, in response to the boys in her library searching for books "about boys like us." Cleary later launched a new series about one of the supporting characters, Ramona Quimby. The books describe adventures that he experiences in his neighborhood and his interactions with other neighborhood children. The novels take place in the 1950s, which is when Cleary wrote most of the books. In the novels, he is in elementary school. Ribsy: The final book in the Henry Huggins series focuses on his dog, Ribsy. He is a young boy living on Klickitat Street in Portland, Oregon. Henry Huggins is a character appearing in a series of children's literature novels by Beverly Cleary, illustrated by Louis Darling, and first appearing in Henry Huggins.
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