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Title: Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson, Robert McCloskey ISBN: 0-14-034144-7 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: May, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Henry Reed, Inc.
Comment: This is the first book in the Henry Reed series.
Henry Reed is a young teen living overseas because his father is an American diplomat. His parents decide to send him to rural New Jersey to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle. Henry fears boredom, but within the space of the first few days, he adopts a stray beagle and meets Midge Glass, who becomes his friend and business partner during this and subsequent summers.
Henry and Midge attempt to start a research company using his uncle's old barn and stray animals acquired along the way, but in what is to become a recurrent theme across the series, roadblocks, most of them humorous, result in anything but a routine venture.
This book, and the subsequent books in the series, are well-written, vivid in their imagery, and brimming with facts hidden in the context of a well-told story. The subject matter is appropriate for pre-teens and teens and there is no objectionable material for parents to be concerned about.
This and subsequent books suffer from an unavoidable culture clash between the period the books were written (this first one was in 1959), and today's faced-paced, electronic environment. Pre-teens and teens will have no trouble with the themes and concepts in the story, but may need to look up some antiquated things (presumably not many teens in today's Princeton, New Jersey know what a sickle bar is).
Highly recommended, but with a caution on the cultural relevance to today's children.
Rating: 5
Summary: A hilarious book fit to rival Cleary and Blume
Comment: Henry Reed, Inc. is the first part of a series of children's books that are sadly underrated and unknown. Henry and Midge are two main characters the reader can truly get to know and fall in love with. The mini-adventures they have in their little pocket of suburbia are just the right mix of realism and absurdity that is sure to delight. Henry and Midge are everyboy and everygirl: ordinary kids who somehow rise above the mundane into the ether of hilarity. Look out Ramona, look out Superfudge -- Henry and Midge are here!
Rating: 4
Summary: An Adventure Book
Comment: (Review by a nine-year-old third-grader, who read this book for a home school assignment)
Henry Reed's story starts out when, for vacation, Henry goes to the USA. He has all kinds of adventures. Henry starts a research business. Then he meets a girl named Midge who wants to be part of his business. She says that she will give him two rabbits if he lets her join, but she only has one.
One adventure happens when Midge and Henry make a balloon and their dog and the neighbor's cat and a dead pigeon go up in the balloon. The cat jumps on his owner's roof and stays there for about a day.
I liked this book because their adventures are very exciting.
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Title: Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service by Keith Robertson, Robert McCloskey ISBN: 0140341463 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: May, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Homer Price (Puffin) by Robert McCloskey ISBN: 0140309276 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1976 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Centerburg Tales by Robert McCloskey ISBN: 014031072X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1977 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club by Bertrand R. Brinley, Charles Geer, Charles Greer ISBN: 1930900228 Publisher: Purple House Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Mad Scientists' Club by Bertrand R. Brinley, Charles Geer ISBN: 1930900104 Publisher: Purple House Press Pub. Date: 03 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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