Dear Mr. Henshaw, I wish somebody would stop stealing the good
stuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things,
too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pull up in front in the
rig ... Dad would yell out of the cab, "Come on, Leigh. Hop in and
I''ll give you a lift to school."Leigh Botts has been author Boyd
Henshaw''s number one fan ever since he was in second grade. Now in
sixth grade, Leigh lives with his mother and is the new kid at
school. He''s lonely, troubled by the absence of his father, a
cross-country trucker, and angry because a mysterious thief steals
from his lunchbag. Then Leigh''s teacher assigns a letter-writing
project. Naturally Leigh chooses to write to Mr. Henshaw, whose
surprising answer changes Leigh''s life.
關於作者：
Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she
was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town
so small it had no library. Her mother arranged with the State
Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a
lodge room upstairs over a bank. There Mrs. Cleary learned to love
books. When the family moved to Portland, where Mrs. Cleary
attended grammar school and high school, she soon found herself in
the low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy
for the problems of struggling readers. By the third grade she had
conquered reading and spent much of her childhood either with books
or on her way to and from the public library. Before long her
school librarian was suggesting that she should write for boys and
girls when she grew up. The idea appealed to her, and she decided
that someday she would write the books she longed to read but was
unable to find on the library shelves, funny stories about her
neighborhood and the sort of children she knew.
After graduation from junior college in Ontario, California, and
the University of California at Berkeley, Mrs. Cleary entered the
School of Librarianship at the University of Washington, Seattle.
There she specialized in library work with children. She was
Children''s Librarian in Yakima, Washington, until she married
Clarence Cleary and moved to California. The Clearys are the
parents of twins, now grown. Mrs. Cleary''s hobbies are travel and
needlework.
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