{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Dear Mr. Henshaw is a juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary and illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1984. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its \"Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children\"."}, "links": [{"title": "beverlycleary.com/characters.aspx#Leigh", "url": "http://www.beverlycleary.com/characters.aspx#Leigh", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Dear Mr. Henshaw - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Mr._Henshaw", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "New York Times review", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/23/books/children-s-books-229920.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "title": "Dear Mr. Henshaw", "covers": [12447257], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "My teacher read your book about the dog to our class."}, "first_publish_date": "1983", "subject_people": ["Boyd  Henshaw", "Leigh Botts", "Mr. Fridley"], "key": "/works/OL151997W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL22132A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "Dear Mr. Henshaw, \r\nMy teacher read your book about the dog to our class.", "comment": "first sentence", "author": {"key": "/people/seabelis"}}], "subjects": ["Parent and child", "Letters", "Schools", "Divorce", "Juvenile fiction", "Fiction", "Newbery Medal", "Parent-child relationship", "Ecoles", "Marriage & Divorce", "Classics", "Friendship", "Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse", "School stories", "Family", "Lettres (Correspondance)", "Social Themes", "Parents et enfants", "Divorcio", "Novela", "Padres y hijos", "Escuelas", "Cartas", "Epistoloary fiction", "Children of divorced parents", "Understanding Others", "Communication and Language Development", "Divorce and Separation", "School Life", "Self Image and Identity", "Juvenile literature", "Spanish language materials", "juvenile works", "school", "families", "Emotions & Feelings", "Ficci\u00f3n juvenil", "Padres e hijos", "Children's fiction", "Divorce, fiction", "Schools, fiction", "Parent and child, fiction", "Large type books", "Letter writing", "New York Times reviewed", "Friendship, fiction", "Leigh Botts (Fictitious character)", "Botts, Leigh (Personaje literario)", "Novela juvenil", "Padre de familia e hijo", "FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY", "Spanish", "Spanish language", "\u00c9coles", "Schools dv Fiction", "Letters, fiction", "Adolescence, fiction", "award:Newbery_award", "lexile:910", "lexile_range:901-1000", "age:min:8", "age:max:10", "grade:min:3", "grade:max:7"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "dewey_number": ["[Fic]"], "subject_places": ["Central California", "Nevada", "Italy"], "genres": ["/tags/OL174T"], "latest_revision": 70, "revision": 70, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-19T23:22:20.267455"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-29T10:31:37.496202"}}