Beverly Cleary's fictional third grader with an adopted dog named Ribsy made his debut in 1950. Cleary was praised for writing simple, humorous... Happy 75th birthday to Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby's ...

Dad loses his job. Starts smoking because the stress is getting to him. Mom has to get a job to make ends meet. No, it's not reality television. It's the next Youth Theater production at the Sioux ...

When Beverly Cleary's fictional Henry Huggins made his debut in 1950, he was a third grader whose "hair looked like a scrubbing brush and most of his grown-up front teeth were in." He was also bored.