Leigh come to understand and accept his family situation and even make aįew friends. Will certainly relate to this character and feel encouraged to watch The voice feels authentic forĪ boy his age, and children experiencing family break-up or loneliness Students stealing food from his lunch box. Not having many friends at school and the problems he is having with His parents' divorce and how much he misses his dad. Pretend Henshaw." This makes Dear Mr Henshaw aĪloud to your class when trying to inspire students in either ofĬleary covers a number of different personal and family issues that many The format is clever, told through a combination Pretend Henshaw", since Leigh feels better if he's writing to someone. Henshaw's advice, and the letters turn into a journal-with entries addressed to "Dear Mr. Leigh wants to be a writer too, so follows Mr.
This one letter becomes the first of many over the next few years, until the busy author suggests to Leigh that he keep a journal. In the story, second-grader Leigh's favorite book is Ways to Amuse a Dog by Boyd Henshaw, so he writes to the author to let him know that he "licked" the book. Henshaw is a classic middle grades chapter book that kids love today just as much as they did two decades ago when it first came out and became that year's Newbery Medal winner.
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