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Espionage-themed 1964 children'southward novel by Louise Fitzhugh

Harriet the Spy
Harriet the Spy (book) cover.jpg

First ever edition
Author Louise Fitzhugh
Illustrator Louise Fitzhugh
Genre Children'due south spy novel
Publisher Harper & Row

Publication date

 1964
Media type Impress (hardcover)
Pages 298 (first ed.)[1]
ISBN 978-0-440-41679-1 [ii]
OCLC 301132
LC Grade PZ7.F5768 Har[1]
Followed past The Long Surreptitious

Harriet the Spy is a children'due south novel written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh that was published in 1964. It has been chosen "a milestone in children'due south literature" and a "archetype".[three] [4] In the U.S. it ranked number 12 in The l Best Books for Kids and number 17 in The Superlative 100 Children's Novels on two lists generated in 2012.[5] [6]

It was followed past two "companion books", a sequel, The Long Clandestine (1965), and a prequel, Sport (1979).

Plot summary [edit]

In 1964, eleven-year-old Harriet M. Welsch is an aspiring author who lives in New York Urban center's Upper East Side. Harriet is precocious, ambitious and enthusiastic virtually her future career. Encouraged by her nanny, Catherine "Ole Golly," Harriet carefully observes others and writes her thoughts downwards in a notebook as practice for her futurity career, to which she dedicates her life. She follows an afternoon "spy route", during which she observes her classmates, friends, and people who reside in her neighborhood. 1 subject that Harriet observes is a local store, where the younger son Fabio cannot make annihilation of his career in contrast to the hardworking and loyal Bruno, and where the stock boy Joe Curry or "Little Joe" is eating in the storeroom and feeding homeless kids instead of working.

Harriet's best friends are Simon "Sport" Rocque, a serious male child who wants to be a CPA or a ball player, and Janie Gibbs, who wants to be a scientist. Harriet's enemies in her class are Marion Hawthorne, the teacher'south pet and self-appointed queen bee of her grade, and Marion's best friend and second-in-control, Rachel Hennessy.

Harriet enjoys having structure in her life. For example, she regularly eats tomato sandwiches and adamantly refuses to swallow other types of sandwiches. She also resists "girlie" activities, as when her parents expect her to attend dance school and she stubbornly refuses. Ole Golly gets Harriet to modify her listen on dance school by telling her the stories of Mata Hari.

Harriet's life changes abruptly when Ole Golly'southward suitor, Mr. Waldenstein, proposes and she accepts. Mrs. Welsch (who, ironically, had threatened to fire her earlier in a fit of panicked rage at finding Harriet missing in the middle of the night) exclaims, "You can't get out, what will we do without you?" Ole Golly replies that she had planned to go out shortly anyway, because she believes Harriet is old enough to intendance for herself. Harriet is crushed by the loss of her nanny, to whom she was very close. Her female parent and begetter, who take been largely absentee parents because of their obligations to work and social life, are at a loss to sympathise Harriet's feelings and are of picayune comfort to her.

At schoolhouse, during a game of tag, Harriet loses her notebook. Her classmates find it and are appalled at her brutally honest documentation of her opinions of them. For example, in the notebook she compares Sport to a "picayune quondam adult female" for his continual worrying about his male parent, and says that Marion Hawthorne is destined to grow upwardly to be a "lady Hitler." The students form a "Spy Catcher Society" in which they think up ways to make Harriet'south life miserable, such equally stealing her luncheon and passing nasty notes virtually her in class. When the kids orchestrate a prank to spill ink on Harriet and make information technology expect like an accident, it backfires when she slaps Marion in revenge, leaving a blue mitt print on Marion'south face.

Harriet regularly spies on the Spy Catcher Club through a back fence and concocts vengeful ways to punish them. She realizes the consequences of the mean things she wrote, but because she is injure and lonely, she thinks upwards special punishments for each member of the club. After getting into trouble for carrying out some of her plans, Harriet tries to resume her friendship with Sport and Janie as if nothing had ever happened, but they both decline her. Harriet stops doing schoolwork and spends all her fourth dimension in class writing in her notebook, making plans against the Spy Catcher Social club. She skips school for days at a time and stays in bed considering of depression. When her grades go downwards, Harriet's parents confiscate her notebook, which but depresses her farther.

Harriet's mother takes her girl to see a child psychiatrist, who advises Harriet's parents to go far affect with Ole Golly and enquire her to write to Harriet. In her letter of the alphabet, Ole Golly tells Harriet that if anyone ever reads her notebook, "you accept to exercise ii things, and y'all are not going similar either one of them. i: You have to apologize. two: Y'all take to lie. Otherwise y'all are going to lose a friend."

Meanwhile, dissension is rippling through the Spy Catcher Club. Marion and Rachel are calling all the shots, and Sport and Janie are tired of being bossed effectually. When they quit the club, most of their classmates do the aforementioned.

Harriet's parents speak with her teacher and the headmistress, and Harriet is appointed editor of the class newspaper, replacing Marion. The paper—featuring stories about the people on Harriet'southward spy route and the students' parents—becomes an instant success. Harriet also uses the paper to impress a retraction of the things she had written in her journal. Harriet is forgiven by Sport and Janie.

Reception [edit]

The book appeared on a 1964 list of "The Year's All-time Juveniles" in The New York Times Book Review.[vii] One 1965 reviewer called the volume "a brilliantly written, unsparing realistic story, a superb portrait of an boggling child".[viii] Some other reviewer found that it "captures the feelings, thoughts and situations of a modern urban center kid with remarkable clarity and dimension".[9] Withal, at to the lowest degree one reviewer in 1965 felt that the volume dealt with "disagreeable people and situations".[10] Although information technology was not called as one of the American Library Association (ALA) Notable Books for Children for 1964, years later it was included in a retrospective 1960–1964 ALA Notable Books List.[iii]

Information technology won a Sequoyah Volume Award in 1967.[xi] The paperback version was selected as one of the "Best in the Field" published during the previous sixteen months in a 1968 New York Times article.[12] In 1995, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies claimed that ii.five million copies of the book had been sold;[xiii] however, the book did not appear on a 2001 Publishers Weekly list of "hardcovers that take sold 750,000 copies and paperbacks that accept topped the i million re-create mark."[fourteen]

Whitney Matheson wrote on the USA Today site in 2002 that Harriet "attracts defended, lifelong supporters".[xv] Anita Silvey in 2004 selected it as one of the 100 best books for children.[sixteen] In 2005, the ex-CIA officeholder Lindsay Moran cited the Harriet the Spy series of books as an inspiration for her career.[17] It was included in a 2009 list of "Children's Classics" by The Horn Volume Magazine.[18]

In 2012 Harriet the Spy was ranked number 17 amongst all-time children'due south novels in a survey published by School Library Periodical.[6] Earlier that year, Time Out New York Kids ranked it number 12 among "The fifty Best Books for Kids".[5] Late in 2022 the same source ranked information technology number 34 in "The 73 all-time kids' books of all fourth dimension for families".[xix]

Despite its popularity, the book has been banned from some schools and libraries "because it was said to set a bad instance for children".[4] [twenty] [21] Forth with Are You lot There God?, Blubber, and Where the Sidewalk Ends, the book was challenged at a 1983 schoolhouse board coming together in Xenia, Ohio.[22] Proponents of the Xenia ban stated that the volume "teaches children to lie, spy, back-talk and curse", but the lath voted to proceed the books in the schoolhouse libraries.[22] [23]

Selected translations [edit]

  • Harriet - Spionage aller Art (German, 1968)
  • Harriet l'Espionne (French, 1980)
  • הרייט המרגלת (Hebrew, 1984, ISBN 9650302190)
  • Professione? Spia! (Italian, 1989, ISBN 8804322802)
  • スパイになりたいハリエットのいじめ解決法 / Supai ni naritai harietto no ijime kaiketsuhō (Japanese, 1995, ISBN 4061947303)
  • A Espiã (Portuguese, 1999, ISBN 8571646414)
  • Spiunia Harrietë (Albanian, 2016, ISBN 9789928219091)

Serial [edit]

Fitzhugh wrote two sequels to the book: The Long Underground (1965) and Sport (1979, published posthumously).[24] [25] Both books received mixed reviews.[26] [27]

Sport is a spin-off that focuses on Simon "Sport" Rocque, expanding upon his brief family unit background covered in Harriet the Spy. As his parents are divorced, Sport lives with his male parent who is a struggling writer who has been focusing on a book (a big gamble) rather than the steady income of journal/paper manufactures, with Sport managing their finances. Their fiscal problems are exacerbated one time Sport's gramps Simon Vane (from his mother'due south side) becomes terminally sick and stops sending regular payments to Sport. Things change for the ameliorate one time Sport's begetter meets the kind Kate who becomes a good stepmother. Notwithstanding Simon'southward will has named Sport as the main beneficiary to the $30 million family unit fortune, much to the chagrin of Sport's mother Charlotte Vane and her sis. Charlotte, an absentee mother who has been living well abroad in Europe nearly of the time, returns to New York City upon hearing of her begetter'southward illness, scheming to increase her share of Simon'southward inheritance by kidnapping Sport and imprisoning him in the Plaza Hotel for a week.[28]

In 2002, a sequel Harriet Spies Again appeared; written by Helen Ericson, it also received mixed reviews.[29] [30] [31] Another sequel, Harriet the Spy, Double Agent past Maya Gold, was published in 2005;[32] [33] 1 review of that book stated "there'south not much to involvement readers here."[34]

  • Harriet the Spy (Harper & Row, 1964); also Harriet, the Spy
  • The Long Secret (Harper & Row, 1965)
  • Sport (Dell Publishing/Delacorte Press, 1979), Fitzhugh[35]
  • Harriet Spies Again (Dell/Delacorte, 2002), Helen Ericson [and Fitzhugh][36]
  • Harriet the Spy, DoubleAgent (Dell/Delacorte, 2005), Maya Gold and Fitzhugh[37]

Adaptations [edit]

Film rights to the novel were bought past Herbert Swope in 1964.[38]

Harriet the Spy was fabricated into a 1996 film of the same name. It starred Michelle Trachtenberg and was the first film to exist produced past Nickelodeon'due south characteristic picture show division.

In September 2004, Mainframe Amusement appear that Protocol Entertainment volition produce a new Harriet the Spy live-action television series, consisting of at least 22 half-hour episodes, with ii Friends Entertainment acting as Executive Producers and The states sales amanuensis and Mainframe retaining international distribution rights.[39] [xl]

In March 2010, Disney Aqueduct aired a version of the story, Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars. This starred Wizards of Waverly Place cast member Jennifer Stone as Harriet, Alexander Conti from Cheaper by the Dozen ii as Harriet's friend Sport, and Degrassi: The Side by side Generation 's Melinda Shankar every bit Janie. In this film, Harriet competes confronting Marion Hawthorne to meet who has a meliorate blog.

In Baronial 2020, it was announced that Apple Goggle box+ had given the production a series order to an animated television receiver adaptation of the novel. The series volition be produced by The Jim Henson Company and Rehab Entertainment with Will McRobb equally writer, Sidney Clifton every bit producer and Terissa Kelton and John Due west. Hyde as executive producer and starring Beanie Feldstein as Harriet, Jane Lynch as Ole Golly, and Lacey Chabert as Marion Hawthorne.[41] The series was released on November 19, 2021.[42]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "Harriet, the spy". LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved Dec 29, 2014.
  2. ^ Unknown later Harper & Row edition OCLC 301132.
  3. ^ a b Elleman, Barbara (1987). "Current Trends in Literature for Children" (PDF). Library Trends. Graduate Schoolhouse of Library and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 35 (3): 413–26. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
  4. ^ a b Grant, Neva (March 3, 2008). "Unapologetically Harriet, the Misfit Spy". Morning Edition. NPR. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  5. ^ a b Bird, Elizabeth (March ane, 2012). "The 50 Best Books for Kids". Time Out New York Kids (timeout.com) . Retrieved March 22, 2013.
  6. ^ a b Bird, Elizabeth (June 12, 2012). "Top 100 Children'due south Novels #17: Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh". School Library Journal "A Fuse #viii Production" blog. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
  7. ^ "The Yr's All-time Juveniles". The New York Times Book Review. Dec vi, 1964. p. 52.
  8. ^ Goodwin, Polly (January 24, 1965). "The Inferior Bookshelf". Chicago Tribune. p. B7.
  9. ^ Taylor, Marking (February 21, 1965). "An Excellent Trio for Children". Los Angeles Times. p. B7.
  10. ^ Helson, Ravenna (1976). "Alter, Tradition, and Critical Styles in the Contemporary World of Children's Books". Children's Literature. 5 (1): 22–39. doi:10.1353/chl.0.0757.
  11. ^ "Children's Sequoyah Winners". Oklahoma Library Association. Archived from the original on May six, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
  12. ^ Woods, George; O'Connor, Margaret F. (Feb 25, 1968). "Best in the Field: For Children". New York Times Book Review: Paperbacks. Section seven, Part 2, pages 18 & 20.
  13. ^ Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies (December eight, 1995). "Michelle Trachtenberg is Harriet; Rosie O'Donnell Her Mentor in the Activity-Comedy "Harriet The Spy" (press release)". PR Newswire Association LLC. Archived from the original on July 5, 2015. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
  14. ^ Roback, Diane; Britton, Jason, eds. (December 17, 2001). "All-Fourth dimension Bestselling Children's Books". Publishers Weekly. 248 (51). Retrieved March 22, 2013.
  15. ^ Matheson, Whitney (June 27, 2002). "Still Spying After All These Years". USA Today . Retrieved March 22, 2013.
  16. ^ Silvey, Anita (2004). 100 Best Books for Children. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN0618278893.
  17. ^ Ensor, David (January 12, 2005). "Moran: 'It's a muddy business'". CNN. Retrieved March 16, 2013.
  18. ^ Burns, Mary Chiliad. (2009). "Children's Classics: A Booklist for Parents" (PDF). The Horn Book. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 24, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2013.
  19. ^ Bird, Elizabeth, and the editors (September 15, 2015). "The 73 best kids' books of all time for families" [twoscore to 37]. Time Out New York Kids (timeout.com). Retrieved October 27, 2015.
  20. ^ Brunner, Borgna (2007). "Banned Books From Harriet the Spy to The Catcher in the Rye". Data Delight. Pearson Education. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
  21. ^ Driscoll, Molly; O'Carroll, Eoin. "30 Banned Books That May Surprise You lot: 1. 'Harriet the Spy,' by Louise Fitzhugh". Christian Science Monitor . Retrieved March xvi, 2013.
  22. ^ a b Denger, Laurie (Oct 25, 1993). "Issues in Xenia Schools Boiling for Decade". Dayton Daily News.
  23. ^ Eichhorn-Hicks, Meghara (March 5, 2009). "Banning Books: Keeping Our Children Condom from the Perils of Gratuitous Thinking". Minneapolis Examiner.
  24. ^ Fitzhugh, Louise (1965). The Long Secret. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN0060214104.
  25. ^ Fitzhugh, Louise (1979). Sport. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN0440078865.
  26. ^ Sutton, Roger (July–August 2001). "Bring Out Your Dead". Horn Book Magazine. 77 (4). Archived from the original on May 24, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
  27. ^ Schmitz, Terri (September–October 2001). "Characters You Can Count On". Horn Book Magazine. 77 (5): 557–567.
  28. ^ "Sport".
  29. ^ Ericson, Helen (2002). Harriet Spies Again . New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN0385327862.
  30. ^ "Harriet Spies Once again by Helen Ericson (review)". Kirkus Reviews. March 1, 2002. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
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  32. ^ Gold, Maya (2005). Harriet the Spy, Double Agent. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN0385327870.
  33. ^ Carton, Debbie (September i, 2005). "Golden, Maya. Harriet the Spy, Double Agent (volume review)". Booklist. 102 (1): 132.
  34. ^ Le, Amanda Conover (January 2006). "Harriet the Spy, Double Agent (review)". School Library Journal. 52 (i). Archived from the original on April 11, 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2013.
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  37. ^ Formats and Editions of Harriet the spy, double agent. WorldCat. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  38. ^ Weiler, A. H. (June 26, 1966). "On Bing Barnum'south 'Moon'". The New York Times. Page D11.
  39. ^ PROTOCOL Amusement TO CREATE "HARRIET THE SPY" Alive-Action Series TO Be DISTRIBUTED BY MAINFRAME ENTERTAINMENT. [ dead link ]
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  41. ^ Alexandra Del Rosario (August 12, 2020). "'Harriet The Spy' Kids Animated Series Starring Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch & Lacey Chabert Ordered By Apple". Deadline Hollywood.
  42. ^ "Beanie Feldstein Plays the Titular Office in Start Trailer for 'Harriet the Spy' Animated Series". Collider. 13 October 2021.

Further reading [edit]

  • Molson, Francis J. (1974). "Another Await at Harriet the Spy". Unproblematic English. 51 (7): 963–970. doi:10.1353/chq.1991.0016.
  • Wolf, Virginia L. (1975). "Harriet the Spy". Children'southward Literature. 4 (1): 120–126. doi:10.1353/chl.0.0700.
  • Paul, Lissa (1989). "The Feminist Writer every bit Heroine in Harriet the Spy". The Lion and the Unicorn. thirteen (1): 67–73. doi:10.1353/uni.0.0433. S2CID 144852947.
  • John, Judith Gero (1991). "The Legacy of Peter Pan and Wendy: Images of Lost Innocence and Social Consequences in Harriet the Spy". Children'due south Literature Clan Quarterly 1991 Proceedings. 1991: 168–173. doi:x.1353/chq.1991.0016.
  • Bernstein, Robin (2000–2001). "'Too Realistic' and 'Also Distorted': The Set on on Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy and the Gaze of the Queer Child". Critical Matrix: The Princeton Periodical of Women, Gender, and Culture. 12 (1–2): Critical Matrix: The Princeton Journal of Women, Gender, and Culture.
  • Bernstein, Robin (2011). "The Queerness of Harriet the Spy". In Abate, Michelle Ann; Kidd, Kenneth B. (eds.). Over the Rainbow: Queer Children'southward and Young Developed Literature. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. pp. 111–120. ISBN978-0-472-07146-3.

External links [edit]

  • Aulenback, Stephany (v August 2003). "Harriet the Spy (book review)". Common Sense Media.

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