From: Julie K Kline <cla>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 09:03:21 -0500 (CDT)

I would like to echo many of the comments that Megan made about Harriet the Spy. It was one of my absolutely favorite books as well, and one of the books to which I continue to allude in my adult daily life. (I took a modern dance class recently and felt like Harriet practicing being an onion...)

I admired Harriet because she was such a definite individual. Quirky and never a conformist, which is a hard fight at that age. I remember her likes and dislikes sometimes better than my own. I've not yet had a tomato sandwich or an egg cream, but the prospect of both continues to appeal to me.

On a tangential note, I was disappointed at the cover art I noticed recently on Harriet the Spy paperbacks. Long blond pigtails? That's not the Harriet that I know.


Julie Kline UW-Milwaukee
Received on Tue 02 Jul 1996 09:03:21 AM CDT