Rereading Our Childhood
Revisiting the children's books that made us who we are today
Rereading Our Childhood
Rereading Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Mary Grace and Deborah discuss Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh’s 1964 classic about an 11-year-old would-be writer, her spying career, and her interactions with her nanny, her classmates, and her parents.
Discussed on this episode:
Other books in the series:
The Long Secret (1965)
Sport (1979, published posthumously)
Other books by Fitzhugh:
Suzuki Beane, a parody of Eloise, written by Sandra Scoppettone and illustrated by Fitzhugh.
Nobody’s Family Is Going to Change (1974).
Deborah's Q&A with Leslie Brody, author of the Fitzhugh biography Sometimes You Have to Lie (2020).
The animated TV series of Harriet the Spy (There's a link to the (free) first episode at Rotten Tomatoes.
A review of the Harriet the Spy animated series.
Recommended for fans of Harriet the Spy: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg (1967) and, for older kids, the work of author M.E. Kerr.
A New Yorker Article about Louise Fitzhugh.
You can find Deborah’s author interviews on her blog, Books Q&A by Deborah Kalb, and Mary Grace’s adventures in the 1920s on her blog, My Life 100 Years Ago.
This episode was edited by Adam Linder of Bespoken Podcasting.
#children's books
Podcast website at rereadingourchildhood.com
