Each mini adventure along Ribsy’s trek back to Klickitat Street is exciting and kids will love getting inside a dog’s brain as Ribsy tries to understand a cast of lovable characters. A familiar Homeward Bound-esque story about a lost dog struggling to find home again, Ribsy is entertaining and manages to feel original. Henry and Ribsy sure have some adventures.Ribsy was a very fun book to read, and it works perfectly fine as a standalone book-that is, you don’t have to read other Beverly Cleary books first, though it might be even more delightful if you have so that you can appreciate a few small passages, like when the stranger girl Ramona comes up and annoys Ribsy. I mean, if I was starving, really starving, not hyperbole-starving, I would eat a horse, but as I have never been in that situation, I have never had to eat a horse. I don’t like the idea of people buying horse meat to feed their dogs because of how intelligent horses are. I don’t like the idea of people consuming horses because of how intelligent they are. Horse meat, as in horses, that are really super smart, and loyal, and live a long time. I know it was just the time, but this bothers me–Henry feeds Ribsy horse meat. It’s not funny when it’s your own cat that has done it. Like, I used to think it was hilarious when my mom used to come home and find that one of her cats had shredded a roll of paper towels. It’s funny when it’s not your animal doing all the mischief, then you can laugh.

This dog certainly sounds like he gets into it. Henry is allowed to go on the fishing trip where he and Ribsy make quite the catch. Henry realizes that Ribsy was only trying to protect what he saw as Henry’s property and thus the problem seemed to be resolved.

He eats the policeman’s lunch and Henry just knows he’s going to be in a ton of trouble, but the policeman isn’t too angry about it.Īt home, Henry is supposed to take out the garbage, but Ribsy doesn’t like the garbage man, so the garbage man skips trash pickup at Henry’s house for a week. He also happens to sniff around a police car, where a policeman’s lunch is. At the shop Henry gets to stay in the car, but Ribsy hops out and sniffs around the shop. On the way to the shop, Henry’s father tells him about a fishing trip he’s planning and Henry wants to go fishing and catch salmon, maybe a Chinook. It’s something that he’s been wanting to try out for a while. Henry wants to stay in the car as it goes up on the rack more than anything. One particular Saturday his dad takes him along to get the oil changed in the car. Henry is looking forward to doing a lot of things.

Ribsy by beverly cleary