The commemorative edition includes a new map of Harriet’s Manhattan neighborhood and “spy route” tributes by 14 children’s book professionals a letter that Fitzhugh’s editor, Ursula Nordstrom, wrote to her when the book was published and early praise for the novel from poet Phyllis McGinley and author Elizabeth Janeway. On February 25, Delacorte, which acquired the rights to Fitzhugh’s Harriet books in 2000, will issue a 50th anniversary edition of Harriet the Spy. The author followed up that debut novel with two others featuring Harriet’s friends: The Long Secret, released in 1965, and Sport, published posthumously in 1979 (Fitzhugh died of a brain aneurysm in 1974 at the age of 46).
A classic in the US where it was first published and a major motion film from Paramount, Harriet the Spy is a beloved book throughout the world.An iconic children’s book heroine who observes friends, classmates, and neighbors – and holds nothing back in her notebook commentary – first came on the scene in 1964, when Harper & Row published Louise Fitzhugh’s Harriet the Spy. Harriet's only consolation is the love and the wise advice of her nanny who manages to get her through this difficult period in her life. She is no longer allowed to take notes - her parents, her teacher and even the cook search her every day for a contraband notebook. After her parents find out what's happened, Harriet receives a final, crushing blow. After a game in the park when her notebook is knocked out of her hands and read by her classmates, Harriet's innermost thoughts are revealed and she is shunned by all her classmates, who form the Spycatcher's Club. Harriet's downfall is that she also writes notes about people she actually knows.
She writes brutally honest notes on them all.
Harriet observes the rich lady who never gets out of bed the man with twenty-five cats and the Italian family who runs a grocery store. After school every day, she takes her notebook and proceeds through her spy route. Sixth-grader Harriet attends school on the New York's Upper East Side along with her two best pals, Sport and Janie. First published by HarperCollinsUS in 1964, this classic children's novel has sold over 4 million copies and was awarded the New York Times Outstanding Book Award.
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