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In the News (Sun 6 Dec 09)

  
  HARRIET THE SPY
Harriet tells Sport and Janie that if anyone sees their secret tattoos there should be quick deaths and all three kids imitate holding a gun to their heads and pulling the trigger.
Harriet mentions that one of the girls in their class spent the summer "growing boobs" and when the girl bends over to pick up something off the floor, the boys in the class scramble to get a good look at her.
Harriet picks up some object (we couldn't tell what it was) and throws it at her parents when they confront her about her retaliation toward the other students.
www.screenit.com /movies/1996/harriet_the_spy.html   (2067 words)

  
  Film review: 'Harriet the Spy' told from kid's point of view   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Harriet the Spy, which opens today, is not cut from the usual kids' movie cloth.
Harriet the Spy is told from a kid's point of view, and that may be its greatest accomplishment.
Harriet is neither the saccharin, cute child nor the smarter-than-everyone brat of most kid movies.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/07/10/harriet.html   (1054 words)

  
 The Spy Who Came In for Cake & Milk
Harriet wants to grow up to a writer, and in the interest of pursuing that goal, has been following a daily "spy" route--and keeping a series of notebooks detailing the doings of her family, friends and neighbors--since she was eight, and "wrote so big my regular route took almost the whole book".
Harriet knows the first rule of spying, "Spies--should not get caught." But one fateful day, while she is distracted, her classmates find, and read, her spy notebook.
Harriet writes, "That was a scene I am glad I saw, because I would have guessed that Mama Dei Santi would have bopped him over the head but when she saw the children she burst into tears and commenced wailing and giving the kids everything in sight....
www.moshplant.com /prob/prob01/spy_cake.html   (1138 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Harriet the Spy: Books: Louise Fitzhugh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Harriet is girl from rich family living in the heart of New York, most of the time she spends with her governess and 2 school friends.
Harriet is a very funny but cheeky eleven year old child she goes on many adventures spying on people in her neighbourhood and writing bad things about them even her best friends Sport and Janie.
Harriet does nothing but write in her notebook until one day she was playing in the park and she dropped her notebook then her friends found it and read it.
www.amazon.co.uk /Harriet-Spy-Louise-Fitzhugh/dp/0060219114   (607 words)

  
 After 37 years of delight, Classic 'Harriet the Spy' tales get classic editions
To celebrate the continuing interest in "Harriet the Spy," Delacorte Press recently reissued the book in a new "classic edition." Delacorte also republished two other Harriet books, "The Long Secret" and "Sport." All of the books cost $15.95 each, feature striking line drawings by Fitzhugh and are aimed at kids ages 9-12.
Although Harriet is naturally curious, she sees her spying as "work" and an important preparation for her goal of being a writer.
Harriet's life is a mess, all right, and it's not clear what is the best path for her to take.
www.post-gazette.com /books/20010626corner0626fnp2.asp   (905 words)

  
 Amazon.frĀ : Harriet The Spy, Double Agent: Livres en anglais: Maya Gold,Louise Fitzhugh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Harriet the Spy is back, and Gold does a credible job of maintaining the special character and her crusty charm.
Harriet's best friend, Sport, has a tongue-tied crush on Annie, and Harriet herself is rather taken with this mysterious girl, who has secrets that Harriet feels compelled to uncover.
Annie turns out to be a natural spy, and as she joins Harriet in her efforts to uncover the mystery of the Korean grocer and a Christmas tree lot, Harriet tries to figure out what Annie herself is hiding.
www.amazon.fr /Harriet-Double-Agent-Maya-Gold/dp/0385327870   (549 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy - Movie Rental Review
Harriet's interest in observing the world around her may inspire children to do the same.
Harriet's endeavor suffers a setback when Golly and her parents decide that she no longer needs to have a nanny.
Harriet learns that there is more to people than just the superficial details that she notes in her book.
www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Harriet-Spy.html   (629 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy | Plot | MTV Movies
Harriet wants to be a writer when she grows up, and only Golly encourages her creative pursuits.
Meanwhile, Harriet dons a yellow raincoat and a belt full of gadgets to spy on everyone around her, including her eccentric neighbor with a lot of cats and the other kids at school.
Harriet's world begins to change when Golly leaves, signaling that it is time for her to grow up.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/94558/plot.jhtml   (395 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harriet the Spy is a novel for children by Louise Fitzhugh, published in 1964.
Harriet M. Welsch is an outgoing 11-year-old girl aspiring to be a spy.
Harriet's parents speak with her teacher, and she is appointed editor of the class newspaper (replacing Marion Hawthorne).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harriet_the_Spy   (1482 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Books: Review - Harriet the Spy
Harriet is the brightest girl in her class, intent on being a real spy and a real writer.
More an outsider now than ever, Harriet must cope with the spite of her classmates and a lack of comprehension from her kind but distracted socialite parents.
Fitzhugh is gentle but unsparing in her portrayal of the mixed innocence and malice of pre-adolescents, and she steers Harriet wisely through her crisis to a believable resolution.
www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:79655   (366 words)

  
 Buy.com - Harriet the Spy : Louise Fitzhugh : ISBN 9780440416791
Harriet M. Welsch is an 11-year-old girl who spends her days going to school, playing with friends, and spying on strangers.
As a result, Harriet is one of the most fully realized, authentic characters to appear in print--certainly one of the first such characters to appear in a book written for children.
HARRIET THE SPY (1964) marked the beginning of modern realistic fiction for children, as its main character, 11-year-old Harriet M. Welsh, is considerably more cynical and less intellectually innocent than characters previously found in children's books.
www.buy.com /prod/harriet_the_spy/q/loc/106/30607808.html   (634 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh - Book Review
Harriet M. Welsch may be skilled in writing and espionage, but she is not a particularly pleasant person.
Harriet is upset when her nanny quits, and deeply troubled when her classmates shun her.
Harriet spies on her neighbors, going so far as to sneak into their houses.
www.commonsensemedia.org /book-reviews/Harriet-Spy.html   (606 words)

  
 MMI Review: Harriet, The Spy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"Harriet, The Spy" is a movie for kids that grownups can sit through without even being chloroformed.
Harriet, for the uninitiated, is the heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's classic 1964 novel about a sixth grade girl who scrutinises the people around her and records her observations in her daily journal.
Still, her enthusiasm and affection for the characters are obvious and she couldn't have chosen a more winning Harriet than Trachtenberg.
www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/harriet.html   (230 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As you read Harriet the Spy consider the fact that it has been challenged and banned numerous times.
In American Childhood: Essays on Children's Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Anne Scott MacLeod argues that the publication of Harriet the Spy in 1964 marks a transformation in American children's culture.
Harriet loses, for example, her notebook, her friends, and Ole Golly.
www.d.umn.edu /~csigler/harriet_the_spy.html   (528 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy
Activity #3: (DISCUSSION) Ole Golly was more than just a character in this novel; she functioned as a symbol in Harriet's growth.
Discuss what you think Ole Golly represented and why she was so vital to Harriet's story.
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh was published in 1964 by HarperCollins Inc., NY NY.
www.ncsu.edu /globalbookclub/harriet.html   (164 words)

  
 TNPC
Although Harriet certainly does write up a storm, although she does see a great deal, although clearly she tells straight truths about matters regarding which adults would be more circumspect--although all that's true--nonetheless, the voluminous writings are, in every way, childish.
Were Harriet merely a truth-telling Demosthenes, an infant philosopher, a wise child, the book would lack entirely the dimension of Harriet's own shortcomings and her downright disagreeableness.
Harriet looks at them and tries truly to focus on someone else, she empathizes, she thinks how they feel.
www.tnpc.com /revharri.html   (1129 words)

  
 Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Harriet is a well-fleshed character with flaws and needs that she fills and covers up by meticulously recording the world around her in a notebook.
Harriet and her two best friends are verging.
I have heard from a friend with young children that, after seeing the movie version, her children cried and asked why they were so mean to Harriet.
www.rambles.net /fitzhugh_harrietspy.html   (502 words)

  
 "Harriet the Spy" / a review from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Harriet M. Welsch is an 11-year-old spy want-to-be.
She is only in the sixth grade but she's already an ace: very little happens in her neighborhood without Harriet seeing it and writing it down in her secret "Private" notebooks.
She wants to see everything and know everything and so (as she writes in her spy book) "That is why I am a spy!" Guided by her friend/mentor/nanny, Golly (Rosie O'Donnell) she's learning a lot about life, and a lot about her neighbors, in hopes of someday being a famous author.
www.christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/pre2000/i-hariet.html   (586 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Harriet the Spy, Double Agent (Harriet the Spy Adventures) by Maya Fitzhugh\gold
Harriet is impressed to learn that the girl she has befriended, now called Annie Smith, is the person who not only created three names–Rosarita Sauvage, Yolanda Montezuma, and Zoe Carpaccio–but also three distinct personalities to match.
But then Harriet realizes that Annie reveals very little about herself, and indeed, is not telling the truth about where she goes and who she meets on the weekend.
But as Harriet unravels Annie’s mystery, she comes to appreciate the many different kinds of love there are.
www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0385327870   (339 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For those sadly deprived, here's the gist: eleven-year-old Harriet observes and takes notes on family, classmates, and neighbors in her Upper East Side Manhattan neighborhood.
"The genius of Harriet the Spy is that it explores the experiences of an outsider content to be one." --Virginia L. Wolf, Louise Fitzhugh, p.
Harriet the Spy: A Hero for the 90s.
www.celiathepoet.org /harriet.html   (147 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Harriet The Spy [1997]: DVD: Michelle Trachtenberg,Gregory Smith,Vanessa Lee Chester,Rosie O'Donnell,J. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
However, when this falls into thewrong hands, things go terribly wrong for Harriet and she is left with nofriends apart from her nanny.
Harriet is a ten year old girl who whants to become a spy and goes on many adventures.
Harriet is alienated and sets out to get her revenge.
www.amazon.co.uk /Harriet-Spy-Michelle-Trachtenberg/dp/B0000A5BT0   (658 words)

  
 Review of Harriet the Spy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Being a spy was a good job, according to Harriet (Michelle Trachtenberg.) Being a spy was only a high pressure job when you were caught, according to Golly (Rosie O'Donnell.)
Harriet the Spy is a about an 11 year old girl named Harriet, who is a spy.
Everyday she went on a spy route and wrote down in her notebook what she saw.
www.worldkids.net /entertainment/movies/reviews/36.html   (128 words)

  
 Parent Previews: Harriet The Spy
Within these pages is everything Harriet has observed as she keeps an eye on each of her friends.
The problem is that Harriet records facts and opinions, so when she accidentally leaves her notebook where her classmates can find it, her innermost thoughts are exposed, and Harriet is shunned by everyone.
In other regards, Harriet may provide an accurate view of life as seen by a sixth grader, and should be of interest to most viewers over the age of ten.
movies.go.com /parentpreviews/review?rid=192   (336 words)

  
 Harriet The Spy - Moviefone
Rating: PG Synopsis: The first feature film from the Nickelodeon cable channel, Harriet the Spy is an updated version of Louise Fitzhugh's best-selling 1964 children's...
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movies.aol.com /movie/harriet-the-spy/2319/main   (174 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy
Synopsis: Harriet M Welsch is a savvy spy.
Every day, disguised in her foolproof spy outfit, the fearless sixth-grader travels her spy route, cannily observing the world around her and scribbling even the minutest detail into her secret spy notebook.
Harriet is determined to be a famous writer when she grows up.
www.killermovies.com /h/harrietthespy   (168 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy - Rotten Tomatoes
The film adaptation of Louise Fitzhugh's bestselling children's novel, about Harriet, an independent, intelligent girl whose aspiration to become a writer ultimately lands her in some very hot water...
Like the novel, Harriet the Spy is a rare children's story that celebrates the budding artistic spirit.
Harriet the Spy is an intelligent, insightful look at the tribulations of being a creative, misunderstood misfit at age eleven.
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1072990-harriet_the_spy   (681 words)

  
 Literature: "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh | eThemes | eMINTS
Literature: "Harriet the Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh
These sites are about the book, "Harriet the Spy." There are suggested classroom activities, such as having students keep a journal of their observations.
This lesson plan has students become spies and keep their own diaries in which they record their observations.
www.emints.org /ethemes/resources/S00001114.shtml   (595 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy and other book/book club resources - FamilyEducation.com
Harriet M Welsch, otherwise known as Harriet the Spy, is an 11-year-old aspiring author.
Upon reading her observations, Harriet's classmates turn against her, and her life is turned upside-down.
Their revenge is almost intolerable to Harriet, who begins to act out her rage by refusing to go to school.
school.familyeducation.com /reading-fun/fiction/37750.html   (516 words)

  
 Harriet the Spy (Harriet the Spy) by Louise Fitzhugh
Thirty-two years before it was made into a movie, Harriet the Spy was a groundbreaking book: its unflinchingly honest portrayal of childhood problems and emotions changed children's literature forever.
The fascinating story is about an intensely curious and intelligent girl, who literally spies on people and writes about them in her secret notebook, trying to make sense of life's absurdities.
Fitzhugh's writing is astonishingly vivid, real and engaging, and Harriet, by no means a typical, loveable heroine, is one of literature's most unforgettable characters.
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /f/louise-fitzhugh/harriet-spy.htm   (266 words)

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