In this story, a young boy writes letters to his favorite author Mr. Henshaw about his trails in his life. He is recently going through a divorce with his parents, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world. His way of coping is writing letters to this author. ( )

This book is about a young boy who is assigned an assignment by his teacher that leads to be the cure to his struggle. The second grade boy was struggling with his parents being separated. As many know, young children have a major struggle when occurs in their life. The young boy, Leigh, finds an author, Mr. Henshaw to express all of his feelings and concerns to. Mr. Henshaw is out of the family picture and Leigh lays it out to him. It allows Leigh to vent to someone that he feels he can trust and it becomes lengthy relationship.
I really enjoyed this book. I read this story last year to my first grade class and it related to a lot of my students. Then I am intending for my 9 year daughter to begin to read this book soon. The story has a great story line and it relates to many young children in our society.
In the classroom, I would have my children write an author of choice.
In the classroom, I would have each student begin a journal writing to express the feelings each day.

Dear Mr. Henshaw is about Leigh, a young boy who wants to be a famous author one day. He writes letters to his favorite famous author, Mr. Henshaw. However, when he writes Mr. Henshaw a letter of questions for an assignment the author disappoints Leigh by not sending the reply in time for the assignments due date. To make matters worse the author replied with rude and sarcastic answers. Leigh eventually forgives Mr. Henshaw and takes his advice about writing in a diary to help him become a better writer. Leigh enters a young authors contest and gets honorable mention in the book and is rewarded by getting to meet a famous author. Even though it wasn't his famous pen pal author Leigh was still thrilled and continued practicing writing and every once in a while would write a letter to Mr. Henshaw.

I picked this book because when I was in elementary school I remember reading a few books that were written by Beverly Cleary. She was one of my favorite authors in school and I remember them being funny. However, this book was not as humorous as I remember some of the others being,however, I still liked the overall story.

I would have my students write a letter to their favorite authors. I would have my students start a journal and everyday they would write a paragraph in their journals about anything they wanted. It could be something that happened to them, something they couldn't wait for, or a short made up story. This would help them vent plus help them with their writing skills, because with everything practice makes perfect.

A boy, Leigh Boots, moves and becomes the new kid at a new school. Leigh comes from a broken home where his father is not around because he drives a truck across the country. When Leigh is presented with a letter writing project he decides to write his favorite author Mr. Henshaw. Surprisingly Mr. Henshaw responds to his letter and writes back. Mr. Henshaw's letters changes Leigh's life.

It is written in first person by a nine year old boy named Leigh Botts. He writes letters to his favorite author as a way to cope with his parents divorce. It chronicles the life of Leigh through sadness and disappointment while dealing with ordinary problems. ( )