I have to say, I’m glad I took the chance, because of the three, this wound up being my favorite.įirst and foremost, I found this book much easier to read than the other two. (The full story on that is written up very nicely here, on a blog called Harriet the Spy: the Unauthorized Biography.) Still, I was curious about the differences between Sport and the two titles that were so well-received while Fitzhugh was alive - Harriet the Spy and The Long Secret. I had some reservations when I first decided to read Sport, because I knew it had been rejected by Louise Fitzhugh’s publisher in her lifetime, and was only published later on, after she died. When she doesn’t get her way right off the bat, Sport finds himself kidnapped! This prompts his mother to become suddenly interested in her son’s well-being and she begins trying to gain custody of Sport in place of his dad. Early in the story, Sport’s grandfather passes away, leaving Sport a significant sum of money. Welch’s best friends, lives with his dad ,who is an excellent parent, though he is not wealthy or sophisticated like Sport’s mother.
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