{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Henry and Ribsy is the third book in the Henry Huggins series of humorous children's novels written by Beverly Cleary. Henry's dad has promised to take him salmon fishing on one condition \u2013 he has to keep his dog Ribsy out of trouble for two months. That's not easy to do, especially when Ramona Quimby gets involved. First published in 1954, Henry and Ribsy was originally illustrated by Louis Darling."}, "links": [{"url": "https://www.beverlycleary.com/characters/henry", "title": "beverlycleary.com/characters/henry", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "http://viaf.org/viaf/309279540", "title": "VIAF ID: 309279540 (Work)", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Henry and Ribsy - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_and_Ribsy", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"url": "http://ikuoreviews.blogspot.com/2013/02/henry-and-ribsy-3-by-beverly-cleary.html", "title": "Henry and Ribsy (Henry Huggins #3) by Beverly ... - IReviews", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "title": "Henry and Ribsy", "covers": [9400466, 10582460, 10521909, 9400937, -1], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "One warm Saturday morning in August, Henry Huggins and his mother and father were eating breakfast in their square white house on Klickitat Street."}, "subject_places": ["Klickitat Street"], "first_publish_date": "October 18, 1923", "subject_people": ["Henry Huggins", "Ribsy"], "key": "/works/OL151966W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL22132A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "excerpts": [{"excerpt": "One warm Saturday morning in August, Henry Huggins and his mother and father were eating breakfast in their square white house on Klickitat Street.", "author": {"key": "/people/seabelis"}, "comment": "first sentence"}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Parents", "Pets", "Dogs", "Chinook salmon", "Fiction", "Juvenile audience", "boys", "juvenile fiction", "animals", "humorous stories", "social themes", "friendship", "juvenile works", "Fiction, general", "Huggins, henry (fictitious character), fiction", "Children's fiction", "Dogs, fiction", "Literature and fiction, juvenile", "Henry Huggins (Fictitious character)", "Ribsy (Fictitious character)", "Fishing stories", "Fishing", "Friendship, fiction", "Literature and fiction, women authors", "Pathology"], "lc_classifications": ["PZ7.C5792 Hc"], "latest_revision": 31, "revision": 31, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-19T23:22:20.267455"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-02T09:56:56.891866"}}