![]() ![]() ![]() The unimaginable happens you see, when Ole Golly marries Mr. ![]() It is also the story of the precarious emotional journey Harriet makes from the secure, nurturing relationship with Ole Golly, to a temporarily less secure maturity without her beloved mentor. A girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do! Plumber whom Harriet spies on by sneaking into a private house, climbing into the dumbwaiter, and pulling herself up to the second floor to spy through a crack in the dumbwaiter door. She has a spy route for the purpose of having subjects to describe and write about. These two women are power-houses and this book was an antidote to what was, when I read it, the predominant way of scripting girls in order to bury their strengths in their shadow. Welsch and her life-long nurse, Ole Golly. ![]() The heart of the book is the mentor-mentee relationship between the two main characters of the book, Harriet M. I’ve read it several times, I just read it again, and it’s still awesome. Harriet the Spy was one of the influential and beloved books of my middle-grade reading years. Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh, first published in paperback in 1964 by Dell Publishing Co., Inc. ![]()
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