![]() ![]() She suits up in a spy uniform of jeans and a sweatshirt, a tool belt with a leather pouch for her notebook and black glasses without lenses, and peers into the windows of her neighbors on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Harriet spies, not to solve mysteries, but for the sheer delinquent joy of it. I WILL BE THE BEST SPY THERE EVER WAS AND I WILL KNOW EVERYTHING. Harriet, meanwhile, is brash and disheveled - without even a hairband to keep her floppy bangs in place. Nancy is polite, poised as a ballerina and ever eager to please. The gulf between Harriet and Nancy shows us how children's books - and children - were changing in the 1960s. DOES HIS MOTHER HATE HIM? IF I HAD HIM I'D HATE HIM." "MY MOTHER IS ALWAYS SAYING PINKY WHITEHEAD'S WHOLE PROBLEM IS HIS MOTHER. Welsch, who wrote things like this in her precious spy notebook: Nancy Drew, with her sweater sets and best chums, and Harriet M. In 1964, there were two girl sleuths on American bookshelves. The movie version of Harriet the Spy featured Michelle Trachtenberg as Harriet and Rosie O'Donnell as Ole Golly. ![]()
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