Harriet the Spy (TV Tie-In Edition)

By: Louise Fitzhugh

Narrated by: Anne Bobby

Features an exclusive bonus interview with the Apple TV+ animated series stars, Golden Globe nominee Beanie Feldstein (the voice of Harriet) and Emmy Award winner Jane Lynch (the voice of Ole Golly).

Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. In her notebook, she writes down everything she knows about everyone, even her classmates and her best friends. Then Harriet loses track of her notebook, and it ends up in the wrong hands. Before she can stop them, her friends have read the always truthful, sometimes awful things she’s written about each of them. Will Harriet find a way to put her life and her friendships back together?

"What the novel showed me as a child is that words have the power to hurt, but they can also heal, and that it’s much better in the long run to use this power for good than for evil." (New York Times best-selling author Meg Cabot)

©1992 Lois Anne Morhead; 1964 Louise Fitzhugh (P)2000 Listening Library, Inc.

Critic reviews

"A tour de force, Harriet the Spy bursts with life." (School Library Journal)

"A brilliantly written, unsparingly realistic story, a superb portrait of an extraordinary child." (Chicago Tribune)

"Finding Harriet as a young writer in the mid 1960s was inspiring. It meant I wasn’t the only one who wanted to tell stories about kids who were real." (Judy Blume)

“I don’t know of a better novel...that made more readers of my generation want to become fiction writers. I love the story of Harriet so much I feel as if I lived it.” (Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom and The Corrections)

Harriet the spy review

I really enjoyed this book. Every night I would plead for my mom to let me listen to one more chapter!

Classic story (review has spoilers)

On the surface, it’s very fascinating story due to deep and fun descriptions of every one and the colorful characters. But as a healthcare provider, it’s actually very deep story of a child (spoiler alert) case study of being ostracized, and being the butt end of bullying. Overall, it’s a very deep book and one that promotes of behavior health.

:)

I absolutely love this book
It mad me smile
and cry that one time
Anyway I hope the person who finds this review!
Loves this book.
Bye

Classic book but weird chapter breaks in the audiobook

This book is a classic, but the audiobook chapter breaks don’t line up with the chapters of the book which is really annoying.

I think

I think this book was not only creative but it is a original book. Way to go
Louise Fitzhugh!

Its... okay?

I lost where I was at and I’m very confused but it’s still pretty great!

I liked how Harriet used her notebook to identify

I love it. It's so beautiful.
That spy can climb on windows to see what's in.

Up and down

I carried the sky has parts that can be very boring and very intriguing and exciting. Some spots they want me to just put the book down and forget about it. But trust me you will not want to do. I wish it was exciting but as long as you don't put down you'll get through this.

I loved it!

I would give Harriet the spy five stars because it was really great at making you feel the feelings of the story and it was not scary, just bad and then really good at the end so you felt really happy! Harriet is some one I would want as a friend even though she writes mean things in a notebook. I don’t think she thought of them as mean, it just made her feel good to write. Some of the words she uses are not very kind, like stupid or dumb or talking about how people look. I think this because it wasn’t as mean to say that stuff when the book was written.

good narration, good story

the story is very good fit all ages, 10 and up I'd say. it's very relatable. the narrator is pretty good at bringing the story to life. definitely a must read... listen