Great story. I loved Harriet as a kid and this book brought all of it back for me. I listened to the audio version narrated Anne Bobby.

In this cute sequel, Harriet tries to figure out what has got Ole Golly so down and how to fix it for her.

A sweet story of childhood blunderings through the obvious and a love that cannot be ignored, I liked this novel way more than the original!

Still a good book, but I didn't like the style of this new author as much as the original author.

I have loved Harriet The Spy since I was young, and have only now discovered that there were sequels. I've been having difficulty getting Sport for a reasonable price, but I've managed to purchase The Long Secret and the two reboots/reimaginings by Helen Ericson and Maya Gold.

The book is only 230 pages long, with a preview of the original Harriet The Spy tacked on at the end. I think for this one, Helen Ericson has now a really good job of sticking closely to the original Louise Fitzhugh work, while bringing in new characters, and bringing back old characters. Sadly, the line drawings I loved so much from my copy are sadly missing, as I think these were potentially drawn by Louise Fitzhugh herself. The cover art has been slightly modernised, while still inkeeping with "my" version of Harriet.

There's not as much note taking in this one, which was the thing I suppose I really loved about the original book. Instead, Helen has moved slightly away from the infamous notebooks, to Harriet making a "timeline" of her life, from birth to her current age at the end of the book of 12. This includes all sorts of "headlines" throughout the ever increasing sheets of paper.

Harriet also makes a new friend in this, who we'll find out more about in Double Agent. Sport still appears, although his father is now married (quite suddenly, even though the book seems to follow on shortly from the original work), however Janie does not appear and is only given the briefest of mentions. From what I've seen, The Long Secret appears to focus less on Harriet and more on Beth Ellen, so I'm not sure how that will be just yet, or how these reimaginings fit into the timeline.

Ole Golly also comes back and Cook is cantankerous as always (I still think she has a secret soft spot for Harriet). Harriet's parents disappear for the majority of the book, thankfully, to warrant bringing back Ole Golly.

There's nothing in this that a child would not/could not understand, and there's only the briefest mention of puberty, in the form of Harriet spotting hair on Sport's top lip. So this will be fine to read for a child, there's no adult overtures.

While I don't think it has the same magic as the original, the author has still done a good job capturing the tone and clearly knew the characters quite well. It's still worth picking up, to read as a follow on.

For a spin off on one of my all time favorite childhood books it was pretty good.

I adore the original! This was a fun book with some great little quirks and twists.

I read Harriet the Spy when I was young, and so enjoyed it that I've read it again and again through the years. I guess Harriet kinds of reminds me of the kind of little girl I would like to have been...totally independent and brassy! She is such a fun little tomboy to follow in her exploits with her friends and as she "spies" on neighbors nearby as she documents in great detail in her "notebooks" her perspective of each of their lives.
This new book, "Harriet Spies Again" takes me back to that first book, and how much I loved it. I am just starting to read it, but already, Harriet's favorite person in the entire world, Ole Golly, is coming back to keep an eye on her while her parents are in Europe.
I can only imagine what is yet to come...it's a fun and quick read on a rainy day or when you're stuck at home and you just feel like something easy to read and enjoy.

One of my students said I reminded her of Harriet the Spy, so I thought, ah what the heck. Cute story-- it's a 4th grade reading level but with REALLY impressive vocabulary. If I were still teaching elementary school, I would include this in my curriculum!

❤️❤️❤️ Harriet the Spy. Will definitely be reading more of these babies. ..... so FUN!!

I enjoyed this continuation of "Harriet the Spy" with the familiar characters from that book and other books by Louise Fitzhugh (this new book is by Helen Erickson). A new character, "Annie" (she uses different aliases), is introduced and presumably further developed in a subsequent book. The character of Harriet is the same, but the book feels different, maybe because it's written by another author (or maybe because I am an adult now, not a child).

Helen Ericson did a pretty impressive imitation of Louise Fitzhugh's writing style, but couldn't fully capture the magic of the real thing. And I have a few issues with the plot itself. For one thing, time felt a bit weirdly compressed between the original books and this one. Harriet Spies Again is explicitly set after the events of Sport but mostly still in Harriet's 11th year. So thinking back to all the other books, there is a heck of a lot going on in maybe just over a year of Harriet's life. Why not give some breathing room in the timeline and have this book start out after Harriet has turned twelve?

And while I didn't mind the idea of Ole Golly coming back for a time, her turning out to be pregnant felt really weird. In Fitzhugh's only illustration of her from the first book, Golly looks like she's pushing sixty. Maybe I missed some context clue that sets her age as younger, but 43 years old doesn't match my mental image of her at all. And I refuse to believe she would give her kid a silly rhyming name like Polly Golly.

For what basically amounts to fanfiction, Harriet Spies Again is decent. Unfortunately, not quite good enough for any of its events to make it into my headcanon.

This one is even better than Harriet the Spy, because Harriet actually solves a mystery. Sad that Louise Fitzhugh doesn't write it, though. :(