I enjoyed it.

I liked this book. I liked Henry's growth during the story. I admired how he learned to handle Ramona. I have one problem with this book. At the end Henry ends up in the paper for doing a good deed. His big focus after learning this is how his father will react to seeing him in the paper. He talks about how much he needs his father's approval and how happy he is when his father says he is proud of him. This is totally out of left field I feel. In none of the other books or at any point prior to this happening at the end of this book has Henry every mentioned or implied that there is tension/trouble between him and his father. At one point his father does explain to him how important his paper route is when he ends up distracted by something else and his mom ends up doing his paper route for him but nothing else indicates a problem between Henry and his father. I didn't like this tacked on bit to the story.

A cute beginning chapter books. Will keep fans of the picture books and the readers going with Fancy Nancy. It is both a good thing and a slight hindrance that there isn't a lot of background about Nancy in the book. For example she uses lots of "fancy" words which I think is good because you are introducing readers to a larger vocabulary but it can be kind of confusing because it is never explained that Nancy likes thing "fancy".

Henry Huggins' dog gets his own story here. Not really part of the Henry Huggins series in my opinion as Henry doesn't play much of a role in the story.

I didn't get it. I never found the hook. I'm still not 100% sure I understand what went on.