Henry Reed, Inc.

Henry Reed, Inc. is a kids book from 1958, written by Keith Robertson and illustrated by Robert McCloskey.

  

https://archive.org/details/henryreedinc00keit

The McCloskey drawings are what make the book for me.  Mentioned him previously:

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I am pretty sure I read Henry Reed, Inc. in the 6th grade.  But maybe it was a similar book - I remember it because we had to do drawings with our book reports and mine was of a runaway balloon that had to be shot down like the one in Henry Reed, Inc.:

It's a fun book - I noticed two items that would have passed me by in 1966-67, first sunspots:

Since the book was written near the greatest sunspot peak in the radio era but I was just into radio at that point and hadn't known that.  Anyway it must have been the thing to blame everything on sunspots in the late 1950s.

The second item was this:

I remember hearing Jean Shepherd voice the same opinion so I don't know if it was commonly held or ?  But I do know that puns have always amused me and I hold people who can come up with original ones in high regard (I can't).  I suppose that Henry Reed, his Mother and maybe even Jean Shepherd would all be considered to be "on the spectrum" today ?  Henry just doesn't get his business partner, Midge Glass, mainly due to her sense of humor.

I'll have to see if Archive has the other books in the series.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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