LOST at shopping center: mongrel dog, black,white, brown. Answers to Ribsy. Shakes hands with left paw. No collar. AT 7-4139. Reward.
That's the advertisement Henry Huggins has been running in the newspaper for three weeks. But so far it hasn't brought Henry's dog, Ribsy, back home. And despite his father's kind offer, Henry doesn't want to get another dog. He wants only Ribsy--the friendliest and most companionable dog in the whole world.
Ribsy wants to come home, too. People have been nice to him, and he's having lots of adventures--from a violet-scented bubble bath to being mascot of a second-grade class. But poor Ribsy is tired of being lost. Won't one of his escapades lead him back to the family he misses so much?
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