I have learned to say what I think on a piece of paper." Meanwhile Mr. until Leigh can write "I don't have to pretend to write to Mr.
Henshaw taper off, with "pretend," unmailed letters (the diary) taking over. Henshaw recommends keeping a diary (at least partly to get Leigh off his own back) and so the real letters to Mr. I guess I wouldn't seem so medium then." Soon Mr. Henshaw and readers learn that Leigh considers himself "the mediumest boy in school," that his parents have split up, and that he dreams of his truck-driver dad driving him to school "hauling a forty-foot reefer, which would make his outfit add up to eighteen wheels altogether. He threatens not to, but as "Mom keeps nagging me about your dumb old questions" he finally gets the job done-and through his answers Mr. Henshaw's answer comes late, and accompanied by a set of questions for Leigh to answer. Soon Leigh is in sixth grade and bombarding his still-favorite author with a list of questions to be answered and returned by "next Friday," the day his author report is due. Henshaw, whose fictitious book itself derives from the old take-off title Forty Ways W. Possibly inspired by the letters Cleary has received as a children's author, this begins with second-grader Leigh Botts' misspelled fan letter to Mr.
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