5/30/2023 0 Comments Ribsy lib e beverly cleary![]() At a library in Yakima, Washington, a young boy provided the impetus for her writing career when he asked Cleary where he could find books about "kids like us."Ĭleary decided she wanted to write about ordinary "grubby kids," she told the Los Angeles Times, rather than the English schoolboys and girls who seemed to dominate the plots of children's literature at the time. The author said she had aspirations of writing as a sixth grader, but first became a librarian. ![]() American children's book author Beverly Cleary, who responded to a young reader's plea for realistic characters by bringing rare insight and humour to the lives of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins and the other children who populated her more than 40 books, has died at age 104, publisher HarperCollins said.Ĭleary died on Thursday at her home in Carmel, California, where she had lived since the 1960s, a statement from HarperCollins said. ![]()
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