"I think children want to read about normal, everyday kids," Cleary told NPR in 1999. "... I think children like to find themselves in books." Children's Author Beverly Cleary, Creator Of Ramona ...

When Beverly Cleary's fictional Henry Huggins made his debut in 1950, he was a third grader whose "hair looked like a scrubbing brush and most of his grown-up front teeth were in." He was also bored.

NEW YORK - Beverly Cleary, a beloved children’s book author who brought characters like Henry Huggins, Ramona and Beezus Quimby to life, has died. She was 104. HarperCollins Children’s Books confirmed ...

Ramona and Beezus, director Elizabeth Allen’s big-screen mashup of Beverly Cleary’s series of books about the most beguiling young pest in Portland, Ore., looks like a detergent commercial. It’s all ...

Every little sister who's ever tormented her big sister by, say ... baking a rubber doll into her birthday cake (or relished reading about Ramona Quimby doing it), rejoice -- your favorite ...

Part of Cleary’s popular Ramona Quimby series, this Newbery Honor Book depicts 7-year-old Ramona dealing with her father’s job loss and its effects on the Quimby family.

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HERE ARE TWO engaging stories from two successful authors whose rooting sections in elementary and intermediate grades should receive these books with ready pleasure. The Cybil War spins along with ...

Ramona enters third grade with trepidation: Her father has gone back to school, her mother is working full time and she must spend her afternoons at a neighbor’s house.