Mouse.” “Socks,” about a cat’s struggle for acceptance when his owners have a baby, is told from the point of view of the pet himself. “Ramona and Her Father” in 1978 and “Ramona Quimby, Age 8” in 1982 were named Newbery Honor Books.Ĭleary ventured into fantasy with “The Mouse and the Motorcycle,” and the sequels “Runaway Ralph” and “Ralph S. It “came about because two different boys from different parts of the country asked me to write a book about a boy whose parents were divorced,” she told National Public Radio as she neared her 90th birthday. Henshaw,” the touching story of a lonely boy who corresponds with a children’s book author, won the 1984 John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. So when I sat down to write, I found myself writing about the sort of children I had grown up with,” Cleary said in a 1993 Associated Press interview.
“As a librarian, children were always asking for books about `kids like us.′ Well, there weren’t any books about kids like them. She kept appearing in every book,” she said in a March 2016 telephone interview from her California home. “All the children appeared to be only children so I tossed in a little sister and she didn’t go away. Ramona, perhaps her best-known character, made her debut in “Henry Huggins” with only a brief mention. They inhabit a down-home, wholesome setting on Klickitat Street - a real street in Portland, Oregon, the city where Cleary spent much of her youth.Īmong the “Henry” titles were “Henry and Ribsy,” “Henry and the Paper Route” and “Henry and Beezus.” Children worldwide came to love the adventures of Huggins and neighbors Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, Beatrice “Beezus” Quimby and her younger sister, Ramona.
Trained as a librarian, Cleary didn’t start writing books until her early 30s when she wrote “Henry Huggins,” published in 1950. She was 104.Ĭleary’s publisher HarperCollins announced Friday that the author died Thursday in Carmel Valley, California, where she had lived since the 1960s. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.īeverly Cleary, the celebrated children’s author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins, has died.
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