Children's Books: What's Hot Now: Author Beverly Cleary

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Author Beverly Cleary Nov 4th 2011, 10:09 Introduction Children's books by Beverly Cleary have delighted children, particularly 8-12 year olds, for sixty years. Her humorous, yet realistic, children's books about the ordinary lives of children, along with such appealing characters as Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins, have captured the interest of children around the world. Beverly Cleary has written 30-plus books. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. In addition, Ramona and Beezus, a movie based on Cleary's Ramona Quimby and her older sister, Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby, will be released on July 23, 2010. Beverly Cleary and Her Award-Winning Children's Books Beverly Bunn was born in 1916 in McMinnville, Oregon and spent her early years in Yamhill where her mother started a small library. Thus began the author's lifelong love of books. Her family moved to Portland when Beverly was six years old; she was delighted to find a large public library. Beverly went on to study library science at the University of Washington in Seattle and became a children's librarian. In 1940, she married Clarence Cleary. Beverly Cleary's first book, Henry Huggins was published in 1950 and remains popular today. Her most recent book, Ramona's World, was published in 1999 and features one of her most beloved characters, Ramona Quimby. The first movie based on Cleary's Ramona Quimby, Ramona and Beezus, centers on grade schooler Ramona's relationship with her older sister, Beatrice. This relationship is a part of all of the Ramona books, but most particularly in the book Beezus and Ramona. Beverly Cleary has won numerous awards, including the Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw (compare prices). Two of her books about Ramona Quimby, Ramona and Her Father (compare prices) and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (compare prices) were designated Newbery Honor Books. Cleary also received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in honor of her contributions to children's literature. If that's not enough, her books have also won about three dozen statewide children's choice awards. The Klickitat Street Books of Beverly Cleary When she was a child, Cleary noticed that there didn't seem to be any books about children like the ones who lived in her neighborhood. When Beverly Cleary began writing children's books, she created her own version of Klickitat Street, a real street near her childhood neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The children who live on Klickitat Street are based on the children she grew up with. Fourteen of Cleary's books are set on Klickitat Street, beginning with her first book, Henry Huggins (compare prices). While Henry was the focus of the first books, a number of Beverly Cleary's books also highlighted Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby and Beezus' little sister, Ramona. In fact, Ramona has been the title character in the last seven of the Klickitat Street books. The most recent Ramona book, Ramona's World (compare prices), came out in 1999. HarperCollins published a paperback version in 2001. With a fifteen-year break between Ramona's World and the last previous Ramona book, I was a little apprehensive about a lack of continuity. I needn't have worried. In Ramona's World, as in her other books featuring Ramona Quimby, Cleary is right on target as she addresses, in typical humorous fashion, the vicissitudes in the life of Ramona Quimby, now a fourth grader. Beverly Cleary's books have remained popular because of characters like Ramona. If your children haven't read any of her books, now's the time to introduce them to Cleary's books.

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