Posted on 04/12/2016 7:43:52 AM PDT by Borges
Beverly Cleary, the children’s author whose books about Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins and others captured the spark and struggles of “kids like us,” doesn’t mind if you celebrate her birthday.
After all, she turns 100 on Tuesday.
Now living in a retirement community in Carmel, California, Cleary plans to celebrate with a slice of carrot cake. But it’s fine if others celebrate, including the “Drop Everything and Read” effort sponsored by her publisher.
“Go ahead and fuss,” she told the Washington Post of her centennial birthday. “Everyone else is.”
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Wow! I had no idea she was still alive.
I’m glad someone other than me remembered!
We were assigned to read her stuff in grade school, and that was a LOOOOOOONG time ago!
Her books give a nice flavor of what Oregon must have been like before it filled-up with whacko left-wing nutjobs.
I loved reading the Henry Huggins story in Grade school, That and Desmond the Dog Detective.
[ Wow! I had no idea she was still alive. ]
I keep confusing her with Judy Bloom....
No, Judy Bloom is like her evil sister. She’s the one writing about teens masterbating and crap.
Blume seems to have been writing for a more mature teen audience than Cleary, but some of her books (e.g. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing) are clearly in the same general genre as Cleary's Henry Huggins and Ramona books, though a generation later.
My daughter works in the children’s section of a barnes and noble. She’s setting up a birthday table with books and balloons today.
Very cool!!
I’m 45 and a few years ago I re-bought all six Henry Huggins books for myself. Loved them as a child.
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