bcla
On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
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Wow - 104 years old. I read many of her books when I was young including Henry Huggins, Ribsy, and several in the Ramona series. Also Runaway Ralph about a mouse that can ride a toy motorcycle.
Beloved author and Oregon native Beverly Cleary has died. She was 104.
Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ralph the Mouse are among some of her best-known characters. More than half a century after her first book was published, sales are still strong, with more than 91 million books sold and counting.
Born Beverly Atlee Bunn, the iconic writer of children’s and young-adult novels spent most of her own childhood in Northeast Portland’s Hollywood neighborhood. She would go on to make Klickitat and Tillamook streets famous in her books.
But she didn’t actually start writing until much later in life. She’d gone to the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Washington, and worked as a librarian in Yakima, Washington. Then, after settling down with her husband, Clarence Cleary, in Berkeley, California, she pulled up a typewriter to try her first book.
My favourite childhood author. Definitely instilled my love of reading. My favourite was Mouse and the Motorcycle. I bought my girls some of her books as well.
