5/24/2023 0 Comments Age for beverly cleary books![]() That led to “Henry Huggins,” her 1950 book about a boy growing up on Klickitat Street in Portland, Oregon, not far from the street where Cleary herself had lived. At a library in Yakima, Washington, a young boy provided the impetus for her writing career when he asked Cleary where he could find books about “kids like us.”Ĭleary decided she wanted to write about ordinary “grubby kids,” she told the Los Angeles Times, rather than the English schoolboys and girls who seemed to dominate the plots of children’s literature at the time. ![]() The author said she had aspirations of writing as a sixth grader, but first became a librarian. ![]() Courtesy HarperCollins Children's Books/Alan McEwanĬleary died on Thursday at her home in Carmel, California, where she had lived since the 1960s, a statement from HarperCollins said. Author Beverly Cleary in an undated photo. ![]()
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