![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “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.Īctress Amy Poehler penned the front section of “Ramona Quimby, Age 8 ” author Kate DiCamillo wrote the opening for “The Mouse and the Motorcycle ” and author Judy Blume wrote the foreword for “Henry Huggins.”Ĭleary, a self-described “fuddy-duddy,” said there was a simple reason she began writing children’s books. “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. Cleary’s publisher HarperCollins announced Friday that the author died Thursday in Carmel Valley, California, where she had lived since the 1960s. ![]()
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