Beloved children's author Beverly Cleary is hitting a milestone on Friday. She's turning 103. As a young girl, Cleary lived on a farm in a town with no library, so her mom arranged for a small library ...
CARMEL VALLEY, Calif. - Ramona Quimby is everywhere. She's outside the front door of Beverly Cleary's retirement community apartment, on a poster that proclaims: "Libraries are forever!" She's on a ...
She was just a little girl, barely old enough to go to school, when she left town. Yet author Beverly Cleary spent most of the next 100 years proving that children — especially little girls — can make ...