Beverly has won numerous book awards and honours in her career, including the National Book Award, the Newbery Medal and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award. She began writing books for children in order to give young readers something to relate to.īeverly Cleary’s first book was Henry Huggins, published in 1950. Beverly’s first full-time job was as a librarian in Yakima, Washington where she observed children looking for the same kind of books she had looked for herself at their age – books about children themselves. Her first librarian job was in Yakima, Washington. Soon, her family would move to Portland, where she went to school. Cleary earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Berkeley in 1938 and then attended University of Washington’s librarianship program. Despite this, Beverly loved to read, and her mother had the Oregon State Library send books to Yamhill. Cleary lived on a farm in Yamhill, Oregon a town that didn’t even have a library. Beverly Cleary 8.99 9. She wrote the Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby series.
Born in April 12th, 1916 she sadly passed on the 25th of March, 2021.
Beverly Cleary was an American author of children’s books.
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