![]() ![]() ![]() So when I sat down to write, I found myself writing about the sort of children I had grown up with,” Cleary said in a 1993 Associated Press interview.ĭear Mr. Well, there weren’t any books about kids like them. “As a librarian, children were always asking for books about 'kids like us'. When I started writing I found that I was thinking more about my typing than what I was going to say, so I wrote it long hand,” she said in March 2016.Īlthough she put away her pen, Cleary re-released three of her most cherished books with three famous fans writing forewords for the new editions.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. In 1981, Ramona and Her Mother won the National Book Award.Ĭleary wasn’t writing recently because she said she felt "it’s important for writers to know when to quit." Others included Ramona the Pest and Ramona and Her Father. ![]() ![]() In all, there were eight books on Ramona between Beezus and Ramona in 1955 and Ramona’s World in 1999. We played hopscotch and jump rope and I loved them and always had scraped knees.” “At the age of Ramona, in those days, children played outside. “I was a well-behaved little girl, not that I wanted to be,” she said. Cleary herself was an only child and said the character wasn’t a mirror. ![]()
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