When Miss Young began reading “Ramona the Pest” aloud, I was transported to a world that felt familiar and entirely new. Growing up below the poverty level in Utah, books were a rarity in our ...

People who called her a pest were always bigger ... Barbara Lalicki, who edited the 1999 Ramona book, Ramona's World, said Cleary steered the field of children's writing away from fantasy and ...

Beverly Cleary, the author of the beloved Ramona Quimby books, turned 102 on Thursday ... slowpoke grownup,” Cleary writes in Ramona the Pest. “She was a girl who could not wait.

“Everyone else is.” Happy 100th birthday, Beverly Cleary! Ralph S Mouse was my first favorite book, & Ramona the Pest had me snort-laughing in the family car. DiCamillo, a renowned children ...

While her older sister Beezus calls her a “pest,” Ramona’s imaginative ... Henry Huggins (1950). Cleary tossed Ramona into the book because she realized none of her characters had siblings.

The classic children’s books come to life as Ramona tries her best to keep the Quimby family afloat. Ramona Quimby, as she explains in the opening voiceover, is “not a pest. I just have an ove ...

were named Newbery Honor books, and the series was made into the 2010 movie “Ramona and Beezus.” The earlier novels “Beezus and Ramona” (1955) and “Ramona the Pest” (1968) were her “ ...

Book lovers are invited to a special birthday party tomorrow, along with Ralph S. Mouse, Beezus and Ramona The Pest. Author Beverly Cleary is turning 100. RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Back in 1950 ...

Beverly Cleary, who contemporized children’s literature with books like “Ramona the Pest” and “Henry and Beezus” and become one of the best-selling children’s authors of all time ...

More than 40 books followed, including "Beezus and Ramona" (1955), “Ramona the Pest" (1968) and “Ramona and Her Mother" (1979), which earned a National Book Award in 1981. A former children's ...

excitable and brimming with imagination in "Ramona the Pest," "Beezus and Ramona," "Ramona the Brave" and other books. Cleary's works did not offer heroic tales, lessons in life or grand adventures.