Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, United States on April 12th, 1916 and is the Children's Author. At the age of 107, Beverly Cleary biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
She worked as a children's librarian in Yakima, Washington, until 1940, and then as the post librarian at the US Army Hospital in Oakland, California, from 1942 to 1945. She worked at Sather Gate Book Shop in Berkeley before deciding to become a full-time writer for children.
Cleary, a children's librarian, empathized with her young patrons, who had a difficult time finding books with characters they could identify with, and she was unable to find enough books to warrant that they would love. Cleary, after a few years of making recommendations and doing live storytelling in her role as librarian, decided to start writing children's books about characters that young readers would relate to. "I believe in the'mission spirit' among children's librarians,'" Cleary said. Kids are entitled to books of literary value, and librarians are so vital in encouraging them to read and finding books that are appropriate."
Henry Huggins (1950), the first in a series of fictional chapter books about Henry, his dog Ribsy, his neighborhood friend Beezus, and her little sister Ramona. Cleary drew inspiration from the times she wrote stories for children during Saturday afternoon story hours in Yakima, Japan. Henry Huggins is a book about people living ordinary lives, based on Cleary's childhood experiences, the children in her neighborhood's growing up, as well as children she encountered while working as a librarian. Though Morrow, the first publisher she sent it to, had initially rejected it, and Cleary had included the characters of Beezus and Ramona when revising it.
Beezus and Ramona was the first book to center a story on the Quimby sisters, which was published in 1955. A kindergarten girl's grandmother was asked by a publisher to write a book about a kindergartener. Cleary refused because she hadn't attended kindergarten, but she later changed her mind after the birth of her twins.
Cleary wrote two memoirs, one about her childhood, entitled A Girl from Yamhill (1988), and one about her college experience and an adult novel entitled My Own Two Feet (1995). Cleary said, "I've had an amazing career" during an interview with the Los Angeles Times in 2011.