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	Kidsreads.com - Beverly Cleary
		Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library.
		Cleary attended grammar school and high school, she soon found herself in the low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy for the problems of struggling readers.
		Cleary's other awards are the American Library Association's 1975 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the Catholic Library Association's 1980 Regina Medal, and the University of Southern Mississippi's 1982 Silver Medallion, all presented in recognition of her lasting contribution to children's literature.
	www.kidsreads.com /authors/au-cleary-beverly.asp (506 words)

	Beverly Cleary - MSN Encarta
		Beverly Cleary, born in 1916, American author, known for writing humorous realistic fiction for children and young adults.
		Beverly Atlee Bunn was born in McMinnville, Oregon.
		Cleary's books are loved by children and recognized by critics for their insight into childhood.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579520/Cleary_Beverly.html (338 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Beverly Cleary
		Beverly Bunn was born in McMinnville, Oregon on April 12, 1916.
		Beverly's love for books began when her mother made an agreement with the State Library to have books sent to their town and to act as the local librarian.
		Cleary was encouraged to write one book in particular in response to her own son's lack of interest in reading.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Cleary,Beverly.html (690 words)

	Beverly Cleary Biography and Summary
		Born Beverly Bunn on April 12, 1916 in McMinnville, Oregon, Cleary was the...
		Beverly Cleary's overwhelming popularity as a writer for children is attested by the number of state and regional awards voted her by her readers.
		Beverly Cleary (born April 12, 1916) is the author of over 30 books for young adults and children.
	www.bookrags.com /Beverly_Cleary (210 words)

	About Beverly Cleary
		She was born Beverly Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library.
		In 1934, Beverly Bunn left home to attend college in California, which she imagined as the land of orange groves and movie stars, far removed from the hardships of the Depression.
		Cleary's books appear in over twenty countries in fourteen languages and her characters, including Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Beezus and Ramona Quimby, as well as Ribsy, Socks, and Ralph S. Mouse, have delighted children for generations.
	www.beverlycleary.com /beverlycleary (883 words)

	Beverly Cleary Background
		Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library.
		When children ask Beverly where she finds her ideas, she replies, "From my own experience and from the world around me." Henry Huggins, written when she was in her early thirties, was her first attempt at writing.
		Cleary's books have received more than thirty-five statewide awards based on the direct votes of her young readers.
	www.bravemonster.com /authors/beverlycleary.htm (421 words)

	Beverly Cleary, age 90 - The Boston Globe
		Beverly Cleary, the author who gave the spunky, irrepressible Ramona Quimby to generations of children, turns 90 today.
		Though Cleary sounded her age when she recently told an interviewer that she'd enjoy dinner with any of the characters she created ''if they chewed with their mouths shut and sat up straight and minded their manners," the secret to her books is that she never left her own childhood far behind.
		First grade, Cleary recalls, was ''absolutely the worst year of my whole life." Not only did she contract chicken pox, smallpox, and tonsillitis, but ''school in those days was grim." The Portland of her childhood offered no kindergarten, and classes had 40 students.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/04/12/beverly_cleary_age_90 (618 words)

	Beverly Cleary at AllExperts
		Beverly Cleary (born April 12, 1916) is the author of over 30 books for young adults and children.
		Beverly Cleary was born Beverly Atlee Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon.
		Cleary received the Library of Congress Living Legends award in the "Writers and Artists" category in April 2000 for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/be/beverly_cleary.htm (517 words)

	Beverly Cleary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Beverly Cleary was born on April 12, 1916 in McMinnville, Oregon.
		Beverly saw that the books being published for kids weren't that good and thought she could do better.
		I think Beverly Cleary is an important woman in history because she wrote many books that kids liked to read.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/cleary.html (185 words)

	NEA News Room: 2003 Medal of Arts Recipients - Beverly Cleary
		Children's author Beverly Cleary and her beloved characters, including Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy, have been enchanting children for more than 50 years.
		Cleary's other honors is the American Library Association's 1975 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her lasting contribution to literature for children.
		Equally important to Cleary are the more than 35 statewide awards her books have received based on the direct votes of her young readers.
	www.arts.gov /news/news03/medals03/Medals2003_Cleary.html (164 words)

	How Beverly Cleary Became a Reader and a Writer * - Children's Books
		Beverly´s mother was embarrassed and she made Beverly promise not to tell anyone that she might have to go back to first grade.
		Beverly kept working away at her reading, trying to make sense of all those letters, and trying to figure out what was so great about reading anyway.
		Beverly Bunn got married and became Beverly Cleary, but she never forgot how she became a reader.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art2358.asp (1021 words)

	Beverly Cleary
		Beverly’s teacher was pleased with the story that the teacher encouraged Beverly to write children’s books.
		Beverly graduated from the University of California at Berkley and she also graduated from the School of Librarianship in Washington.
		Beverly Cleary is still living a happy life with her only son and husband.
	jbm.smyrna.k12.de.us /Users/berisman/katieb.htm (549 words)

	Amazon.fr : Ramona's World: Livres en anglais: Beverly Cleary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Beverly Cleary's best-loved and most exuberant character has been winning friends since the 1950s when she made her first appearance as Beezus's pesky little sister.
		Cleary picks up on all the details of fourth grade, from comparing hand calluses to the distribution of little plastic combs by the school photographer.
		This year Ramona is trying to improve her spelling, and Cleary is especially deft at limning the emotional nuances as Ramona fails and succeeds, goes from sad to happy, and from hurt to proud.
	www.amazon.fr /Ramonas-World-Beverly-Cleary/dp/product-description/0192750860 (1844 words)

	Drop Everything And Read
		Cleary where she finds her ideas, she replies, “From my own experience and from the world around me.” She included a passage about the DEAR program in Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (pages 40-41) after she received numerous letters from readers who mentioned the great reading program they were doing in class.
		In 2000, to honor her invaluable contributions to children’s literature, Beverly Cleary was named a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress.
		Cleary's books appear in over twenty countries in fourteen languages and her characters, including Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Beezus and Ramona Quimby, as well as Ribsy, Socks, and Ralph S. Mouse, have delighted children for generations.
	www.dropeverythingandread.com /beverlycleary.html (561 words)

	Beverly Cleary
		The author of children's picture books as well as juvenile fiction and young adult novels, Beverly Cleary is best known for her stories about little Ramona Quimby, her big sister Beezus, and their neighborhood pal Henry Huggins.
		Soon after, in 1940, Beverly eloped with Clarence Cleary, a young man of Roman Catholic upbringing whom she had met while attending the University of California, Berkeley.
		Cleary's critical acclaim includes (in addition to her two Newbery Honor books and the 1984 John Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children): the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (1975), the Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal (1980), and the Silver Medallion from the University of Southern Mississippi (1982).
	www.nndb.com /people/422/000032326 (625 words)

	Beverly Cleary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Beverly Cleary is the only child in her family.
		The awards Beverly Cleary has won are the Newberry Medal in 1984, a Newberry Honor Book Award in 1978, a Newberry Honor Book Award in 1982, and a Wilder Award in 19765.
		Beverly Cleary was a good student in school but she couldn't read until later.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/darnestownes/bioweb/beverlycleary.htm (279 words)

	Beverly Cleary - Books
		As a young woman who 11 was sure where she wanted to go but did not know if she could find the money to get there," she juggled studies of Chaucer and French grammar with the many chores that came with life in a student cooperative house.
		Work as a librarian brought her into contact with all sorts of youngsters, from the children of the unemployed to the offspring of doctors and lawyers.
		Told with the deep understanding of human nature that has made her books beloved by three generations of readers, My Own Two Feet is a lively, unforgettable look at the early years of a woman whose books speak directly to the hearts and imaginations of children everywhere.
	www.harperchildrens.com /catalog/cleary_books_description.asp?isbn=0688142672 (222 words)

	Amazon.fr : A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir: Livres en anglais: Beverly Cleary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Then, there are always those special few readers who dream of becoming writers themselves, and Cleary has some information on how this was for her and more about the hunger for reading that often starts writers on their way.
		It ends with Cleary off to college in California without anything but determination and the ability to work hard and find her own way.
		For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, and all of the other poignant and colorful images of childhood brought to life in Beverly Cleary books, here is the fascinating true story of the remarkable woman who created them.
	www.amazon.fr /Girl-Yamhill-Memoir-Beverly-Cleary/dp/product-description/0440401852 (948 words)

	Beverly Cleary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library.
		Her advice to the many children who write asking for "tips" on writing is for them to read widely while growing up, and when the time comes for them to write, they will find their own way of writing and will not need tips to guide them.
		Cleary's books have received more than thirty-five statewide awards based on the direct votes of her young readers.
	www.comsewogue.k12.ny.us /~khickson/class05/beverly_cleary.htm (373 words)

	Barbara & Douglas Smith: Third Floor Publishing - Literature Study - Beverly Cleary's Childhood Memories Make Great ...
		Beverly wanted only to read the silent movie marquees, and resisted her mother's attempts to teach her to read; she wanted to be taught in a proper classroom.
		Her groom was Clarence Cleary, a young man she met in college at "Cal." Her description of the courtship and her family’s reaction, gives a glimpse into her religious experience that she does not discuss explicitly in her memoirs.
		Beverly Cleary is a master for young readers, so use her stories to teach writing.
	www.chfweb.com /smith/bcleary.html (1648 words)

	Beverly Cleary - Life
		Beverly Bunn was born on an Oregon farm in 1916, but the family subsequently moved to Portland, where she grew up, experiencing the Depression during her teenage years.
		While working as a librarian and earlier in her life, Cleary had wondered at why so many children’s books presented a child’s life differently from the way she experienced it.
		One critic (Pat Pflieger) has written of Cleary’s work that she “emphasizes the humor of exaggerated situations arising naturally from daily life” (58).
	www.northern.edu /hastingw/cleary.html (704 words)

	Beverly Cleary - HarperAcademic
		Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no...">
		However, when the family moved to Portland, Beverly soon found herself in the grammar school’s low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy for the problems of struggling readers.
		Cleary where she finds her ideas, she replies, "From my own experience and from the world around me." She included a passage about the D.E.A.R. program in Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (second chapter) because she was inspired by letters she received from children who participated in "Drop Everything and Read" activities.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/author_xml.asp?authorID=15297 (563 words)

	Amazon.com: A Girl from Yamhill: Books: Beverly Cleary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cleary explains her early writing experiences explaining that she wanted to read books as a child that were realistic.
		Beverly Cleary takes us back to her childhood and shares with us her memories of growing up in Oregon and what her family life was like.
		The rest of Beverly's life in Portland was marked by arguments with her strict and difficult mother, the poverty of the depression, and her father's sadness at being away from the farm he loved.
	www.amazon.com /Girl-Yamhill-Beverly-Cleary/dp/0380727404 (1804 words)

	Amazon.de: A Girl from Yamhill: English Books: Beverly Cleary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Then, there are always those special few readers who dream of becoming writers themselves, and Cleary has some information on how this was for her and more about the hunger for reading that often starts writers on their way.
		Cleary's books provided me endless hours of enjoyment, and I still remember laughing out loud at the adventures and misadventures of her characters.
		Painfully honest and funny, Beverly Cleary's memoirs are a complement to her stories of children such as Ramona and Henry Huggins.
	www.amazon.de /Girl-Yamhill-Beverly-Cleary/dp/0688078001 (1219 words)

	Houghton Mifflin Reading: Meet Beverly Cleary
		Although her books have been enjoyed by generations of kids, Beverly Cleary herself didn't enjoy reading as a child — at least not at first.
		When Cleary became a librarian, she met children who were bored with traditional children's books, just as she had been.
		Beverly Cleary encourages young people who would like to be writers, but she also offers very practical advice: "If you're serious about becoming a professional writer, prepare to have some other way of earning a living.
	www.eduplace.com /kids/hmr/mtai/cleary.html (322 words)

	Educational Paperback Association
		Cleary also focuses several of her works on the experiences and emotions of the only child and the children of divorced or single-parent families, and is often acknowledged as one of the first American authors to profile the latter group.
		Cleary has been criticized occasionally for stereotyping and for choosing not to use a multicultural approach in her works; in addition, she has been accused of some pedestrian writing and for creating some slight plots.
		In 1916 Cleary was born in the nearest hospital, in McMinnville.
	www.edupaperback.org /showauth.cfm?authid=21 (6779 words)

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