SAGINAW, MI — Amy Spadafore is a Ramona. Spadafore, the managing director at Pit and Balcony Theatre in Saginaw, grew up loving the title character in Beverly Cleary’s beloved Ramona Quimby series. A ...

"I think children want to read about normal, everyday kids," Cleary told NPR in 1999. "... I think children like to find themselves in books." Children's Author Beverly Cleary, Creator Of Ramona ...

Beverly Cleary, the author of the beloved Ramona Quimby books, turned 102 on Thursday — and her stories are as popular as ever. “I’m just lucky,” she said about the success of her books during an ...

Beloved children's author Beverly Cleary is hitting a milestone on Friday. She's turning 103. As a young girl, Cleary lived on a farm in a town with no library, so her mom arranged for a small library ...

The Emotional Transformations of Beverly Cleary’s WorkReading her Ramona series aloud to my daughter, as my mother did before me, feels like accessing a form of double vision. Beloved Children’s ...

When Beverly Cleary's fictional Henry Huggins made his debut in 1950, he was a third grader whose "hair looked like a scrubbing brush and most of his grown-up front teeth were in." He was also bored.

Ramona and Beezus, director Elizabeth Allen’s big-screen mashup of Beverly Cleary’s series of books about the most beguiling young pest in Portland, Ore., looks like a detergent commercial. It’s all ...

Ramona has been making trouble ever since the 1950s, when she first appeared in print. Now she's the focus of a new movie, Ramona and Beezus. In a... Ramona Quimby: The Mischievous Girl Next Door Fans ...