She is lauded in literary circles far and wide. She produced two volumes of autobiography for young readers, "A Girl from Yamhill," on her childhood, and "My Own Two Feet," which tells the story of her college and young adult years up to the time of her first book.
People are astonished at the things I remember. I think it comes from living in isolation on a farm the first six years of my life where my main activity was observing," Cleary said. Cleary was born Beverly Bunn on April 12, , in McMinnville, Oregon, and lived on a farm in Yamhill until her family moved to Portland when she was school-age. She was a slow reader, which she blamed on illness and a mean-spirited first-grade teacher who disciplined her by snapping a steel-tipped pointer across the back of her hands.
By sixth or seventh grade, "I decided that I was going to write children's stories," she said. Cleary graduated from junior college in Ontario, California, and the University of California at Berkeley, where she met her husband, Clarence. They married in ; Clarence Cleary died in They were the parents of twins, a boy and a girl born in who inspired her book "Mitch and Amy.
Cleary studied library science at the University of Washington and worked as the children's librarian at Yakima, Wash. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and inspired Japanese, Danish and Swedish television programs based on the Henry Huggins series.
From that moment on, as I read through the shelves of the library, I searched for, but was unable to find, the books I wanted to read most of all: books about the sort of children who lived in my neighbourhood, books that would make me laugh.
However, she also wrote for other ages and genres, including four picture books featuring twins including The Real Hole , which drew on her own experiences of her twin children, three fantasy books in which Ralph S Mouse interacts with humans, including The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Runaway Mouse , and a handful of novels for teenagers. However, they have lasted less well, since stories of early romance from the s and teenage introspection from the s respectively have dated too much over the years.
Graduating from Grant high school in , Cleary took a degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley before going on to fulfil her ambition to be a librarian by getting a BA in librarianship from the University of Washington, Seattle In she married Clarence Cleary, the couple eloping as her parents disapproved of the relationship because he was a Roman Catholic. Her twins, a boy and a girl, were born in Statues of her characters can be found in a garden for children in Grant Park, Oregon, and her old school is now Beverly Cleary school.
Clarence died in Not only did she encourage her to read but to write as well. It was she who gave her the hope that one day she could write for children. At the age of 18, she moved to California. She then joined the University of Washington and earned a degree in library science.
The latter one gave her an opportunity to work with children and developing close relationships with them. Just like her librarian, she also provided children with books on subjects that they could relate to. In , she published her first book, Henry Huggins. The book revolved around a boy, dog and his friends. Beverly said that the book was a reminiscent of the children whom she grew up with and also those who used to listen to her stories during the library hours.
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