Beverly Cleary

Do you know a woman named Beverly Cleary? On April 12, 1916 a woman named Beverly Cleary was born. In a town named Yamhill she lived on a farm until she was old enough to attend school. Her town was so small that it had no library. Her mom went to the library so Yamhill could have books. She liked to act like a librarian so she did in a lodge room over a bank upstairs.

When she moved to Portland she was put into a low reading group because she was struggling. In third grade she spent much of her time reading books from the public library. Her librarian said that she should write for kids when she got older. She liked that idea so she decided that she would. She also decided that the books she longed to read she would write them but she could not find them.

Beverly Bunn left in 1934 so she could go to college in California and she imagined it as movie stars and orange groves removed far from hardships. She was a young woman and she knew where she wanted to go but she did not know if she had the money so she could get there. "She was juggling studies of French grammar and Chaucer with chores that came with a student cooperative house and life." She found time to sit with a man named Clarence Cleary and have a sandwich.

After junior college graduation in Ontario, California, Beverly Bunn went to school so she could be librarian in Washington, Seattle. She practiced library stuff with children.

Beverly Cleary was in Yakima, Washington because she was a children's librarian and then she married Clarence Cleary and then she moved to California. Beverly Cleary and Clarence Cleary became the parents of two baby twins.

Now you know why Beverly Cleary is liked so much. She has the experience of writing children's books and printing them. I have read a lot of books that Beverly Cleary has written. Now you know why I think Beverly Cleary is a hero.