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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ramona enters third grade with trepidation: Her father has gone back to school, her mother is working full time and she must spend her afternoons at a neighbor’s house.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Statues of two beloved children's book characters have been vandalized in Portland's Grant Park. The statues are of Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins. Both are characters from books ...