BookPage.com,http://www.bookpage.com/ (August, 1999), Miriam Drennan, "I Can See Cleary Now. Christian Science Monitor, September 6, 1951, Ethel C. Ince, review of Ellen Tebbits, p. 13. After taking a supporting role as an attention-demanding, exasperating 4-year-old in Beezus and Ramona (1955), she came into her full glory, at the ripe age of 5, in Ramona the Pest (1968) and went on to become Ms. Clearys most beloved creation. Later, she worked as a librarian in the U.S. Author Beverly Cleary was married to husband Clarence Cleary for more than 60 years before he passed away in 2004. However, Leigh decides to let his dad keep Bandit as company on his long trucking runs. Henry and the Paper Route, illustrated by Louis Darling, Morrow (New York, NY), 1957. Signal Review 1: A Selective Guide to Children's Literature, 1982, edited by Nancy Chambers, Thimble Press, 1983, p. 40. Ramona Quimby, Age Eight (also see below), illustrated by Alan Tiegreen, Morrow (New York, NY), 1981. Clarence Cleary died in 2004. At the bank, she deposited her check and the worn nickel, as she wrote, "for luck." Mitch and Amy, illustrated by George Porter, Morrow (New York, NY), 1967. "We at HarperCollins also feel extremely lucky to have worked with Beverly Cleary and to have enjoyed her sparkling wit. She went on to earn a degree in Library Science from the University of Washington before accepting a job as a librarian in Yakima, Washington. Marianne passed away after a lengthy illness, while in her 70th year. The Luckiest Girl, Morrow (New York, NY), 1958. Beverly Cleary lived in Carmel, California until her death in 2021 at the age of one-hundred and four . In her freshman English class at Chaffey, Cleary wrote an autobiography about the early years of her life in Yamhill; the teacher, who did not give out good grades easily, awarded her with what she called in her autobiography "an unadorned, unqualified A." Why didnt authors write books about everyday problems that children could solve by themselves? she wondered, as she recalled in her acceptance speech on receiving the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the American Library Association in 1975. The . Ribsy, illustrated by Louis Darling, Morrow (New York, NY), 1964. //