HarperCollinsannounced her death Friday.
A movie adaptation ofBeezus and Ramona, starring Selena Gomez, was released in 2010.
She inhabited the minds of her young protagonists and refused to talk down to them.
Beverly Cleary.Alan McEwan
“I like children the way they are,” she toldPeoplein 2010.
“Where are the books,” a young boy asked her, “for kids like us?”
Cleary’s work became an answer to that need.
“And funny books about children like themselves.”
