Summary
Beverly Cleary por fin le ha dado su propio libro a Ramona Quimby. Ya no es la desventura de Henry Huggins ni la irritante responsabilidad de Beezus. AquI tiene ya cinco a'os y mucho temple, asI como la singular oportunidad de explicar las cosas desde su punto de vista. El libro trata de la entrada de Ramona al kindergarten, un hecho trascendental para todos los interesados. Ramona hace sentir su presencia, ya sea con un ronquido delicado cuando quiere demostrar que descansa muy bien, o al tirar de los tentadores rizos de Susan. Por lo general, Ramona adora con toda el alma a su maestra, la Srta. Binney. Los sentimientos de la Srta. Binney son desconocidos. La Sra. Quimby le dice a su hija: "Ella jamAs en su vida se olvidarA de ti". Nada les parece tan divertido a los ni'os como los cuentos de lo que hicieron cuando peque'itos. En este relato tenemos, pues, una descripeiOn de los dIas del kindergarten para lectores que ya han pasado esa etapa dificil. A muchos les parecerAn comiquIsimas las aventuras de Ramona; otros se conmoverAn con su lucha constante para hacerse un lugar en un mundo lleno de incomprensiOn.
Beverly Cleary was born on April 12, 1916. Her family lived on a small farm in McMinnville, Oregon, before moving to Portland. Ironically, this internationally known author of children's books struggled to learn how to read when she entered school. Before long however Cleary had learned to love books, and as a child she spent a good deal of her time in the public library.
Cleary attended Chaffey Junior College in Ontario, Ca. and went on to earned her first B.A. in 1938 from the University of California at Berkeley. Her second degree, a B.A. in library science, was bestowed by the University of Washington in Seattle in 1939. She worked for a short time as Children's Librarian in Yakima, Washington, before moving to California.
Cleary began her writing career in her early thirties. Her first book, Henry Huggins, was published in 1950. Her stories and especially her characters, Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby, have proven popular with young readers. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and are available in over twenty countries. Some of her best-known titles are Ellen Tebbits (1951), Henry and the Paper Route (1957), Runaway Ralph (1970), and Dear Mr. Henshaw (1983). Several television programs have been produced from the Henry Huggins and Ramona stories. She also wrote two memoirs, A Girl from Yamhill (1988) and My Own Two Feet (1995).
Cleary has won many awards for her contributions to children's literature, including the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1975, the Catholic Library Association's Regina Medal in 1980, the John Newbery Medal in 1984 and the National Medal of Arts in 2003.
Beverly Cleary died on March 25, 2021 in Carmel, California. She was 104 year old.
(Bowker Author Biography)
