![]() ![]() Mouse,” just to name a few - are now in the hands of a third generation of readers. To borrow a response from Cleary’s most famous character, Ramona Quimby: “Guts! Guts! Guts!” What else is there to say?Ĭleary’s novels - “ The Mouse and the Motorcycle,” “ Henry and Ribsy” and “Ralph S. ![]() The much-adored author of 42 books for children, who was declared a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress in 2000, died on Thursday at the age of 104. ![]() Then I caught on that the answer was the expectation of a reply or what children refer to as ‘free stuff.’” “Today the letters that fill an author’s mailbox often begin, ‘Our class is studying live authors,’” wrote Beverly Cleary in “ Why Are Children Writing to Me Instead of Reading?,” an essay published in The New York Times Book Review in 1985. ![]()
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