Mouse.” “Socks,” about a cat’s struggle for acceptance when his owners have a baby, is told from the point of view of the pet himself. People who called her a pest were always bigger, so they could be unfair.Ĭleary ventured into fantasy with “The Mouse and the Motorcycle,” and the sequels “Runaway Ralph” and “Ralph S. No matter what others said, she never thought she was a pest. "I'm not acting like a pest, I'm singing and skipping," said Ramona, who had only recently learned to skip with both feet. In the opening chapter of “Ramona the Pest,” Ramona responds to her big sister: Mischievous, spunky and a hater of spelling, Ramona would be the first to tell you she's not a pest - no matter what anyone (especially her older sister Beezus) says. Ramona Quimby, the most famous of all of Cleary's characters, was unforgettable. “Henry Huggins” was a hit upon first printing, but her readers wanted to hear more about the little girl who lived just up the street. There weren't any, so she sat down and wrote “Henry Huggins,” her first book about a regular little boy on Klickitat Street in Portland. By the 1940s she'd become a children's librarian in Portland, Ore., and she remembered boys in particular would ask her: "Where are the books about kids like us?" Cleary was still a young girl when she decided to become a children's book author.
Her writing style - clear, direct, uncomplicated - mirrored the author's own trajectory.
And I think children like to find themselves in books." And in my childhood, many years ago, children's books seemed to be about English children, or pioneer children. "I wanted to read about the sort of boys and girls that I knew in my neighborhood and in my school. That's what I wanted to read about when I was growing up," Cleary told NPR's Linda Wertheimer in 1999. "I think children want to read about normal, everyday kids. Cleary's simple idea - to write about the kids in her own neighborhood - ensured that her books have never gone out of print.
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