![]() Instead, Cleary wrote about the familiar, everyday drama of parents arguing about the best way to cook pancakes and little girls resisting the wiles of toothpaste tubes that just REALLY wanted to be squeezed. Not cheaply, in a tawdry fashion, like the authors who followed Cleary in the 1960s and 1970s did, writing about periods and parental abandonment and anorexia and gang violence. While it wasn’t unexpected, since Cleary was, after all, 104 years old, still it felt to me like the end of an era, the passing of the old guard who believed that children deserved and desired a child’s level of realism in their stories, and gave it to them. Photo by Orange Suade Sofa Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0Īs most are probably aware by now, beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary passed away recently. ![]() Ramona Quimby statue in Grant Park, Portland, OR. ![]()
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