BEVERLEY CLEARY BOOK COLLECTION

If your kid can’t keep his/her nose out of a book, this is the item you NEED to buy! It’s called “The World of Beverly Cleary Collection” and it contains 15 of Cleary’s most famous stories. Don’t know who Beverly Cleary is? First of all, she’s 100. Yup, 100 years old. (She must have done something right!) Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library. Her mother arranged with the State Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. There young Beverly learned to love books. However, when the family moved to Portland, Beverly soon found herself in the grammar school's low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy for the problems of struggling readers. By the third grade she had conquered reading and spent much of her childhood either with books or on her way to and from the public library. Before long her school librarian was suggesting that she should write for boys and girls when she grew up. The idea appealed to her, and she decided that someday she would write the books she longed to read but was unable to find on the library shelves, funny stories about her neighborhood and the sort of children she knew. And so Ribsy, Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, and her other beloved characters were born. Mrs. Cleary's books have earned her many prestigious awards. In 2000, to honor her invaluable contributions to children's literature, Beverly Cleary was named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress. This witty and warm author is truly an international favorite. Mrs. Cleary's books appear in over twenty countries in fourteen languages and her characters, including Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, Otis Spofford, and Beezus and Ramona Quimby, as well as Ribsy, Socks, and Ralph S. Mouse, have delighted children for generations. And her popularity has not diminished. This is a masterful collection from one of the great masters of children’s literature.