![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For many, the Ramona series was their first introduction to brand awareness and author loyalty. Ramona may have entered the literary conversation in the 50s, but the series hit its zenith in the late 1970s and early 1980s with a new generation of young readers, library cards in hand. Two of her books, Ramona and Her Father (1977) and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) were both winners of the prestigious Newbery Medal. While Cleary first put Ramona on the literary map in the 1950s, she continued to create new stories for the character until 1999, when she published Ramona’s World, the last in the series. Quimby would go on to be Cleary’s best-known character and, for many a square-peg-in-a-round-hole girl, a personal touchstone. Even though she lived to the advanced age of 104, it feels too soon to let Beverly Cleary go.īut let go we must - and with grace and gratitude for the journey she took us on since she introduced audiences to the precociously independent Ramona Quimby in the 1950 classic Henry Huggins. How Beverly Cleary Encouraged a Generation of Unapologetic WomenĪs it happens when we lose any larger-than-life cultural figure, we knew this day would come, but it still hurts. ![]()
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