![]() Starting school will help, she is sure, but she soon discovers that being in kindergarten does nothing to reduce the gap between the two of them. She is driven by an ambition to grow up quickly so as to catch up with Beezus. From the first Ramona is both spirited and reflective. ![]() ![]() Ramona the Pest (1968), the first solo story about her, followed some time later. When readers sent letters curious to know more about the other characters in the stories, Cleary, encouraged by an editor who wanted stories about a child in kindergarten, wrote Beezus and Ramona (1955), in which she established the Quimby family. ![]() Photograph: Alamyĭrawing on her experience as a children’s librarian, Cleary had the gift of appealing directly to young readers beginning to choose books for themselves. Beverly Cleary in the mid-1950s, around the time she established the Quimby family as the centre of her books. ![]()
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