"Ramona" author Beverly Cleary dead at 104

[RoryN]

Breaking

 

[Hypoxia]

Sorry, you got me there. Ms Cleary wrote the Ramona Quimby series, not Ramona, the southwestern classic by Helen Hunt Jackson. Do I show my age and upbringing?

 

[Wrong Element]

I'm going to have to do some serious updating to my perennial Dead Pool selections.

 

[pantalaimonlyra]

Huh, I would never have guessed she was still alive. Maybe I'll read The Mouse and the Motorcycle again for old times' sake.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Huh, I would never have guessed she was still alive. Maybe I'll read The Mouse and the Motorcycle again for old times' sake.

Same here. I loved reading Ramona The Brave as a kid. Scholastic was cleaning up in the classrooms with the book order sign-ups back in the day!

Again, being able to live a full, rich and long life just doing your craft and doing it well. That's all it's about.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Beverly_Cleary_ca._1955.jpg

https://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/sept08/images/cleary1.jpg

 

[rae121452]

who?

i'm still in love with 'the pokey little puppy'. "mike mulligan and his steam shovel'. smudge the rabbit, 'the boxcar children'...i mean, come on!