That was the way I had wanted to be treated as a child.” “Miss Remsberg also said that she did not understand why the children had liked me so much I treated them the same way I treated adults, of course. ![]() Upon becoming a librarian after school, she recalls another librarian wondering about how she could get to be so good at her job: That Cleary eventually ended up writing children’s books feels the way the paths of a great many talented people feel: both inevitable and magical, the result of a lot of hard work mixed with a certain amount of luck. On the occasion of beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary’s 100th birthday last year, Jezebel’s Kate Dries penned a lovely profile of the woman who brought us Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins, and gave generations of children a gentle nudge into a lifetime of loving books.
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