I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

In June 2008 the two-campus K–8 school of the same neighborhood Hollyrood-Fernwood was officially renamed Beverly Cleary School. See also. Educated at colleges in California and Washington Beverly Cleary worked as a librarian before writing children's books.

Some of her best-known characters are Henry Huggins Ribsy Beatrice ("Beezus") Quimby her sister Ramona and Ralph S. She has won many literary awards including the 1984 Newbery Medal for Dear Mr.