There she specialized in library work with children. Cleary entered the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington, Seattle. The idea appealed to her, and she decided that someday she would write the books she longed to read but was unable to find on the library shelves, funny stories about her neighborhood and the sort of children she knew.Īfter graduation from junior college in Ontario, California, and the University of California at Berkeley, Mrs. Before long her school librarian was suggesting that she should write for boys and girls when she grew up. By the third grade she had conquered reading and spent much of her childhood either with books or on her way to and from the public library. Cleary attended grammar school and high school, she soon found herself in the low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy for the problems of struggling readers. When the family moved to Portland, where Mrs. Her mother arranged with the State Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library.
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