Beverly cleary author death be not proud
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How Beverly Cleary Changed Children’s Literature
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I spent the weekend after Beverly Cleary’s death scrolling through social media, reading the numerous testimonials to her from celebrated writers for children.
It’s been a week now since she died, just about three weeks shy of
To a person, each author felt she had forged a path for them that made it possible to write about the contemporary world, with all its warts, minutia and dysfunction.
Beverly cleary author death be not proud
(Myself included.) Lynda Mullaly Hunt, author of such books as “One for the Murphys” and “Fish In A Tree,” described Cleary’s influence in a heartfelt online tribute by saying: “I was one of the reluctant readers that she hooked with her rich, true-to-life characters.
Her stories were among the first that created mind movies that I now use to create my own novels.”
She advanced storytelling for children, too. For so long the parent characters in middle grade books for children or those for young adults were depicted as either abse