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Post by librarylady on Apr 13, 2018 0:29:54 GMT
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janeliz
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Post by janeliz on Apr 13, 2018 0:37:01 GMT
Aw, Happy Birthday to Ms. Cleary. I devoured everything she wrote when I was a child.
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Post by tommygirl on Apr 13, 2018 0:42:35 GMT
That's so awesome! I loved her books! She has brought happiness to so many.
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Post by marimoose on Apr 13, 2018 1:13:53 GMT
Thta's amazing. I also loved her books.
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Post by amom23 on Apr 13, 2018 1:15:57 GMT
I loved her books!
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Post by garagesaler on Apr 13, 2018 1:34:58 GMT
That is amazing! I loved her books growing up. Then, my DD and I got to enjoy them together when she was younger too.
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Post by Zee on Apr 13, 2018 1:36:11 GMT
Oh wow, I had no idea she was still alive!  |
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Post by Really Red on Apr 13, 2018 2:00:11 GMT
I just answered a trivia question about her and I had no idea she was still alive. I loved loved loved the Ramona books when I was little. TFS!
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Post by alexa11 on Apr 13, 2018 2:05:18 GMT
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scrappyesq
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Post by scrappyesq on Apr 13, 2018 2:09:25 GMT
Oh wow, I had no idea she was still alive! Not only that I can't believe that her books were written so long ago and they are still so loved. I read them during the 80's and when I have kids they're going to be required reading. |
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Post by mom on Apr 13, 2018 2:10:45 GMT
Loved her books!
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Post by wholarmor on Apr 13, 2018 2:35:54 GMT
This popped up in my FB memories from two years ago when she celebrated her 100th birthday. Jayden happened to be reading this book at that time.  |
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Post by andreasmom on Apr 13, 2018 3:41:47 GMT
Loved all her books.
Beverly Cleary and Judy Bloom were my childhood favorites. I read them all many, many times.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 13, 2018 3:44:34 GMT
The Mouse and the Motorcycle is one of my very favorite childhood books!!!  (I could just picture that little mouse in his little helmet; made from a ping pong ball... if I recall correctly, that is.) |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 13, 2018 3:47:34 GMT
My DD and I just read all of the Ralph the Mouse books a few months ago and it was so fun reading them again with her. She loved them just as much as I did when I was her age!
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Post by scrapmaven on Apr 13, 2018 3:54:19 GMT
I met her at an author illustrator festival when I was a little girl. It was one of the highlights of my childhood.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 3:58:40 GMT
So wonderful! So much for the bs saying that "only the good die young". She's very good and still with us!
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Post by ntsf on Apr 13, 2018 4:01:27 GMT
my mother in law grew up just north of portland about 10 yrs later than her. she really enjoyed her autobiographies, as so much was the same as her experiences. we all grew up reading her books..
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Post by lucyg on Apr 13, 2018 4:47:52 GMT
I too had no idea she was still alive. How wonderful. I loved her books when I was a kid, but I don't think my kids read them. hmmm, maybe some Ramona.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 7:59:14 GMT
Matthew adores reading. The only time there's not a book in his hand is when he's in the shower. He devours books. So it broke my heart wide open when he read several of her books from different series and said he didn't care for any of them. She was one of my favorite authors when I was a child.
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Post by tuesdaysgone on Apr 13, 2018 9:10:31 GMT
Ramona is still one of the all time great characters from children's lit. Kids at my school still read Cleary books.
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Post by dawnnikol on Apr 13, 2018 11:15:11 GMT
This is awesome. I love Ramona!
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Post by deshacrafts on Apr 13, 2018 11:47:42 GMT
Happy Birthday Beverly!!
I loved all her books. I read all of the ones my library had at the time. Very fond memories.
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Post by schizo319 on Apr 13, 2018 11:52:21 GMT
I credit her with my love of reading, her books are some of the very first I ever read. I had no idea she was still alive - how awesome is that!
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Post by pierogi on Apr 13, 2018 13:53:17 GMT
Love her. She gave us Henry Huggins, Ribsy, Beezus and Ramona, Otis Spoffard, Ellen Tebbits, and the whole gang. To this day, I’ll think about something Ramona did and laugh. She never talked down to kids, and never made her characters annoyingly perfect like some books did. They all had their vulnerabilities and foibles, and as a child, I related to that.
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Post by snugglebutter on Apr 13, 2018 16:20:08 GMT
Her books were such a huge part of my childhood. I wrote her for a class assignment in 3rd grade and she sent back a lovely note. Sadly, I did not save it!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 16:27:12 GMT
I grew up with Ramona and Beezus... Happy Birthday to BC... |
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Post by casii on Apr 13, 2018 16:37:09 GMT
I still have some of the kids old books stashed away for the distant future if we ever have grandkids. Classic characters!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2018 21:57:51 GMT
loved those books! I read them to my kids and grandkids!
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Post by birukitty on Apr 13, 2018 22:36:32 GMT
I'm happy to hear that she's still alive and celebrating her 102nd birthday-way to go Beverly Cleary!
I adored her books when I was a child. Beezus and her little sister Ramona rang so true for me because I was the oldest of four and had two younger sisters, and a brother. I saw myself as Beezus and my sister(s) as Ramona. I also loved Henry Huggins and all of her other books. I knew when I saw her name on a book as the author that it was going to be a great book.
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