![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents have worked hard to build a new addition onto the side of the house so that Ramona can have her own bedroom, but she’s terrified to sleep alone in it and she can’t tell anyone. ![]() Her first-grade teacher doesn’t understand her. She wanted to do something terrible that would shock her whole family, something that would make them sit up and take notice.” It is a culmination of months of resentment and feeling misunderstood for Ramona, an accumulation of slights big and small that have finally come to a head. “She had been miserable the whole first grade, and she no longer cared what happened. “Ramona had had enough,” Cleary wrote in Ramona the Brave. Her best-known, most beloved creation is Ramona Quimby, the protagonist of seven of Cleary’s many books for young readers, and while Ramona is a naturally curious, cheerful kid, sometimes things do not go her way. The author, who died on March 25, three weeks short of her 105th birthday, was a giant of American literature, a singular talent whose work reshaped the history of children’s literature, and an unmatched prose writer of incredible deftness and skill. No one could write a foul mood like Beverly Cleary. Photo: Christina Koci Hernandez/San Francisco Chronicle by Getty Images ![]()
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