Horning also said that Cleary’s books came at a time when a lot of children’s books didn’t feature some of the battles and conflict that everyday children deal with. "What I think she was doing was writing about real kids - kids who fought with their siblings who didn’t always behave in a perfect manner," said Horning. Instead, she wrote about the bothersome kid on the playground or down the street. According to Kathleen Horning, the director of the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the School of Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison, what made Cleary different is that she avoided tales of perfectly mannered children and idyllic childhoods. The mastermind behind Ramona, Beezus, Ralph the mouse, and Henry Huggins turned 100 this week.īeverly Cleary has created children's book characters that have not only stood the test of time, but have also driven a paradigm shift in children’s fiction.
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