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If I do, I will want to talk about all the people who did not live on Klickitat Street. There were, in spades—not to mention handwritten notes, a growing pile of books, and a slow drip of TV cameras. I hope I get to read them to my granddaughters, one day. “She just touched upon so many things that were so real-life in families, and having the fact that she’s from Portland, and that she talks about Portland—Klickitat Street and other things in Northeast Portland—really made it personal to us that lived here,” Gage says.
My newest novel will include characters you would not have found in small town New Hampshire, in 1970, but we have a long way to go before there anything close to real diversity exists in places like the one I come from. The final book, Ramona’s World, was published in 1999. And, just like Ramona, it was raw."
"I saw myself in her characters.
“We used to bike along the Klickitat mall. "I'm sorry, I didn't expect this," she says. As she begins learning how to read in first grade, Ramona shows her bravery by sticking up to playground bullies. The family set a small tea light by Ramona's feet, lit it, and then strapped into their cargo bike and headed home.
Several visitors showed up on behalf of family members who loved Cleary.
Aunt Bea and Howie’s uncle, Mr. Hobart, decide to get married. “I’m just so sad. Two entries in the series were named as Newbery Honor Books, Ramona and Her Fatherand Ramona Quimby: Age 8. In the end, the sheep win the audience over, and the Quimby family enjoys a pleasant night together.
In Ramona and her Mother(1979), Ramona, still in the second grade, grows jealous of her mother’s relationship with Beezus when they bond over cooking and sewing, etc.
They were flawed, but I still wanted to be like them, and I think that's something that's really stuck with me and helped define my literary taste probably somehow," Adelson says.
Gretchen, who requested Portland Monthly not share her last name, showed up after receiving emails from her mother and sister on the East Coast about Cleary's passing.
In the end, Ramona is kissed by her mother and told, “ten is the best age of growing up.”
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Ramona demonstrates that she can handle these tasks by herself, showing that she is beginning to mature.In Ramona Forever(1984), Ramona learns that change is unavoidable, but vows to always be herself.
Ramona scrawls across a library book, locks their dog, Ribsy, in the bathroom, and interferes with Beezus’s art class. “Even 60 years after [Cleary] wrote many of these books, they’re really incomparable in terms of just expressing the realities of the lives of children,” says Brooks, who’s been reading Cleary’s books with Junie over the last year.
“[She] sparked a love of reading for generations of children.” “Her books gave me permission to write about Portland, to name the streets, the stores, the parks & libraries that raised me, to tell stories about joyful, thoughtful, rambunctious girls,” wrote YA author Renée Watson, a Portland native. I’m gonna come by tomorrow and Sunday to see if maybe more people are placing flowers.”
Listen: In this episode of Footnotes, Portland Monthly news editor Julia Silverman talks with author Lydia Kiesling about how Beverly Cleary wrote about motherhood, parenting, and Portland.
Ramona tries to set a good example for Roberta. Meanwhile, Beezus is now in high school, making new friends and becoming interested in boys. Ramona also attempts to help her father quit smoking.