SAGINAW, MI — Amy Spadafore is a Ramona. Spadafore, the managing director at Pit and Balcony Theatre in Saginaw, grew up loving the title character in Beverly Cleary’s beloved Ramona Quimby series. A ...

When I first met Ramona Quimby, she was only 4 years old and already showing signs of greatness. This was a kid who could secretly summon 15 friends to her house without her mother suspecting a thing ...

Beverly Cleary, the author of the beloved Ramona Quimby books, turned 102 on Thursday — and her stories are as popular as ever. “I’m just lucky,” she said about the success of her books during an ...

Ramona and Beezus, director Elizabeth Allen’s big-screen mashup of Beverly Cleary’s series of books about the most beguiling young pest in Portland, Ore., looks like a detergent commercial. It’s all ...

In 2003, then US President George W. Bush (C) stands with recipients of the National Medal of Arts in the Oval Office of the White House. (From left): Blues musician Buddy Guy; dancer and artistic ...

Beezus came first. When Beverly Cleary began dreaming up what would become her beloved children’s book series, she started the Quimby family with just one child. “Then one morning as I wrote,” Cleary ...

“Now, Ramona.” Mrs. Quimby’s voice was gentle. “You must try to grow up.” Ramona raised her voice. “What do you think I’m doing?” -Ramona the Brave “God DAMN it. Everybody dying.” With these words ...

Beverly Cleary knew exactly how to capture the spirt of childhood — and actress Sarah Polley says that in real life, playing Cleary's most indelible character was "like walking into the world of my ...

When Beverly Cleary's fictional Henry Huggins made his debut in 1950, he was a third grader whose "hair looked like a scrubbing brush and most of his grown-up front teeth were in." He was also bored.

SPRINGFIELD — I was in the third grade, sitting on the sofa, reading a book with my grandparents when my grandma glanced out the window and gasped. The horse in our pasture had given birth to a foal.

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Rattling through Beverly Cleary’s books in elementary school, I never connected with Beezus and Ramona Quimby, the sisters who became her most popular characters, but I felt an instant rapport with ...