Quote by: Beverly Cleary

In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!


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Author Bio


  • NameBeverly Cleary
  • DescriptionAmerican writer of children's books
  • BornApril 12, 1916
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Children's Writer; Autobiographer
  • WorksRamona; The Mouse And The Motorcycle; Dear Mr. Henshaw
  • AwardsNational Medal Of Arts; Newbery Medal