Women history  

                                                       Beverly Atlee Cleary     

• Beverly Cleary was born on April 12, 1916 and died on March 25 , 2021

• Beverly Cleary had a career as a librarian, childrens writer, and a novelist

                                Childhood

Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon and lived on a farm in Yamhill, it was a town that was so small there was no library so her mom had to call the state library to send her books. After that Beverly Cleary was interested in books. She wanted to be a librarian so she acted like one in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. She loved it that one day she became a librarian.

                                       Education

Beverly Cleary went to: Information school, Grant high school, University of California, Berkeley,University of Washington and Chaffey College. Beverly Cleary got a second degree in University of Washington in library science

                                   Accomplishments

Beverly Cleary had a lot of accomplishments in her life. She won more than 35 awards. She won the 2003 National Medal of Art from the National Endowment of the Arts and the 1984 John Newbery Medal for “Dear Mr. Henshaw.”  That was her main award.

                                Later years

Beverly Cleary impact the world by creating many books the kids loved. The kids loved the books that they loved reading that's how she became an impact to the world. She was a librarian and an author. In her later years  she married Clarence Cleary. Clarence Cleary died in 2004 and then Beverly Cleary died on March 25, 2021 at the age of 104.

                                            Bio-Poem

Beverly   

Creative, passionate,inspiring

Daughter of Mable Atlee Bunn, wife of Clarence Cleary, and mother of twins

Who loved books,children, loved educating children about books

Who hated watching children struggle to read, loved spending time in the library, loved telling stories for kids

Who feared that children would struggle to read, authors would make books boring, books will never be interesting to kids

Who made some of the most famous children books 

Who wanted the children to not struggle to read and to children have fun reading 

Born in McMinnville, Oregon and lived in California

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