What Beverly Cleary’s Legacy Means for Children Today
3 min readMar 27, 2021
All children need to see themselves in the books they read. Beverly Cleary understood this at a time when many others didn’t.
“I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written and go on to be readers all of their lives.” ~ Beverly Cleary
I don’t know many people my age (52 next week) who didn’t grow up loving Beverly Cleary’s imaginative…