[HN Gopher] Beverly Cleary has died
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Beverly Cleary has died
Author : coloneltcb
Score : 43 points
Date : 2021-03-26 21:40 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| mimixco wrote:
| Oh say can you see, by the Dawnzer Lee light!
|
| Lots of good childhood memories. RIP, Bev.
| gumby wrote:
| This was quite confusing to me as an immigrant kid who did not
| know the reference. These books were great!
| irrational wrote:
| 104 years old and a beloved author? Now that's the way to go.
| jimbob45 wrote:
| I hated those books. They read as if written like what an adult
| thinks kids are like instead of being what kids think kids are
| like.
|
| Every kid-character was a thoughtless menace to everyone else
| around them without a shred of empathy. That's great if you're an
| adult who hates kids but as a kid, I didn't want to identify with
| the characters at all.
|
| I know Nancy Drew/the Hardy Boys were perhaps unrealistically
| intelligent for their age but I read them because I wanted to be
| like them. Why would I read about people who personify all the
| things I hate about myself?
| nevster wrote:
| https://archive.is/vE6GL
| linguae wrote:
| Reading her books was one of the best parts about my childhood. I
| read my first Ramona book when I was in third grade (though I
| forgot the specific book). I feel in love with characters like
| Ramona, Beezus, and Henry, and I ended up reading every book in
| the Henry/Beezus/Ramona series that was published at the time
| (which ended at Ramona Forever, though there's another book,
| Ramona's World, that was published after I outgrew the series).
| Though I haven't touched a Ramona book in about 22 years, I still
| vividly remember the characters and the Alan Tiegreen
| illustrations. Beverly Cleary also wrote another series of books
| that I love featuring a hotel-dwelling mouse named Ralph that was
| given a toy motorcycle. I still have my copies of "Ramona Quimby,
| Age 8" and "Ralph S. Mouse" somewhere.
| jayski wrote:
| my favorite character is still Nosmo King
| ping_pong wrote:
| I really enjoyed her books when I was a kid. I'm male but I
| really loved the Ramona and Beezus books. The male version (Henry
| Huggins?) was no where near as fun as Ramona and Beezus books.
| Those books, Judy Blume books, Roald Dahl books (Danny, Champion
| of the World) and C.S. Lewis books formed the basis of most of my
| reading for a few good years.
| tfandango wrote:
| The first chapter-book I remember reading was one of the Ralph
| S. Mouse books, Motorcycle Mouse. I have fond memories of those
| times and I have since read them to my kids.
| 1123581321 wrote:
| Did you ever read _Otis Spofford_? Quite a different character
| than Henry, closer to Ramona in being misunderstood, picked on
| and lashing out in turn. Pairs well with _Ellen Tebbits_ ,
| similar to Beezus' perspective in that Otis annoys her but she
| has her own problems with friendships.
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| In general I think it's a misunderstanding to see her boy
| characters as only intended to he understood and appreciated by
| boys; same for the girls.
| mikepurvis wrote:
| Suggestion for a popup/paywall-free alternative link:
| https://www.npr.org/2021/03/26/311881785/beverly-cleary-crea...
|
| (Currently the story points to the Washington Post.)
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