I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

Erin Davis/Axios Visuals Ramona, Estrella and Westley were all at least four times more likely to be chosen as baby names in Oregon than the U.S. at large, per data from the Social Security ...

The Toniebox is more of a cube and nearly twice the size of the Yoto Mini. It’s a little under five inches tall and weighs just over two pounds. It is still easy enough for children, even very young ...

She was just a little girl, barely old enough to go to school, when she left town. Yet author Beverly Cleary spent most of the next 100 years proving that children — especially little girls ...

This is Beverly Cleary’s Grant Park, the real-life northeast Portland neighborhood where the beloved author grew up and which was used as the setting for her classic children’s books.

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 ...

The beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary, when describing the protagonist in her “Ramona” series, once called her imaginative, curious and funny. “All things I think are great for ...

I spent the weekend after Beverly Cleary’s death scrolling through social media, reading the numerous testimonials to her from celebrated writers for children. It’s been a week now since she ...

Beverly Cleary's readers sometimes wrote to tell her they liked her books because "they don't have any description." While Cleary is inextricably linked with Portland—her most famous books are ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children's author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with millions through the likes of Ramona and Beezus Quimby and Henry Huggins ...

Judy Blume opened up about one of her regrets in life: never meeting beloved author Beverly Cleary, who died last week at age 104. Blume, 83, took to Twitter Saturday to pay homage to the late ...