Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary était une auteure américaine très respectée, principalement connue pour ses livres de fiction pour enfants et jeunes adultes. Elle est née Beverly Atlee Bunn à McMinnville, Oregon, le 12 avril 1916, avant de déménager à Portland, Oregon, où elle a passé la majeure partie de son enfance. Cleary a rencontré des difficultés à l'apprentissage de la lecture, ce qui fut une source de frustration pendant ses années d'école primaire. Cependant, ses compétences en lecture se sont améliorées de manière significative en troisième année, lorsqu'elle découvrit sa passion pour les livres grâce à The Dutch Twins de Lucy Fitch Perkins. Cette nouvelle passion pour la lecture l'a finalement amenée à devenir écrivain, lui permettant de créer le type de livres qu'elle aurait souhaité lire pendant son enfance.

Cleary a étudié à l'Université de Californie, Berkeley, où elle obtint son diplôme en anglais en 1938. Elle poursuivit par la suite des études en bibliothéconomie à l'Université de Washington à Seattle, qu'elle acheva en 1939. Son premier emploi fut comme bibliothécaire à Yakima, Washington, où elle réalisa le manque de livres pour enfants mettant en scène des personnages avec lesquels ses jeunes lecteurs pouvaient s'identifier. En 1950, elle publia son premier livre, Henry Huggins, qui marqua le début de sa fructueuse carrière d'écrivain. Parmi ses personnages les plus aimés figurent Ramona Quimby, Beatrice ("Beezus") Quimby, Henry Huggins et Ralph S. Mouse.

Au fil de sa carrière, Cleary a écrit plus de 30 livres et vendu environ 91 millions d'exemplaires imprimés dans le monde entier. Ses œuvres ont été traduites dans de nombreuses langues et elle a reçu des récompenses prestigieuses telles que la Médaille Newbery pour Dear Mr. Henshaw et les Honneurs Newbery pour Ramona Quimby, Age 8 et Ramona and Her Father. De plus, son anniversaire, le 12 avril, est célébré dans tout le pays comme la Journée D.E.A.R. (Drop Everything and Read). Beverly Cleary nous a quittés le 25 mars 2021, à l'âge de 104 ans, laissant derrière elle un riche héritage littéraire qui continue de ravir et d'inspirer les jeunes lecteurs.
Henry Huggins Books
# Titre Année
1 Henry Huggins 1950
2 Henry and Beezus 1952
3 Henry and Ribsy 1953
4 Henry and the Paper Route 1957
5 Henry and the Clubhouse 1962
6 Ribsy 1964
Ellen & Otis Books
# Titre Année
1 Ellen Tebbits 1951
2 Otis Spofford 1953
Ramona Quimby Books
# Titre Année
1 Beezus and Ramona 1955
2 Ramona the Pest 1968
3 Ramona the Brave 1975
4 Ramona and Her Father 1977
5 Ramona and Her Mother 1979
6 Ramona Quimby, Age 8 1981
7 Ramona Forever 1984
8 Ramona's World 1999
Ramona Quimby Non-Fiction
# Titre Année
1 The Beezus and Ramona Diary 1986
2 Just for Me 2013
First Love Books
# Titre Année
1 Fifteen 1956
2 The Luckiest Girl 1958
3 Jean and Johnny 1959
4 Sister of the Bride 1963
Ralph S. Mouse Books
# Titre Année
1 The Mouse and the Motorcycle 1965
2 Runaway Ralph 1970
3 Ralph S. Mouse 1982
Leigh Botts Books
# Titre Année
1 Dear Mr. Henshaw 1983
2 Strider 1991
Romans indépendants
# Titre Année
1 Beaver and Wally 1961
2 Emily's Runaway Imagination 1961
3 Here's Beaver! 1961
4 Ribsy and the P.T.A. 1963
5 Mitch and Amy 1967
6 Socks 1973
7 Leave It to Beaver 1978
8 Young Love 1982
9 Lucky Chuck 1984
10 Here Come The Twins 1989
11 The Twins Again 1989
12 Mouse House Trio 1989
13 Muggie Maggie 1990
Recueils de nouvelles
# Titre Année
1 Two Times the Fun 2005
Livres d'images
# Titre Année
1 The Hullabaloo ABC 1960
2 The Real Hole 1960
3 Two Dog Biscuits 1986
4 Janet's Thingamajigs 1987
5 The Growing-Up Feet 1987
6 Petey's Bedtime Story 1993
Livres de non-fiction
# Titre Année
1 A Girl from Yamhill 1988
2 My Own Two Feet 1995
Avon Camelot Books
# Titre Année
1 Lottie & Lisa 1952
2 Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner) 1952
3 Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie) 1980
4 Summerdog Comes Home 1980
5 A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler) 1981
6 Baseball Fever 1981
7 Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz, Johanna Hurwitz) 1981
8 A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher 1981
9 The Trouble with Tuck 1981
10 The Trouble with Tuck (By: Theodore Taylor) 1981
11 Irma and Jerry (By: George Selden) 1982
12 Irma and Jerry 1982
13 Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb, Margaret Ann Zusnich) 1982
14 Basic Fun 1982
15 Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard) 1983
16 Summerdog 1983
17 Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.) 1983
18 Esp McGee 1983
19 Tunnel to Yesterday 1983
20 Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb) 1983
21 Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) 1983
22 Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You 1983
23 Rich Mitch 1983
24 Summerdog (By: Thom Roberts) 1983
25 The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes 1983
26 Bet You Can't! (By: Kathy Darling, Vicki Cobb) 1983
27 The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes (By: Laurence Pringle) 1983
28 Behind the Attic Wall 1983
29 Behind the Attic Wall (By: Sylvia Cassedy) 1983
30 Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater 1984
31 Gremlins 1984
32 Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater (By: Bruce Curtis, Stephanie Young) 1984
33 Maura's Angel 1984
34 Gremlins (By: George Gipe) 1984
35 The Jellyfish Season 1985
36 Maura's Angel (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1984
37 The Jellyfish Season (By: Mary Downing Hahn) 1985
38 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 1985
39 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 (By: Andrew Glass, Catherine Edwards Sadler) 1985
40 Mystery of the Melted Diamonds 1986
41 Ukrainian Egg Mystery 1986
42 Get Rich Mitch! (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) 1985
43 Mystery of the Melted Diamonds (By: Carol Farley) 1986
44 Moroccan Mystery 1986
45 Ukrainian Egg Mystery (By: George E. Stanley) 1986
46 Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol 1986
47 Flash Fry, Private Eye 1986
48 Moroccan Mystery (By: Thomas McKean) 1986
49 Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (By: Steve Senn) 1986
50 The Anti-Peggy Plot 1986
51 Flash Fry, Private Eye (By: Tim Schoch) 1986
52 Best Joke Book for Kids 2 1987
53 The Codebreaker Kids 1987
54 The Anti-Peggy Plot (By: Thomas McKean) 1986
55 Best Joke Book for Kids 2 (By: Joan Eckstein) 1987
56 Summer Camp Creeps 1987
57 The Codebreaker Kids (By: George E. Stanley) 1987
58 The Case of the Lost Look-Alike 1988
59 Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch) 1987
60 Breezy 1988
61 Racing the Sun 1988
62 The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley) 1988
63 Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg) 1988
64 Anne Frank 1989
65 Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts) 1988
66 Ghost Brother 1990
67 The Case of the Vanishing Villain 1990
68 Anne Frank (By: Johanna Hurwitz) 1989
69 The Case of the Vanishing Villain (By: Carol Farley) 1990
70 Something Upstairs 1990
71 A Haunting in Williamsburg 1990
72 Something Upstairs (By: C.S. Adler) 1990
73 The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists 1991
74 Ghost Brother (By: C.S. Adler) 1990
75 A Haunting in Williamsburg (By: Lou Kassem) 1990
76 The Adventures of King Midas 1992
77 The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen) 1991
78 Ask Me Anything About the Presidents 1992
79 Tons of Trash 1992
80 Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (By: Louis Phillips) 1992
81 Maria, a Christmas Story 1992
82 The Adventures of King Midas (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1992
83 Tons of Trash (By: Joan Rattner Heilman) 1992
84 How to Travel Through Time 1993
85 Maria, a Christmas Story (By: Theodore Taylor) 1992
86 Lucie Babbidge's House 1993
87 Beardance 1993
88 How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem) 1993
89 Christmas Countdown 1993
90 Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy) 1993
91 Beardance (By: Will Hobbs) 1993
92 Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers 1994
93 The Mummy's Curse 1994
94 Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart) 1993
95 Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble 1994
96 Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler) 1994
97 The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen) 1994
98 Main Street 1994
99 Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux) 1994
100 Comet Luck 1994
101 Main Street (By: Susan Kirby) 1994
102 Kwanzaa 1995
103 Vampire Mom 1995
104 Comet Luck (By: Madge Harrah) 1994
105 Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (By: Johanna Hurwitz) 1995
106 Kwanzaa (By: Mildred Pitts Walter) 1995
107 Spookhouse 1995
108 Harry the Poisonous Centipede 1996
109 Vampire Mom (By: Don Whittington) 1995
110 Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller 1996
111 My Own Two Feet 1995
112 Four Perfect Pebbles 1996
113 Spookhouse (By: Don Whittington) 1995
114 Harry the Poisonous Centipede (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1996
115 Zombie Queen 1996
116 Freak Show 1996
117 Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller (By: Septima Green) 1996
118 Going to Net 1996
119 Four Perfect Pebbles (By: Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan) 1996
120 Lasting Echoes 1997
121 Zombie Queen (By: Don Whittington) 1996
122 Freak Show (By: Don Whittington) 1996
123 Tracks in the Snow 1997
124 Going to Net (By: Various Various) 1996
125 Painting the Black 1997
126 Tracks in the Snow (By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe) 1997
127 Danger Along the Ohio 1997
128 No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War 1998
129 Danger Along the Ohio (By: Patricia Willis) 1997
130 Night of the Chupacabras 1998
131 Lasting Echoes (By: Joseph Bruchac) 1997
132 Night of the Chupacabras (By: Marie G. Lee) 1998
133 As Ever, Gordy 1998
134 As Ever, Gordy (By: Mary Downing Hahn) 1998
135 Becoming Felix 1998
136 No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (By: Anita Lobel) 1998
137 Breakaway 1998
138 Becoming Felix (By: Nancy Hope Wilson) 1998
139 Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me 1998
140 It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz 1998
141 Breakaway (By: Kimberley Griffiths Little) 1998
142 Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (By: Dawn Knight) 1998
143 Leaving Summer 1998
144 It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz (By: Jacqueline Shannon) 1998
145 Flea Circus Summer 1998
146 Leaving Summer (By: Donal Harding) 1998
147 Calling Me Home 1998
148 The Pizza That Time Forgot 1999
149 Flea Circus Summer (By: Cheryl Ware) 1998
150 Love Me, Love My Broccoli 1999
151 Calling Me Home (By: Patricia Hermes) 1998
152 Get on the Net 1999
153 The Pizza That Time Forgot (By: William DeAndrea, Matthew Deandrea) 1999
154 Love Me, Love My Broccoli (By: Julie Anne Peters) 1999
155 Don't Try This at Home! 1999
156 Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters 1999
157 Get on the Net (By: Robert Pondiscio) 1999
158 Don't Try This at Home! (By: Vicki Cobb) 1999
159 A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights 1999
160 Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors 1999
161 Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (By: Bruce Coville) 1999
162 A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights (By: Kathleen Krull) 1999
163 Green Mango Magic 1999
164 All the Answers 2000
165 Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (By: Bruce Coville) 1999
166 Green Mango Magic (By: Sylvie Hossack) 1999
167 Can of Worms 2000
168 All the Answers (By: Anne C. Lemieux) 2000
169 Orphan Journey Home 2000
170 Can of Worms (By: Kathy MacKel) 2000
171 Bearstone 2000
172 Alice-by-Accident 2000
173 Orphan Journey Home (By: Liza Ketchum) 2000
174 Death at Devil's Bridge 2000
175 Bearstone (By: Will Hobbs) 2000
176 Heart of a Champion 2008
177 Alice-by-Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 2000
178 Death at Devil's Bridge (By: Cynthia C. DeFelice) 2000
179 Alice By Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 2003
Beverly Cleary Anthologies
# Titre Année
1 It's Fine to Be Nine 2000
2 It's Heaven to Be Seven 2000
3 It's Great to Be Eight 2000