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
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Henry Huggins
1950
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Henry and Beezus
1952
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Henry and Ribsy
1953
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Henry and the Paper Route
1957
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Henry and the Clubhouse
1962
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Ribsy
1964
Ellen & Otis Books
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Ellen Tebbits
1951
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Otis Spofford
1953
Ramona Quimby Books
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Beezus and Ramona
1955
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Ramona the Pest
1968
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Ramona the Brave
1975
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Ramona and Her Father
1977
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Ramona and Her Mother
1979
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Ramona Quimby, Age 8
1981
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Ramona Forever
1984
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Ramona's World
1999
Ramona Quimby Non-Fiction
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The Beezus and Ramona Diary
1986
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Just for Me
2013
First Love Books
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Fifteen
1956
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The Luckiest Girl
1958
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Jean and Johnny
1959
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Sister of the Bride
1963
Ralph S. Mouse Books
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle
1965
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Runaway Ralph
1970
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Ralph S. Mouse
1982
Leigh Botts Books
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Dear Mr. Henshaw
1983
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Strider
1991
Romans indépendants
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Beaver and Wally
1961
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Emily's Runaway Imagination
1961
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Here's Beaver!
1961
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Ribsy and the P.T.A.
1963
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Mitch and Amy
1967
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Socks
1973
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Leave It to Beaver
1978
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Young Love
1982
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Lucky Chuck
1984
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Here Come The Twins
1989
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The Twins Again
1989
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Mouse House Trio
1989
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Muggie Maggie
1990
Recueils de nouvelles
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Two Times the Fun
2005
Livres d'images
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The Hullabaloo ABC
1960
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The Real Hole
1960
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Two Dog Biscuits
1986
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Janet's Thingamajigs
1987
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The Growing-Up Feet
1987
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Petey's Bedtime Story
1993
Livres de non-fiction
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A Girl from Yamhill
1988
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My Own Two Feet
1995
Avon Camelot Books
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Lottie & Lisa
1952
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Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner)
1952
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Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie)
1980
4
Summerdog Comes Home
1980
5
A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler)
1981
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Baseball Fever
1981
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Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz, Johanna Hurwitz)
1981
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A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher
1981
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The Trouble with Tuck
1981
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The Trouble with Tuck (By: Theodore Taylor)
1981
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Irma and Jerry (By: George Selden)
1982
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Irma and Jerry
1982
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Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb, Margaret Ann Zusnich)
1982
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Basic Fun
1982
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Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard)
1983
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Summerdog
1983
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Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.)
1983
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Esp McGee
1983
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Tunnel to Yesterday
1983
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Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb)
1983
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Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
1983
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Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You
1983
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Rich Mitch
1983
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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
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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
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The Case of the Lost Look-Alike
1988
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Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch)
1987
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Breezy
1988
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Racing the Sun
1988
62
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley)
1988
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Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg)
1988
64
Anne Frank
1989
65
Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts)
1988
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Ghost Brother
1990
67
The Case of the Vanishing Villain
1990
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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
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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
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The Adventures of King Midas
1992
77
The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen)
1991
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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
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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
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Beardance
1993
88
How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem)
1993
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Christmas Countdown
1993
90
Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy)
1993
91
Beardance (By: Will Hobbs)
1993
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Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers
1994
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The Mummy's Curse
1994
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Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart)
1993
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Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble
1994
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Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler)
1994
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The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen)
1994
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Main Street
1994
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Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux)
1994
100
Comet Luck
1994
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Main Street (By: Susan Kirby)
1994
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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
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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)