She was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984.
Tributes galore, today!
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=beverly+cleary&oq=beverly+cleary&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j0l3j43i53.3308.8025.0.8652.14.8.0.6.6.0.198.1016.3j5.8.0...0.0...1ac.1.x35C1HLGU30
(includes tributes from the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and NPR)
From Jezebel (fascinating):
"Most People Love Ramona Quimby, But I Remember Beverly Cleary"
http://pictorial.jezebel.com/most-people-love-ramona-quimby-but-i-remember-beverly-1770292539
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=beverly+cleary&oq=beverly+cleary&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j0l3j43i53.3308.8025.0.8652.14.8.0.6.6.0.198.1016.3j5.8.0...0.0...1ac.1.x35C1HLGU30#hl=en&gl=us&authuser=0&q=beverly+cleary+100th
(more tributes - top one is from CNN)
Here's one at School Library Journal, with quite a few videos:
http://www.slj.com/2016/04/industry-news/beverly-cleary-turned-100-today/
By Rocco Staino.
First paragraph:
Today marks the 100th birthday of literary icon Beverly Cleary, the author of more than 40 books. Her classic characters, such as Henry Huggins, Beezus and Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse have entertained generations of readers. Celebrations have been held around the country, including an interview (link) by Jenna Bush Hager on the Today Show...
(snip)
And from the Horn Book Magazine:
http://www.hbook.com/2016/04/blogs/out-of-the-box/todays-the-day-happy-100th-birthday-beverly-cleary/
(includes links to many articles - including "Beverly Cleary's letter to Louis Darling's widow, Lois, with a Horn Book connection.")
And, as it happens, had illustrator Louis Darling lived, he would be turning 100 on April 26th! Sadly, he died of cancer at age 53. He was well known for illustrating Cleary's books - and he also worked on Oliver Butterworth's "The Enormous Egg" and Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." Cleary dedicated the book "Runaway Ralph" to him, which he also illustrated.
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Rec/rec.arts.books.childrens/2006-04/msg00028.html
(my birthday post to Cleary in 2006)
Excerpts:
She lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, near the golfers' Pebble
Beach, Otis Redding's Monterey, and John Steinbeck's Salinas.
www.beverlycleary.com/
(there's a real Klickitat Street!)
From the New York Post: In all her books, Cleary says, she's always stuck to one rule: "I never reform anybody. Because when I was growing up, I didn't like to read about boys and girls who learned to be better boys and girls.")
http://imdb.com/name/nm0165823/
(filmography)
On November 12, 2003, Cleary was awarded the National Medal of Arts at
the White House.
From Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement: ...she had very clear ideas about what she did not want to read: "Any book in which a child accepted the wisdom of an adult and reformed, any book in which a child reformed at all.... [and] any book in which education was disguised like a pill in a spoonful of jelly." In her Regina Medal acceptance speech, she spoke bitterly about a book that she thought was a "real" story, but which turned out to be a phonics lesson in the end. She said the author had "cheated" her. "He had used a story to try to teach me. I bitterly resented this intrusion into my life."
From the Horn Book: "When I wrote Dear Mr. Henshaw, I did not expect every reader to like Leigh as much as Ramona. Although I am deeply touched that my books have reached two generations of children, popularity has never been my goal. If it had been, I would have written Ramona Solves the Mystery of the Haunted House and Finds a Baby Brother or something like Henry and Beezus Play Doctor, instead of a book about the feelings of a lonely child of divorce."
(end of excerpts)
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(videos)
Lenona.