Henshaw,” about lonely Leigh Botts, the new kid who writes to his favorite author as his parents go through a divorce. The big award came in 1984, when Cleary won the Newbery Medal for her poignant novel “Dear Mr. “It crossed my mind that mouse was just the right size to ride that little motorcycle,” Cleary said to PBS.
When she got back home, a neighbor showed her a mouse that had fallen into garden bucket. Mouse and his motorcycle adventures – came to Cleary after watching Malcolm play with model cars while sick in bed on a trip. The idea for “The Mouse and the Motorccyle” – about house mouse Ralph S. She was later inspired by her own children, twins Malcolm and Marianne. More: 50 Black YA authors you should read, from Angie Thomas to Walter Dean Myers
“My mother wanted to teach me, but I felt, well, why should I when she can read to me?” When Cleary started school, she was placed in the lowest-level reading group.Ĭleary’s eventual passion for literature overcame her small-town roots and she attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she met future husband, Clarence Cleary, and the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington, Seattle.ĭuring her time as a librarian, Cleary was inspired to write for the kids who frequented her library in Yakima, Washington. “That’s where I learned to write for children, standing up and telling the story,” Cleary said in her 2016 OPB interview. “I didn’t read the story, I told it.”
“I had resisted learning to read,” Cleary said. In a 2016 interview with Oregon Public Broadcasting for the special “ Discovering Beverly Cleary,” the author said she had so little interest in reading when she was a child, she at first refused to learn.
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