Yuma Public Library

Follows the popular children's author through college years during the Depression; jobs including that of librarian; marriage; and writing and publication of her first book "Henry Huggins."

Provides information about the childhood, education, and career of children's book author Beverly Cleary, creator of the Ramona Quimby character.

Funny and totally true childhood biographies and full-color illustrations tell the tales from the challenging yet defining growing-up years of J. K. Rowling, Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, and 12 other great writers.

"A beautifully illustrated children's biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Portland to her years as a librarian and an eventual children's book writer. The debut book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series of notable people from the Pacific Northwest"--