Almost Everyone Can Agree On Wishing Author Beverly Cleary A Happy 100th Birthday

“Cleary tried to drop out of school in the first grade. But her parents forced her to keep going, and Cleary eventually excelled in school and in college and found a job as a librarian in Yakima, Wash. A boy there complained that there weren’t any books about kids like him. In response, Cleary sat down and wrote about Henry Huggins and his dog.”