Anyone who was ever a child has probably read at least one Beverly Cleary book, and most of us have read far more than that. “Although Cleary’s 39 books have not achieved the quick sales numbers of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (120 million copies) or Lemony Snicket’s books (50 million), they’ve never gone out of print. And since 1950, when Cleary’s first children’s novel, Henry Huggins, was published, she has sold more than 90 million copies.” Now, at age 90, she has finally agreed to allow her popular “Ramona” series to be made into a movie, but is zealously guarding the character against the rampant commercialization she so detests.