A Girl From Yamhill

born as Beverly Bunn on a small farm in Yamhill, on April 12, 1916.

the Bunn family leaves it's farm in Yamhill, to live in Portland, Oregon.

in the second grade, seven-year old Beverly begins her life-long love of books.

the librarian at her school encourages eight year old Beverly to have a career in writing, seeing how much she loved books.

She moved to Ontario, California to attend Chaffey college, where she got an associate of arts degree. she then went to university of California, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1938, and then went to the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington, and got a degree in Library Science in 1939.

Beverly Bunn becomes Beverly Cleary when she marries Clarence Cleary.They eloped, because her Presbyterian parents did not approve of her getting married to a catholic, before or after the marriage.

Her first book, 'Henry Huggins', was published in 1950, and is a book about a boy, his dog, and his friends.

the book many people know her for, Beezus and Ramona, is published the same year her kids are born

in 1955, the clearys have two kids, Marianne Elizabeth, and Malcolm James, who were twins

Ramona and her Father is awarded Newbery Honors in 1978.