Henry Huggins and the many books that followed were meant to be an antidote to the sugary, sentimental children’s stories that were fashionable in the 1950s Cleary was writing about real children. It was 1950 and Cleary was a school librarian, writing her first book, at the urging of a little boy who marched up to her and demanded, "Where are the books about kids like us?" "It occurred to me that all the children appeared to be only children," recalled Cleary. But when Cleary passed away on Thursday at age 104, Ramona was left as her most iconic creation. She first appeared as a minor character in the Henry Huggins books by beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary. Ramona Quimby was not meant to be a main character, not at first. Life was so interesting that she had to find out what happened next. "I’m not pestering," protested Ramona, who never meant to pester.
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