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Ok our 6th grade English teacher told us to do a report and i got Beverly Cleary!:((Our rough draft is due 2morrow and i dont know what her parents names were!!!!Plz help me if u give me the answer i will pick u as best answer and if u add a little more info that would be gr8 too!!!Thanx:))Oh and does anyone know if she had any brothers or sisters and how old they were?!?!Well if u know plz answer my question and i will be sure to pick u as best answer!!Thanx:))

2007-03-05 11:19:29 · 3 answers · asked by Ashlynnmarie.<3 3 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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Her parents, Chester Lloyd and Mable Atlee Bunn, ran an 80-acre farm in Yamhill, Oregon, and were active in the small community.
I found this here:
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/classic_literature/42093

Also check this one out it has lots of good info and it's easy to read. http://www.beverlycleary.com/beverlycleary/index.html
"...own story is as lively and irresistible as any of her novels. She was born Beverly Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon, and, until she was old enough to attend school, lived on a farm in Yamhill, a town so small it had no library. Her mother arranged with the State Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a lodge room upstairs over a bank. Beverly learned to love books there."


I couldn't find anything about any brothers or sisters but she did have kids according to this page:
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/clearybio.htm

2007-03-05 11:28:32 · answer #1 · answered by Amy J 3 · 2 1

Beverly's life began on April 12, 1916, in McMinnville, Oregon. Her parents, Chester Lloyd and Mable Atlee Bunn, ran an 80-acre farm in Yamhill, Oregon, and were active in the small community. Although her parents gave her little physical affection, Beverly enjoyed a happy childhood. She roamed the farm freely by day and listened to her mother's stories at night. Since Yamhill did not yet have a library, Mable Bunn told her daughter remembered fairy tales and experiences from her own childhood. In later years, Mable helped to get a library for Yamhill, and became its librarian. Beverly, like most people in Yamhill, owned few books. As a result, reading was not one of her girlhood hobbies.
That changed, however, when the Bunn family moved to Portland, Oregon, in the early 1920s. Beverly's parents enrolled her in a local school, thus beginning her formal education. Used to the freedom of farm life, she did not take well to sitting still in a classroom and taking orders from a stern teacher. To make matters worse, the other students read much better than she did. When she contracted smallpox, she missed school, and became even farther behind. She hated reading the boring primers, and had almost written off books forever, when she finally discovered Lucy Fitch Perkins's The Dutch Twins. She devoured the book, realizing that she loved to read. It was not long before she had read every children's book in the city's library. As she grew, books became her way to escape from her strained relationship with her mother and the financial hardships the Depression brought.

2007-03-05 19:34:07 · answer #2 · answered by glittercrazy123 4 · 2 0

ann andy no siss or bros

2007-03-05 19:23:24 · answer #3 · answered by mman 2 · 0 0

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