That sounds a little bit like a grown-up Ramona the Pest on a melancholy day. I wish Cleary and McMurtry well on their journeys through the cosmos. And I will end this right now, right here.

Beverly Cleary, who contemporized children’s literature with books like “Ramona the Pest” and “Henry and Beezus” and become one of the best-selling children’s authors of all time, died ...

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Ramona Quimby, once known as Ramona the Pest, is the kind of child that drives her elders to the brink. If they could only understand that the hair full of burs which must be cut out one by one ...

When Miss Young began reading “Ramona the Pest” aloud, I was transported to a world that felt familiar and entirely new. Growing up below the poverty level in Utah, books were a rarity in our ...

Ramona and Beezus, director Elizabeth Allen’s big-screen mashup of Beverly Cleary’s series of books about the most beguiling young pest in Portland, Ore., looks like a detergent commercial.

Author Beverly Cleary immortalized this mistake in her children's book Ramona the Pest. Misheard lyrics are known as mondegreens, a term that dates back to 1954.

Cleary was 104. During her career, she sold more than 90 million copies of her books, most of which chronicled the adventures of Ramona (the Pest) Quimby, her big sister Beezus, Henry Huggins and ...