On Monday, April 11th, Beverly Cleary turned 100.  “She is still her good old self, telling us, for example, that she didn’t turn a hundred on purpose and that she will be celebrating with carrot cake – just the kind of thing you’d expect her to say,” reports the New Yorker.  She admits to The New York Times that Ramona is her favorite character:  “I was a well-behaved girl,” she says, “but I …

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