"Cleary is adept at taking everyday events and making the reader see the humor and delight in simple things. Everyone will want to visit with this old friend."

— Sharon Salluzzo, Children’s Literature

"America’s favorite author for children…her sharp recollections of the complex feelings of childhood and her ability to relate those feelings in a way that is both humorous and comforting to the reader make her work ever popular with children and adults."

— Joanne Kelly, The Beverly Cleary Handbook

"Who is Beverly Cleary? She is the author who has made books exciting to children – hundreds and thousands and generations of children. How can you repay Beverly Cleary for such an outstanding contribution?"

— Caroline Feller Bauer, Horn Book Magazine

"[Beverly Cleary] has the rare gift of being able to reveal us to ourselves while keeping an arm around our shoulder... Cleary is able to sketch clearly with a few perfect strokes the inexplicable adult world as seen through a child’s eyes."

— Katherine Paterson, Washington Post Book World

"[Beverly Cleary’s] impact as a children’s book writer cannot be overestimated…her sensitive, penetrating awareness of individual children and their needs endures."

— Cathryn M. Mercier, Twentieth-Century Children’s Writers