These two books are part of a classic series from the 1950s and 1960s. According to the books' forewords, Miroslav Sasek was inspired ...

This is my last post in my series of reviews about Beverly Cleary's Young Adult novels. This book was actually the first one publi...

Barbara Maclane is sixteen years old, and has barely begun to have an interest in boys. She sometimes walks home with Tootie Bodger, a t...

Judy Scuppernong is a short book of poetry about one summer in Fitzgerald, Georgia in the early 1950s. Judy Scupholm is the exciting, outgo...

Mildred and Sam and Their Babies is an easy reader designated as Level 2, "Reading with Help." It's the story of a mouse ...

I read the 1991 edition of this book when I was around 12 or 13, but all I could remember before sitting down to read it this time was t...

Beverly Cleary, who just turned 95 on April 12th, has had a long and admirable career writing for children. She is the author of the...