The Washington Post, May 8th, 1988
A GIRL FROM YAMHILL A Memoir By Beverly Cleary Illustrated with photographs Morrow. 320 pp. $14.95 BEVERLY CLEARY has done something generous and useful for her many admirers: she has written the story of her own childhood. Here she is on the book's jacket, 6 years old but nevertheless entirely recognizable, her expression watchful, intelligent and a little reserved, with the guarded smile of a junior Mona Lisa. The photograph could be of her own Ramona Quimby, if Ramona Quimby were real. It doesn't take long to see that Ramona Quimby's high level of reality comes directly from Beverly Cleary'...
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