<story><title>Beverly Cleary has died</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/beverly-cleary-dead/2021/03/26/afee8588-0aed-11e6-a6b6-2e6de3695b0e_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>linguae</author><text>Reading her books was one of the best parts about my childhood.  I read my first Ramona book when I was in third grade (though I forgot the specific book).  I feel in love with characters like Ramona, Beezus, and Henry, and I ended up reading every book in the Henry&amp;#x2F;Beezus&amp;#x2F;Ramona series that was published at the time (which ended at Ramona Forever, though there&amp;#x27;s another book, Ramona&amp;#x27;s World, that was published after I outgrew the series).  Though I haven&amp;#x27;t touched a Ramona book in about 22 years, I still vividly remember the characters and the Alan Tiegreen illustrations.  Beverly Cleary also wrote another series of books that I love featuring a hotel-dwelling mouse named Ralph that was given a toy motorcycle.  I still have my copies of &amp;quot;Ramona Quimby, Age 8&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Ralph S. Mouse&amp;quot; somewhere.</text></comment>
<story><title>Beverly Cleary has died</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/beverly-cleary-dead/2021/03/26/afee8588-0aed-11e6-a6b6-2e6de3695b0e_story.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mikepurvis</author><text>Suggestion for a popup&amp;#x2F;paywall-free alternative link: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;311881785&amp;#x2F;beverly-cleary-creator-of-ramona-quimby-dies-at-104&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.npr.org&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;311881785&amp;#x2F;beverly-cleary-crea...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Currently the story points to the Washington Post.)</text></comment>