Beloved children's author Beverly Cleary has passed away, at the age of 104. To celebrate the occasion of her centennial, on April 12, 2016, The Horn Book Magazine's March/April issue devoted a series of articles to "Beverly Cleary at 100."

• "The Real Ramona" by David Reuther, longtime Cleary editor and publisher
• Nonfiction author — and Friend of Beverly — Elaine Scott's "Telling the Truth While Making Things Up"
• Varian Johnson's secret girlfriend: "Dear Mrs. Cleary"
• Ame Dyckman gets tough with the mailman: "You Don't DO That to Beverly Cleary!"
• "Ramona in the 21st-Century Library"  by Julie Roach 
• Kate Messner: "Everyone Needs a Ramona"
• "Beverly Cleary and the Art of Growing Up" by Kurtis Scaletta
• Tony DiTerlizzi on Cleary illustrator Louis Darling: "Once Upon a Time It Was 1950" and Beverly Cleary's letter to Louis Darling's widow, Lois
• "The Boy Ramona" by Megan Dowd Lambert (2010) 

See also this wonderful exchange:

• Paul O. Zelinsky, illustrator of Cleary's Newbery Medal-winning Dear Mr. Henshaw, gets schooled: "Dear Mr. Zelinsky": "Our class would like to know why you drew people smoking."

And for Ramona super-fans, The Art of Ramona Quimby: Sixty Five Years of Illustrations from Beverly Cleary's Beloved Books by Anna Katz "will be catnip (hi, Picky-picky)." Full obituary to come in an upcoming Horn Book Magazine.

ART: Lolly Robinson.