My Own Two Feet
A Memoir
New York : Avon Books, [1996]
Format: Book
Description: vi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Follows the popular children's author through college years during the Depression; jobs including that of librarian; marriage; and writing and publication of her first book, "Henry Huggins."
Contents:
I. Friends, hopes, exams : Bus trip to a new life ; A new family, an old house ; "Chaffey, where the fronded palm ..." ; Fun and family ; Desperation and inspiration ; Life with a P.E. major ; Cooperation ; Fun at Cal ; My intellectual life ; Two vacations ; Clarence and the comprehensive -- II. Children, customers, soldiers : Library school ; A job and a wedding ; The Sather Gate Book Shop ; I meet the army ; My war with the army ; A house, a cat, a letter.
Subjects:
Cleary, Beverly -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women librarians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Authors, American -- Juvenile literature.
Cleary, Beverly -- Childhood and youth -- Juvenile literature.
Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women librarians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Authors, American -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
0380727463
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Cleary, Beverly | Main (Downtown) | Available by placing a hold, Repository - Children's | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Cleary, Beverly | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Children's Biography | In |
Continuation of: A girl from Yamhill.
"An Avon Camelot Book."
Originally published: New York : Morrow Junior Books, ©1995.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.1 11.
"An Avon Camelot Book."
Originally published: New York : Morrow Junior Books, ©1995.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning MG 7.1 11.