It seems her books were as popular in the U.S. as Blyton's were in the U.K. decades earlier but I'm not familiar with them either.Reza wrote:Sorry to say never heard of her. Was she the equivalent of Enid Blyton?
The difference between the two authors seems to be that Cleary was a genuinely nice person while Blyton was a monster in real life. The 2009 British TV movie of her life starring Helena Bonham Carter as the woman loved other people's children but not her own and who drove her husband to drink while using a syndicate to write her later books seems like something that should be better known.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1397265/reference