He was dressed as if everything he wore had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except that the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
BEVERLY CLEARYShe was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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Children want to do what grownups do.
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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Don’t stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don’t forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the right books to read.
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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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Today I discovered two kinds of people who go to high school: those who wear new clothes to show off on the first day, and those who wear their oldest clothes to show they think school is unimportant.
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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I feel sometimes that in children’s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don’t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
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