We didn’t have television in those days, and many people didn’t even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.
BEVERLY CLEARYI had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom – there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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In my grammar school years back in the 1920s I used my ten-cents-a-week allowance for Saturday matinees of Douglas Fairbanks movies. All that swashbuckling and leaping about in the midst of the sails of ships!
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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 didn’t start out writing to give children hope, but I’m glad some of them found it.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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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If we finished our work, the teacher would say, ‘Now don’t read ahead.’ But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I’ve written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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She means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
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