With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
BEVERLY CLEARYIf you don’t see the book you want on the shelves, write it.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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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I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.
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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 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.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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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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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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What interests me is what children go through while 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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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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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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Children want to do what grownups do.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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