She 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.
BEVERLY CLEARYMy mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
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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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Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
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I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
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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.
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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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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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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 very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
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Didn’t the people who made those license plates care about little girls named Ramona?
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I don’t ever go on the Internet. I don’t even know how it works.
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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 just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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