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 CLEARYShe means well, but she always manages to do the wrong thing. She has a real talent for it.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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What interests me is what children go through while growing up.
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I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.
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If she can’t spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
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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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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 have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother’s cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.
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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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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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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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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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As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be ‘better’ children.
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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.
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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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