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.
BEVERLY CLEARYI 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.
More Beverly Cleary Quotes
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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.
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I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.
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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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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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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.
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I read my books aloud before they were published.
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I was an only child; I didn’t have a sister, or sisters.
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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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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 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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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.
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I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
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I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.
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